--- title: Tiffany Trump NYFW Front Row Snub description: Find out what really happened with Tiffany Trump's NYFW front row snub. canonical: https://time.com/4674470/tiffany-trump-nyfw-snub-fashion-editor/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-17T14:58:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:51.733Z og:title: What Really Happened During Tiffany Trump's NYFW 'Snub' og:description: According to the fashion writer who tweeted about it og:url: https://time.com/4674470/tiffany-trump-nyfw-snub-fashion-editor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c7e49ab0d3e97a4/6988bac1ed2d8d4d8a8a89c7/tiffany-trump-phillip-plein.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4928 og:image:height: 2772 og:image:alt: Philipp Plein Fall/Winter 2017/2018 Women's And Men's Fashion Show - Front Row og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What Really Happened During Tiffany Trump's NYFW 'Snub' twitter:description: According to the fashion writer who tweeted about it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c7e49ab0d3e97a4/6988bac1ed2d8d4d8a8a89c7/tiffany-trump-phillip-plein.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # What Really Happened During Tiffany Trump's NYFW 'Snub' > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Andrew Toth/Getty Images for Philip Plein) NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 13: Tiffany Trump (C) attends the Front Row for the Philipp Plein Fall/Winter 2017/2018 Women's And Men's Fashion Show at The New York Public Library on February 13, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Toth/Getty Images for Philip Plein) Andrew Toth—Getty Images for Philip Plein by [Diana Pearl / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Diana Pearl / People Contributor Feb 17, 2017 2:58 PM UTC The fashion writer who caused a social media storm after tweeting that ‘nobody wants to sit next to Tiffany Trump’ at [Philipp Plein](http://people.com/style/kylie-jenner-madonna-and-more-philipp-plein-just-put-on-the-craziest-show-of-fashion-week/)‘s New York Fashion Week show now says that President Donald Trump’s youngest daughter wasn’t actually snubbed. Christina Binkley, a former _Wall Street Journal_ fashion columnist, tells PEOPLE that after the two women seated next to Trump left, the seats remained unoccupied for two minutes or less – and Trump seemed unaware. “She was surrounded by photographers, and the two women who moved were leaning away — they clearly didn’t want to be in those photographs,” says Binkley, who was seated a few seats down from the first daughter. She adds: “But I don’t think Tiffany really noticed that, because she was active with her friends and the photographers.” However, Nikki Ogunnaike, senior fashion editor at _Elle_, tweeted that the show started late due to chaotic seating changes, with editors at the show “fleeing” so they wouldn’t have to sit around Tiffany. (Her account is now private.) In response to a similar tweet from Alyssa Vingan Klein, editor-in-chief of Fashionista.com, Ogunnaike said she was with others down the hall. > [](https://twitter.com/BinkleyOnStyle/status/831329362435772420) > [](https://twitter.com/BinkleyOnStyle/status/831329705961857028) Later on, just before the show began, executives from Philipp Plein came over to ask the current occupants to clear the seats for Plein’s family members, including his sister and girlfriend, Binkley says. “It’s easy to assume from a photograph that she sat there, humiliated, with empty seats by her, which wasn’t the case,” Binkley says. The incident made headlines and led to [Whoopi Goldberg](http://people.com/politics/tiffany-trump-accepts-whoopi-goldbergs-invitation-to-sit-with-her-at-nyfw-after-being-shunned-by-fashion-editors/) offering to sit next to Trump, 23, later this week. Plein himself also defended her. “Tiffany Trump is not a politician, she’s a teenager,” Plein told [_TMZ_](http://www.tmz.com/2017/02/16/philipp-plein-tiffany-trump-humiliated-fashion-week/). Binkley adds: “No one was mentioning Trump or addressing the Trump family directly. This was the only real Trump clash I encountered the whole week.” > [](https://twitter.com/BinkleyOnStyle/status/832242663785127940) Other photos show Trump with no empty seats around her. Binkley says that if she had known that her tweets would gain traction after posting, she would have followed up sooner on what happened after the show. Though NYFW was more political this year than Binkley has ever seen it, she says no designers mentioned the president or the Trump administration specifically in their shows. _This_ [_article_](http://people.com/politics/what-really-happened-during-tiffany-trumps-nyfw-snub-according-to-the-fashion-writer-who-tweeted-the-photos/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4674470/tiffany-trump-nyfw-snub-fashion-editor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4674470/tiffany-trump-nyfw-snub-fashion-editor/"},"headline":"What Really Happened During Tiffany Trump's NYFW 'Snub'","datePublished":"2017-02-17T14:58:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:51.733Z","description":"According to the fashion writer who tweeted about it","url":"https://time.com/4674470/tiffany-trump-nyfw-snub-fashion-editor/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c7e49ab0d3e97a4/6988bac1ed2d8d4d8a8a89c7/tiffany-trump-phillip-plein.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Diana Pearl / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c7e49ab0d3e97a4/6988bac1ed2d8d4d8a8a89c7/tiffany-trump-phillip-plein.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Philipp Plein Fall/Winter 2017/2018 Women's And Men's Fashion Show - Front Row","caption":"Philipp Plein Fall/Winter 2017/2018 Women's And Men's Fashion Show - Front Row","creditText":"Andrew Toth—Getty Images for Philip Plein","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4674470/tiffany-trump-nyfw-snub-fashion-editor/","name":"What Really Happened During Tiffany Trump's NYFW 'Snub'"}}]}] ```