Bloggers have no space limits, usually no sub editors and few rules.We also provide a backbone for dialogue with our readers and this is one aspect of the medium that I am finding fascinating at the moment - the reactions by some designers to the (relatively) unfettered commentaries from the public.
Some, like Alex Perry, say they are "thick-skinned" - and the frequent flack is like water off a duck's back.
Others, I can tell you, aren't quite so bolshie.
All I can say to them is, deal with it.
The public are the end users of what you are showing on these runways, they have a right to their point of view.
Now sitting down inside the venue - one very long, snaking front row that runs from the front to the back of the STC.
To bad Cate Blanchett isn't on deck yet here.
It's little consolation I suppose, but I've just brushed past a couple of Oz popettes.
"We could sit you over there next to them - you could be the third Veronica" quipped Lorrai...
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