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Bonnets are back in fashion - and Dutton’s crime crusade · The Front

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  Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
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  Speaker 1: It's Friday, May seventeen. Peter Dutton is proposing a dramatic
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  Speaker 1: federal intervention into the criminal justice system to make Australian safer,
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  Speaker 1: including tougher knife laws, a crackdown on bail and new
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  Speaker 1: Commonwealth laws prohibiting domestic violence offenders using digital technology to
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  Speaker 1: stalk or control their victims. Coming up later in the episode,
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  Speaker 1: We've got a Friday treat for you, a dive into
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  Speaker 1: the glamour and the silliness of Australian Fashion Week, which
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  Speaker 1: has just wrapped. Our expert from Vogue Australia tells us
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  Speaker 1: why we might all be wearing bonnets before too long,
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  Speaker 1: and why even in today's tough economic climate, designers think
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  Speaker 1: it's worthwhile spending one hundred thousand dollars or more to
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  Speaker 1: stage a runway shop. Stay with us.
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  Speaker 2: I give a call to the Honorable the Leader of
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  Speaker 2: the Opposition.
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  Speaker 1: If the Federal budget is a bit like school speech night,
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  Speaker 1: with everyone wearing their best suits and making very important speeches.
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  Speaker 1: The Thursday after budget is muck up Day, when the
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  Speaker 1: kids get to go a bit wild. Jim Chalmers delivered
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  Speaker 1: a big, ambitious budget on Tuesday designed to ease the
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  Speaker 1: cost of living, crush inflation and get labor re elected.
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  Speaker 1: And on Thursday night muck up Day, Peter Dutton got
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  Speaker 1: to deliver his budget in reply. When you're in opposition,
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  Speaker 1: you don't actually have to make all the numbers add
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  Speaker 1: up like the government does. You can use the platform
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  Speaker 1: to go beyond budget policy and go big on vision.
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  Speaker 1: Last year Peter Dutton used his budget in reply to
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  Speaker 1: make the case for nuclear power. This year, Dutton's gone
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  Speaker 1: for another big theme, the safety of women and everyone
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  Speaker 1: in our society.
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  Speaker 2: The Coalition government will provide much needed leadership in tackling
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  Speaker 2: knife crime. We will work with states and territories to
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  Speaker 2: develop uniform knife laws across all jurisdictions. Laws which will
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  Speaker 2: give police the powers to stop and search using detective
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  Speaker 2: ones like Queensland's Jack's Law, and laws which will limit
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  Speaker 2: and restrict the sale and possession of knives to minors
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  Speaker 2: and dangerous individuals.
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  Speaker 1: Dutton is calling on his law and order credentials.
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  Speaker 2: As a former police officer. The horrific scenes of beaten
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  Speaker 2: women and distraught children I encountered stay with me to
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  Speaker 2: this day, as do the memories of taking women who
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  Speaker 2: are shaking with fear to shelters and safe homes and
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  Speaker 2: helping them relocate with their children to safety.
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  Speaker 1: Dutton's promising a radical overhaul of the way crime and justice,
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  Speaker 1: which are usually left to the states and territories, will
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  Speaker 1: be handled. He's promising to tighten bail laws, but hasn't
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  Speaker 1: said how he'll get the labor states to fall into line.
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  Speaker 2: Recently, Molly Tyshurst, a twenty eight year old mother from
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  Speaker 2: New South Wales, was murdered because her violent expartner was
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  Speaker 2: on bailed. A coalition government will make it in fence
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  Speaker 2: to use mobile phones and computer networks to cause an
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  Speaker 2: intimate partner or family member fear for their personal safety,
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  Speaker 2: to track them using spywaar, or to engage in coercive behaviors.
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  Speaker 2: We will toughen the bail laws that apply to these
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  Speaker 2: Newcommonwealth offenses.
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  Speaker 1: The Budget in reply is also a platform to seledge
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  Speaker 1: the government.
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  Speaker 2: This labor government has made life so much tougher for Australians.
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  Speaker 2: This labor government has set our country on a very
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  Speaker 2: dangerous course. It started with Prime Minister's Voice referendum. Not
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  Speaker 2: only did it waste four hundred and fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 2: which could have helped families with the cost of living
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  Speaker 2: pressures that you're now facing. The referendum also divided our nation. You,
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  Speaker 2: your family, your children, and our country can't afford another
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  Speaker 2: three years of this government. I know how to make
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  Speaker 2: decisions to get our country back on track.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a big week for politics and crime. So
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  Speaker 1: join us as we put one stiletto in front of
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  Speaker 1: the other and strut right into fashion week. Don't forget
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  Speaker 1: we'll be back after this break. Hello, thanks the jaws.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot wait to see what the girls are wearing.
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  Speaker 4: What are you wearing? What do you wear?
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  Speaker 1: What's a fashion trend that you can't get enough of?
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  Speaker 1: My sunglasses adult Chaninkavanna from designer i Ouf a one.
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  Speaker 2: This is for the Eric Vaughn Show.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing white Sands today.
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  Speaker 3: Follow on my show.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's gonna be naked pretty much, except they
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  Speaker 4: won't let me wear bikini because I'm only sea.
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  Speaker 1: Francisca Wallace's Bogustralia's digital director, Francisca, you've been down at
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  Speaker 1: fashion Week this week. What have you seen on the runway?
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  Speaker 4: First, there's lots going on, lots of emerging designers, which
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  Speaker 4: has been really really nice to see.
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  Speaker 3: Amy Lawrence was a standout for me.
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  Speaker 4: She's an incredible Melbourne based designer who was doing the
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  Speaker 4: most beautiful kind of structural gowns, these gorgeous little sort
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  Speaker 4: of head pieces and bonnets, which I think will become
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  Speaker 4: very popular. And Rory william Dockerty who's a New Zealand
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  Speaker 4: based designer who's doing some very interesting work with prints
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  Speaker 4: and layering and texture. I think both really exciting names for.
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  Speaker 3: Us to watch.
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  Speaker 4: Also, lots going on in the street because it is
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  Speaker 4: such an important part of fashion week now as well
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  Speaker 4: what goes on outside the shows. So yeah, lots of red,
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  Speaker 4: lots of Western and cowboy inspired outfits. There's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of metallics, a lot of sheer, a lot of little
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  Speaker 4: caps and hats.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen a story on Bogustralia about tiny hats, in
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  Speaker 1: particular leather berets. You mentioned bonnets. Are Australians willing to
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  Speaker 1: embrace the hat? Do you think in anything more than
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  Speaker 1: just a straw hat at the beach.
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  Speaker 4: I think we might be. I think the tide may
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  Speaker 4: be shifting on the hat. I'm for one, I'm very
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  Speaker 4: excited about that because I love a cap. I think
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  Speaker 4: the cap is the gateway hat into the rest of
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  Speaker 4: the hats.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a relief I was worrying about the bonnet.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, don't worry. That's the advance level. Everyone else can
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  Speaker 4: start with a cap and work their way upwards. This season,
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  Speaker 4: and what's been brewing over the last couple of years
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  Speaker 4: is a real sense of personal style. I think that's
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  Speaker 4: something that we talk about a lot of vogue, and
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  Speaker 4: we're really glad that it's permeated the kind of cultural conversation.
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  Speaker 4: And I do think that's a lot in part to TikTok,
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  Speaker 4: because that encourages individuality in a sense. It also encourages
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  Speaker 4: a lot of conformity, which is another element of it.
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  Speaker 4: But there's also this generation that are growing up with
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  Speaker 4: the idea that you know, you really want to express
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  Speaker 4: your personal style and they're sort of learning about personal
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  Speaker 4: style a lot earlier than I think many of us,
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  Speaker 4: and I know that I did.
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  Speaker 1: The past decade's biggest trend has been active were taking
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  Speaker 1: your joggers to work and the cocktail bar, maybe even
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  Speaker 1: with a sports bra and a bum bag. That's largely
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  Speaker 1: due to Pip Edwards, the designer behind at leisure label
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  Speaker 1: pe Nation. It's full of big, bold prints and Pip's
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  Speaker 1: own initials emblazed on everything. She's used this fashion week
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  Speaker 1: to relaunch the label completely.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want to introduce yourself?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you don't really need any iodn't.
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  Speaker 4: Like I'm Pep Edwards, the co founder and creative director
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  Speaker 4: of Peny Nation.
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  Speaker 3: What are you wearing? Are you tough? I am wearing
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  Speaker 3: pe Nation Naturally.
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  Speaker 1: Edwards is smart enough to use fashion week not as
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to flex but to sell.
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  Speaker 4: Peop is definitely a marketing genius and there was a
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  Speaker 4: lot of change with this collection. I think what we're
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  Speaker 4: seeing now is active wear as ready to wear.
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  Speaker 3: In Australa. We've been wearing active wears clothing for a
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  Speaker 3: long time.
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  Speaker 4: But what's different about this is it felt like there
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  Speaker 4: were more pieces that you could wear in the every
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  Speaker 4: day rather than just for exercising. There were also a
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  Speaker 4: lot less logos, the colors were a lot more muted.
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  Speaker 4: Who you kind of want these basics to work harder
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  Speaker 4: for you, and you can wear something like a pant
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  Speaker 4: or a legging or a short not just to work out,
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  Speaker 4: but you can also wear it and actually look really
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  Speaker 4: great wearing an out to lunch to dinner. So I
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  Speaker 4: don't think that's going anywhere. And Australians absolutely love a
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  Speaker 4: piece of active wear that can do double duty for them.
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  Speaker 1: This year marks the twenty eighth anniversary of Fashion Week.
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  Speaker 1: When it started, the buyers for department stores of London
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  Speaker 1: and New York were the most powerful forces, along with
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  Speaker 1: magazine editors. Now everything has changed. The power has shifted
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  Speaker 1: to online retailers like Netaporte and to influencers. The cost
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  Speaker 1: of staging a show is immense.
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  Speaker 4: I've heard of shows that have nudged into the six figures,
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  Speaker 4: over one hundred thousand dollars. More more than that, you
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  Speaker 4: have to pay for models, You have to pay for
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  Speaker 4: makeup artists, hair, there's seating, there's music, there's the whole
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  Speaker 4: av production that goes into it. You have to pay
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  Speaker 4: for something as simple as shoes can be extremely expensive
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  Speaker 4: if you don't make them yourself. And then there's of
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  Speaker 4: course all the pr and the marketing that goes into it,
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  Speaker 4: and the guest list and everything that creates a whole
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  Speaker 4: lot of management.
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  Speaker 3: So it's very expensive.
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  Speaker 4: It can be very confronting for a lot of especially
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  Speaker 4: emerging designers, though I think the industry does have to
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  Speaker 4: take a look at how it's supporting young designers and
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  Speaker 4: see where we can lift them up there.
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  Speaker 1: Australia's fashion industry is facing the same manufacturing and cost
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  Speaker 1: of production challenges that are making onshore productions so hard
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  Speaker 1: for all manufacturers.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, manufacturing locally is extremely expensive. We're all looking for
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  Speaker 4: Australian made clothes, but is it too expensive to actually
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  Speaker 4: make them in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: How do we mitigate that? And Vogue was a part
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  Speaker 3: of an event.
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  Speaker 4: Last week actually at Kuberley House with Jody Hayden, and
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  Speaker 4: that was all about the fashion and the tech innovation
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  Speaker 4: space to make this more viable industry locally, but also
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  Speaker 4: just the shipping costs and the staff costs and all
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  Speaker 4: the sort of logistics, and you do have to realistically
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  Speaker 4: fly to Paris and New York a couple of times
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  Speaker 4: a year to sell your product, to sort of be
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  Speaker 4: there and do the sales directly with the buyers. So
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  Speaker 4: there's all these all this travel, all these prohibitive costs
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  Speaker 4: that can really add up as well, which is why
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  Speaker 4: the clothes that are made here is so expensive, which
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  Speaker 4: we personally think at Vogue that it's a worstwhile investment,
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  Speaker 4: but that's not always the case, and not every customer,
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  Speaker 4: especially with the cost of living crisis, is sort of
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  Speaker 4: able to afford those clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Francesca Wallace is Vogue's digital director. Check out their coverage
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  Speaker 1: of fashion Week at Vogue dot com dot a You
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