The celebrity photographer who has made a career out of sneaking into fashion shows

The best way to sneak into a fashion show is to be confident and friendly — at least according to Dan Bassini, who has been photographing New York Fashion Week for almost a decade, without being on the guest lists.

You might catch the New Jersey-based photographer on the street taking celebrity portraits of the likes of Heidi Klum, Doja Cat or Dove Cameron, but he also makes his way inside shows, snapping front-row pictures despite being unaccredited — which is how this writer met him, at an Elena Velez runway last year. Once, he even managed to snag a spot behind the familiar sleek bob of Anna Wintour at a Coach show.

“I’ve never really broken the law to go in — I’ve never climbed in a bathroom window,” he joked in a video call. Though he has found the odd side door, left open and unmon