Fashion designer Christian Siriano, who likes to vogue when posing for pictures with fans, does so with Lynne Hippeau.

“If Christian walked down Elm Street, people would faint,” said Lynne Hippeau about fashion designer Christian Siriano’s visit to New Canaan for a trunk show at L’Amoire.

That was pretty much the consensus among the fans of the Season 4 Project Runway winner who stopped by the store to check out his fall line. And it’s true, Siriano’s skinny skinny black jeans with their superfluous zippers, paired with his patent leather Oxford shoes and angular hair cut would likely stop some residents of this quaint suburban enclave in their tracks – to say nothing of his flamboyant (read: sooo gay) charm.

“You’re shaking up New Canaan, I just want you to know that,” Hippeau told the 23-year-old upstart. Hippeau herself was dressed in a country-club friendly coral and tangerine striped sweater and innocuous pair of blue jeans. She had Siriano pick out a ruffle-fronted black dress as a birthday present for her daughter – he even signed the card.

While Siriano’s fans found his appearance in town to be wonderfully blashphemous, the designer himself found the experience to be more of a relief from the demands of the “divas” he regularly caters to.

“I like this town. The people are so nice here, so supportive.”

Diane Roth, owner of L’Amoire, says Siriano’s fashions will fit in just fine.

“You can wear this to Gates for a nice dinner; you can hop the train and go into New York.”

That’s what people do here: put on alpaca cashmere coats and go out to eat. Maybe Siriano isn’t really shaking things up that much at all.

His fall line will be for sale in L’Amoire starting in June, we’ll see what happens then.