Professional skanktress Ashley Dupre caused quite the scene when she planted herself front and center at designer Yigal Azrouël’s Fashion Week show last week. The designer was so incensed by Dupre’s presence that he fired his PR firm for letting her in.

As reported Saturday in the Daily News, Ashley Dupre may be a hooker with a heart of gold, but designer Yigal Azrouël didn’t want her at his show. Azrouël was so upset with Eliot Spitzer’s infamous call girl perching in his Fall/Winter 2009 front row seats, that he fired front-of-house PR company People’s Revolution.

A no-nonsense, late night press release announced the news: “Following the showing of his Fall Winter 2009 Collection, Yigal Azrouël has decided to fire front-of-house PR Company, People’s Revolution, for mismanagement.”

“Yes, I was fired by Yigal Azrouël,” People’s Revolution founder Kelly Cutrone told us Friday night at the Mercedes-Benz fashion week kickoff party. “I didn’t invite her, but I wasn’t going to kick her out or turn her away. We know one another, we’re friends.”

“The City” star and Dupre met back in the days when Dupre was still looking for a publicist — she is currently managed by Susan Blond, Inc. — and the two keep in touch. “If Ashley had shown up at Marc Jacobs’ show,” Cutrone continued, “he would have been a hero. It would have been cutting-edge — but Yigal and she weren’t the best fit.”

[From the New York Daily News]

Clearly it wasn’t all bad for Yigal Azrouël – he got some extra free press for Dupre’s presence. In fact if you search for his name on WENN’s photo site, the Dupre’s image comes up as the thumbnail for the whole event.

Dupre is great at rationalizing her past. Eliot Spitzer’s former hooker told Diane Sawyer that “This wasn’t any different than going on a date with someone you barely knew and hooking up with them,” she reasoned. “The only difference is I can pay my rent…” Classy lady. She also claimed to be terrified that people would find out what she did for a living – though she’s clearly done a good job of exploiting it left and right after the fact.

I don’t blame Yigal Azrouël – I wouldn’t want Ashley Dupre at my event either. On the other hand, his PR people sure did their jobs – he’s competing against a ton of other designers for mainstream press coverage, and he got it. I wouldn’t fire them for that.

Here’s Ashley Dupre, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Lorenzo Martone, Andre Leon Talley, Katie Lee Joel, Fabiola Beracasa and Genevieve Jones, and Yigal Azrouel at his Fashion Week show on Friday. Images thanks to WENN.