Fashion Goes High School?

Style.com recently posted about the new cliques in the fashion world. There are the:
New Bohemians

(starring indie darlings like my archenemy Leigh Lezark, Tara Subkoff, and Waris Ahluwalia),

European Union

( beautiful foreigners like Vladimir and Julia Roitfeld, Margherita Missoni and Stavros Niarchos),

Swans 2.0

(with socialites Tinsley and Lauren Santo Domingo)

Art Crowd

Cat Walk Queens

and the "New Kids on the Blog."

I would like to know when exactly fashion became more about the "SCENE" and not the clothes, the work, the fashion.