Model Lauren Wasser, 28, lost the lower part of her right leg in 2012 after contracting Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) while using a tampon, but she hasn't let that stop her from modeling.

Last year she appeared in an activewear campaign for Nordstrom, which she called her "first real job back in the modeling game," and just this weekend she made her New York Fashion Week debut walking the runway for Chromat.

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I was lucky enough to score a front-row seat at this season's Chromat show and witnessed Wasser strut down the runway in person. Apart from Wasser's casting, there were a lot of amazing and unusual things going on at the Chromat show this season that caught my attention.

1. The clothes. They were colorful, sexy, graphic, and editorial, but also much more wearable than in seasons past.

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2. The light show. Most runway shows are pretty dull, especially after you've been going to them for 10 years like I have — just a bunch of models walking in a straight line. But the Chromat show felt like an event. Thanks to a collaboration with Intel, the show featured a light-up runway entrance and models in light-up dresses.

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3. The racial diversity of the models. Unlike at just about every other fashion show, white models did not dominate the runway at Chromat. In fact there were hardly any white models in the show at all. Instead, Chromat cast a wide range of women — black, white, Asian, Latina, and a number of mixed-race models who were difficult to classify one way or the other. Not that this is anything new for Chromat. Designer Becca McCharen has made diversity a priority on her runways for a long time now — but after attending a dozen or so shows before this one that were overwhelmingly white, the diversity of Chromat's runway definitely made an impression.

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4. The size diversity of the models. There are only a handful of designers who cast larger women in their shows — women who are closer to a size 12 than a size 2 — and when they do it, they usually only cast one. Chromat had two such models in their most recent show — Sabina Karlsson and Denise Bidot — and they didn't just walk in the show, they opened and closed it, respectively. It was awesome.

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With all that going on, I'm going to confess that Wasser's gold prosthetic leg managed to fly under my radar. Maybe I would have noticed if Wasser had been walking differently than all the other models, but she wasn't. As far as I can remember, there was absolutely nothing unusual about her gait. She moved just like everyone else. She wasn't a model with a prosthetic leg — not that day at that show, not to me. She was a model. Period.

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