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Behind The Scenes Facts On Australian Fashion Week · Two Broke Chicks

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Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gadigal Land Always Was, Always
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Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land.
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Speaker 2: Py Chix.
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Speaker 1: I'm sal and I'm and this is two Broke Chicks
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Speaker 1: to show that shares life lessons and tips to make
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Speaker 1: you rich in life.
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Speaker 3: And today we're talking all things Australian Fashion Week because
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Speaker 3: we've just come straight out of Fashion Week, one of
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Speaker 3: the biggest fashion events of the year in Australia. I
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Speaker 3: want to give you some behind the scenes tea about
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Speaker 3: Australian Fashion Week, plus go through some of our favorite
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Speaker 3: trends that we saw on the runway and also on
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Speaker 3: the streets.
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Speaker 1: I feel like the Street Star from Fashion Week this year,
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Speaker 1: like popped off, I saw more about the Street Star
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Speaker 1: than I did about the actual runways me too.
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Speaker 3: Actually, which is really fun everybody to know about what
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Speaker 3: this episode is going to be about.
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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
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Speaker 3: But before we get into it, we love to start
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Speaker 3: with a product wreck of the week.
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Speaker 1: So, al, what have you got for me? So my
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into the episode.
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Speaker 3: Okay, We're going to start off with the history of
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Speaker 3: Australian Fashion Week. So Australian Fashion Week has actually been
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Speaker 3: around for decades. It was initially launched by a PR
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Speaker 3: consultant and magazine reporter Simon Locke in nineteen ninety six.
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Speaker 2: Your birth year out.
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Speaker 1: I know when you told me that, I was like, hey, yeah,
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Speaker 1: birth of Fashion. It was me, it all alone.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was later sold to IMG in two
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Speaker 3: thousand and five, which is yeah, it's been around for
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Speaker 3: a long long time.
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Speaker 1: I know IMG owned it. M yeah me neither. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think, because we'll get into this later.
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Speaker 3: But because it's had like quite a few different sponsors
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Speaker 3: over the years, I just never realized who actually owned
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Speaker 3: Australian Fashion Week. I thought that it was its own
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Speaker 3: institution in itself.
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Speaker 1: Sane, That's what I thought.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, But it has been described by Vogue Australia as
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Speaker 3: like the biggest fashion event in Australia. It's Australia's only
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Speaker 3: international fashion event as well, and it usually takes place
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Speaker 3: in Sydney at the Carriage Works and other locations around
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Speaker 3: Sydney annually every May. In comparison to other fashion week
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Speaker 3: events around the world, so you know, like your Paris
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Speaker 3: Fashion Week's New York Fashion Week, et cetera. It has
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Speaker 3: been criticized and celebrated for featuring emerging designers rather than
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Speaker 3: big names in fashion.
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Speaker 1: I like that, yeah, I also think it has celebrated
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Speaker 1: big names in fashion, like Beckon Bridge is a big
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Speaker 1: name well in Australia.
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Speaker 3: I guess that's the thing, though it's like in comparison
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Speaker 3: and to say like chanel On, like product or Gucci
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Speaker 3: or like whoever you would say, And I guess I
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Speaker 3: get it.
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Speaker 1: But I also think that.
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Speaker 3: That's a good thing, like why not provide a local,
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Speaker 3: unique experience that you can't get anywhere else in the world.
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Speaker 3: And I thought it was really interesting that a fashion
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Speaker 3: journalist and former Vogue Australia editor Marion Hume, said that
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Speaker 3: the absence of established designers is welcome because it lets
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Speaker 3: even larger designers in Australia grow up and go overseas
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Speaker 3: and have their moment in the sun at some of
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Speaker 3: those fashion week events and gives space to younger, up
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Speaker 3: and coming designers in Australia, which I'm like, why not.
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Speaker 1: I think it's also really good because in my experience,
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Speaker 1: it's it is those like younger and up and coming designer.
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Speaker 1: It's not even younger. It's like when we say younger,
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Speaker 1: we mean like baby brand, not like young designer. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because you can be a designer at any age obviously,
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Speaker 1: but it's those shows that I was like, holy shit,
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Speaker 1: because you just don't really know what you're getting, like
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Speaker 1: you don't know what to expect. Like one of the best,
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Speaker 1: most incredible shows I ever went to back in like
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Speaker 1: my journalist days and we're still journalists, but like when
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Speaker 1: I was a fashion and shopping journalist was this Leo
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Speaker 1: and Lynn show that was all based around the song
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Speaker 1: moon River. That's cool and I wanted to cry, like
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Speaker 1: it was so beautiful. The song moon River was playing
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Speaker 1: and all of the dresses and all of the outfits
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Speaker 1: were like inspired by Starlight and like that song, and
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Speaker 1: I was like, this is and to this date, to
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Speaker 1: this day, to this day, to this date, it is
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Speaker 1: the best fashion show I've ever seen from a brand
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Speaker 1: that I don't know if a lot of people would
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Speaker 1: know it, Like it might be a household name to
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Speaker 1: some people, but I don't know if that's necessarily a
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Speaker 1: super international, Weld renowned brand. So I just think it's
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Speaker 1: really cool. But when we're doing the research for this episode,
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Speaker 1: my favorite part was looking at all the old photos
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Speaker 1: from fashion Week, like Jennifer Hawkins and Alex Perry, like
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Speaker 1: it was just the best throwback and like the evolution
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Speaker 1: of how it has been like spelled Check posted this
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Speaker 1: photo of jenn Hawkins and I don't know if I
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Speaker 1: did show you it now, but I'm gonna show you now.
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Speaker 1: Looks incredible. This is not a read but it is
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Speaker 1: so different to what we see. I'll post it on
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Speaker 1: Instagram too, to what we see now because she's standing
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Speaker 1: in these like two piece Borghini in a black and
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Speaker 1: white floral set with this like mesh red scarf and
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Speaker 1: gold heels a wow, great.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, and she has like a metallic tote
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Speaker 3: bag with a puppy in it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's giving Like Jennifer Hawkins is never a bogan,
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Speaker 1: she's just but yeah, it's like and just like the
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Speaker 1: sitting arrangements is all like single chair, not like the
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Speaker 1: big white benches we see. It's not tied. It's just
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Speaker 1: like it just really shows you how Australian Fashion Week
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Speaker 1: has elevated itself. Yeah, since its beginning. I love that.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 1: So like all the photos I was looking out, I
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Speaker 1: was like, this is a sleigh. Yeah, I was into
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Speaker 1: a fashion week in Australia was a sleigh. Fashion Week
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Speaker 1: now is also that. But I was like, I love it.
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Speaker 3: It's like looking at some of the old arias.
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Speaker 1: It's really nostalgic. I think it's really interesting the evolution
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Speaker 1: of Fashion Week, because I think it was really hit
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Speaker 1: hard by COVID. For years and years it was sponsored
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Speaker 1: by Mercedes Benz, yeah, and it was like quite an
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Speaker 1: iconic thing. They would have Mercedes cars out the front.
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Speaker 1: And then now we're kind of seeing the sponsors change
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Speaker 1: quite often, which I think is interesting. And you know,
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Speaker 1: we don't know why. I was saying this sow before
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Speaker 1: we did the episode. I wonder if it's because people
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Speaker 1: don't want to renew their sponsorships or if they like
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Speaker 1: changing the sponsorship now, Like how the reach not been
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Speaker 1: enough for these sponsors to renew or do they just
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Speaker 1: like get a new sponsors every year. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: because in twenty twenty two it was sponsored by after
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Speaker 1: Pay and in twenty twenty four it was sponsored by Pandora,
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Speaker 1: which was interesting. Interesting.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like I feel like at least after Pay
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Speaker 3: and Pandora are more aligned with fashion and shopping.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mercedes Mercedes, it was just because they had done
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Speaker 1: it like every year, just kind.
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Speaker 3: Of and because Mercedes Benz is such like a lux
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Speaker 3: breadder Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so interesting. It will be next year two
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Speaker 1: Broake Chicks, two Broach Chicks, past a Week rich In
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Speaker 1: Live Fashion Week Yeah. Love. So our history with fashion Week.
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Speaker 1: I started my job as a journalist as a fashion
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Speaker 1: and shopping journalist, so I think I went to three
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Speaker 1: fashion weeks like prop like every day shows, reporting, shows,
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Speaker 1: reporting shows, reporting, and then kind of since moving into
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Speaker 1: our job now we don't really go as much, just
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Speaker 1: for like personal preference, not that there's anything wrong with it.
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Speaker 1: I just find it really hectic.
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Speaker 3: It is a really and I feel like over the
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Speaker 3: last couple of years, just by coincidence, we've.
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Speaker 2: Been really really busy during.
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Speaker 3: Week. Yeah May or like last year, yeah we were
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Speaker 3: in BALI I think, yeah, so it just hasn't lined up.
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Speaker 1: But it is a very intense, full on week. But
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Speaker 1: it's fun but it's yeah, it's really fun. But I
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Speaker 1: think I just I like watching it from a my
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Speaker 1: phone screen to be honest. But how it works is
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Speaker 1: in previous years I would sign up as media. So
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Speaker 1: if you work at a publication, you register on the
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Speaker 1: Australian Fashion Week website and you'd put in your publication
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Speaker 1: how many sessions and page views your site gets and
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Speaker 1: your details, So page views and your sessions are basically
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Speaker 1: like views on Instagram or TikTok, Like that's how you
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Speaker 1: would like look at it, yeah, or like readership back
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Speaker 1: in the day. Yeah, they'd be like who goes on
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Speaker 1: your side? And if it's like you know, ninety percent women,
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Speaker 1: it's literally like insights on analytics on Instagram and TikTok.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And then this is what I imagine gets like put
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Speaker 1: into the OZ Fashion Week database and then designers and
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Speaker 1: shows would then look at who's coming and invite you
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Speaker 1: based on that. They look at like your role, so
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Speaker 1: they would probably prioritize editors or like fashion writers depending
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Speaker 1: on where you worked, and then they would invite you accordingly.
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Speaker 1: You either get invited through like OZ fashion Week, like
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Speaker 1: their database two shows, or directly through brands PR or
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Speaker 1: their PR agency. And as I said, haven't really attended
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Speaker 1: as much, but I think a lot more happens through
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Speaker 1: PR and agencies because influencers are just such a big
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Speaker 1: part of fashion week now. Yeah, I think we were
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Speaker 1: talking about this before the changing roles at fashion week,
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Speaker 1: because I think I see every year there's people being
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Speaker 1: like wayn isn't always influences that fashion week and it's like, well,
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Speaker 1: where do you get your fashion from? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Exactly, Like, especially in Australia, Like if we think about
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Speaker 3: our local fashion icons, almost all of them are influencers
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Speaker 3: and content creators. Like I think maybe this time, ten, fifteen,
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Speaker 3: twenty years ago, sure it may have been models who
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Speaker 3: were also walking on the runway, but more often now,
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Speaker 3: like we're not really looking to Vogue magazine.
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Speaker 1: Well that's the thing is that we're getting it from.
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Speaker 1: It's like you were getting your fashion and trends and
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Speaker 1: you know, shopping information from buying you know, your WHO magazine,
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Speaker 1: You're Vogue, your rush wherever it was coming from, because
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Speaker 1: social media wasn't a thing. Whereas now like half the
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Speaker 1: time we're seeing trends and what we're buying is from
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Speaker 1: influencers and fashion creators. So I feel like they do
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Speaker 1: belong in Fashion Week.
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Speaker 3: And also I like it because I feel like we
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Speaker 3: have seen so much more diversity in terms of style,
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Speaker 3: body race, gender fluidity, everything sexuality, Like, so much more
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Speaker 3: representation across the board because influencers and content creators are
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Speaker 3: there and it isn't just your stereotypical model or fashion
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Speaker 3: editor that you may have seen fifteen years ago.
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Speaker 1: What's wrong with that? I don't think. I think there's
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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with it. I think this year it's definitely
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Speaker 1: been more like enjoyed. Yeah, like even more celebrated. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: people are loving it a little bit more, and they're
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Speaker 1: loving like the street style little bit more because I've
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Speaker 1: definitely seen more about the street style and the looks
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Speaker 1: posted than the runways, which is interesting, but I like it.
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Speaker 1: I like seeing both. Yeah, street style is like half
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Speaker 1: the fun of it. Yeah, And the shows go for
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Speaker 1: like a few minutes. It really varies ending who it is.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I would be standing and lining up because like
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be front row, and sometimes I'd be standing tea. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: If I got a seat, I was like, I made it,
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Speaker 1: I know. If I got like third row, I was
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Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah. So the shows don't go for as
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Speaker 1: long as you think they do. Yeah, Like the first
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Speaker 1: one I ever went to, I was like, oh, it's
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Speaker 1: done like that, But it makes sense need to be
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Speaker 1: any longer. I think you just overestimate maybe a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Like I've been to shows that went for five minutes,
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Speaker 1: and I've been to shows that went to twenty minutes.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think i've ever been to a show
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Speaker 1: that went over that, and I mean like five minutes
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Speaker 1: as in the first models out on the runway to
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Speaker 1: the last model is out the door on the runway,
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Speaker 1: not like doors open and you're sitting down and yeah,
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Speaker 1: people are taking photos on the runway and whatever. And
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Speaker 1: the seating, which I just find so like interesting and spicy,
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Speaker 1: is done in terms of row and like front row
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Speaker 1: is that like high position of like fashion royalty. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so like the the front row will still be like
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Speaker 1: Vogue editors and that kind of thing. But as we
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Speaker 1: were saying, more and more, we're just seeing so many
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Speaker 1: more influencers in front row because they have the reach,
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Speaker 1: they have the audience. That's where people are watching it
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Speaker 1: from on their phones, which makes sense, but it's really
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Speaker 1: funny because they will be this is spicy, and this isn't.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone's done this this year. This
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Speaker 1: isn't to do with anything. I don't know if there's
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Speaker 1: been any gossip about it. But when I was going,
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Speaker 1: it was kind of funny because my editor that I
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Speaker 1: went with would tell me how people would like push
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Speaker 1: into the front row, so you when you get invited,
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Speaker 1: you'll get your seat on your invitation, so it'll be
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Speaker 1: like row B twelve, like that'll kind of sometimes it
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Speaker 1: doesn't give you a number. Sometimes it just gives you
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Speaker 1: your row, and sometimes it will give you a number.
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Speaker 1: But people would just wing it and just sit down
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Speaker 1: in the front row. And when I was going, you
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Speaker 1: just see all these people squished in the front row
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Speaker 1: from people that were like fuck it, yeah, in the
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Speaker 1: front row and see what makes me move? And I
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Speaker 1: just find it really funny. Yeah, it's definitely bold.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because sometimes people in the front row get a
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Speaker 3: goodie bag or something as well. I think you're just
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Speaker 3: taking someone's goodie bag like that technic. Yeah, sometimes there
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Speaker 3: will be like the row a will get like a
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Speaker 3: little goodie bag of like accessories or something.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like people will just sit there and be like
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Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, And I'm like, wow, I could never
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Speaker 1: have the balls to do that, but yeah, it's kind
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Speaker 1: of funny. It's a funny way to do it. So
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Speaker 1: how much does it cost to go to fashion Week?
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Speaker 1: According to The Daily Telegraph, designers spend one hundred k
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Speaker 1: plus to show at Australian Fashion Week with no guarantee
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Speaker 1: of return. Well huge, right, with the average Australian Fashion
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Speaker 1: Week show costing more than one hundred thousand dollars to produce.
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Speaker 1: Designers say there's no longer certainty the hype will translate
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Speaker 1: to sales. That's also like, I don't know if that
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Speaker 1: number is including hair, makeup, models, marketing, like people sometimes
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Speaker 1: in creators to come backstage and get content on the
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Speaker 1: show that I really would love to know how many
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Speaker 1: designers have made profit. There's many ways you can look
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Speaker 1: at profit though, because M on Holiday, for example, I've
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Speaker 1: seen that show on a lot of people's that was
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Speaker 1: such a social media page and it was incredible that
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Speaker 1: I started following M on Holiday because of seeing it
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Speaker 1: around and I really really liked the pieces that I'm like,
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Speaker 1: you would look at that as profit, but it's not
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Speaker 1: monetary profit. Yeah, it's like marketing profit that I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I wonder how brand do calculate whether or not it
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Speaker 1: was worth it? Yeah, because we do see brands do
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Speaker 1: it year on you like Beck and Bridge, Yeah exactly,
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Speaker 1: and John Paul got yeah yeah yeah, which is so interesting.
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Speaker 3: But again it just goes to show like how much
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Speaker 3: work and money goes into.
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Speaker 1: Something that may only last a few minutes. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's crazy, isn't it. Like think of all the hours
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Speaker 1: designing every piece, and the stress and the game going
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Speaker 1: through what models you're going to use, choosing your hair
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Speaker 1: and makeup, and the stress. Yeah too stressful for me? Yeah? Good,
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Speaker 1: never for me.
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Speaker 3: Props to every designer for showing up fashion week as attendees.
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Speaker 1: It looks a bit different. The main cost, I think
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Speaker 1: is really your outfit, but it's like a super wide spectrum.
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Speaker 1: So this year Pop Sugar interviewed people at fashion week
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Speaker 1: on how much they spent on what they were wearing,
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Speaker 1: and there were some people saying, you know, four thousand,
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Speaker 1: and there were some people saying zero dollars. So I
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Speaker 1: think it was really cool seeing all the people that
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Speaker 1: were like, oh, I just got this out of my wardrobe. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like I'm just re wearing these pieces, and then there
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Speaker 1: were other people going to do that again. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was really cool seeing people be really open about
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Speaker 1: how they were just wearing things from their wardrobe or
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Speaker 1: re wearing pieces. And then also we were seeing people
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Speaker 1: be a little bit more open about like loans and gifting.
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Speaker 1: So what happens before fashion week is like pr agencies
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Speaker 1: will like email people and they'll open up like a
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Speaker 1: gifting house and you basically go in and look at
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Speaker 1: all the clothing and just pick and choose what you
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Speaker 1: want to wear, and it's like agreed upon that you're
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Speaker 1: like tag or you know, because they're getting pre marketing
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Speaker 1: basically with you wearing their outfits.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, which I think is a fair trade.
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Speaker 3: But it's good that people are being more open about
19:57
Speaker 3: that because, you know, we have spoken about how you know,
20:01
Speaker 3: a lot of people do feel pressure are seeing, you know,
20:03
Speaker 3: especially content creators and people who work in the fashion
20:06
Speaker 3: space who are always wearing the latest trends and wearing
20:08
Speaker 3: amazing outfits and it's like, yeah, well they may not
20:12
Speaker 3: even actually be able to afford it because it's been
20:14
Speaker 3: gifted to them.
20:15
Speaker 1: My first fashion week, I think this is in like
20:20
Speaker 1: twenty and eighteen, I was wearing the Uglies. I was
20:26
Speaker 1: wearing these red boots that I couldn't even walk in.
20:32
Speaker 1: I fell down my driveway. Were they like kind of
20:36
Speaker 1: a Swedi sock boot? Yeahs, And so they were like
20:42
Speaker 1: that kind of stretchy material and it was this pointed
20:46
Speaker 1: stiletto red boot that I was walking down my driveway
20:49
Speaker 1: and absolutely eight fucking concrete and I was.
20:56
Speaker 3: No one was.
20:56
Speaker 1: Around, but I knew and I was wearing white pants
21:00
Speaker 1: and then I had to go back upstairs and get
21:02
Speaker 1: changed because I had like got dirt over my white hats.
21:06
Speaker 1: And I think another outfit I was wearing that like
21:08
Speaker 1: Brixton truck a cap. Yeah, the train hat that we
21:11
Speaker 1: all had. But like that's fashion for you. Like you're
21:14
Speaker 1: gonna look back on outfits that you were and you're like,
21:16
Speaker 1: what are you doing well.
21:17
Speaker 3: I think Refinery twenty nine did a carousel and it
21:19
Speaker 3: was like looking back.
21:20
Speaker 1: At all of the looks yeah in fashion.
21:23
Speaker 3: Week, and I think they went back to like twenty fourteen,
21:25
Speaker 3: and it was really interesting seeing the looks that they
21:28
Speaker 3: picked for each year that sort of represented the fashion
21:31
Speaker 3: of the year, and it's like it does change. I
21:33
Speaker 3: actually also saw like quite a few people who were
21:36
Speaker 3: getting interviewed in box pops and stuff, being like, oh, yeah,
21:39
Speaker 3: this is an old piece from years ago, or you know,
21:42
Speaker 3: I even recognized pieces from some of the people that
21:45
Speaker 3: I follow, and I'm like, I've seen you wear that
21:47
Speaker 3: before and you're wearing it again.
21:49
Speaker 2: Or they'd be like, yeah, this was my sister's and.
21:51
Speaker 3: I borrowed it from her, Like I was just like
21:53
Speaker 3: more of that, Yeah, more of that chat please?
21:56
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah. I think like, if you want
21:58
Speaker 1: to buy something to wear to fashion week, that's your prerogative.
22:01
Speaker 1: But I really did enjoy seeing how many people were like, yeah, no,
22:05
Speaker 1: I already owned this. I thought that was cool. So
22:08
Speaker 1: some of our favorite trends street style and on the runway, Yeah,
22:15
Speaker 1: I love it. The most common colors I've seen, which
22:20
Speaker 1: I'm very happy about the way that I will determine
22:24
Speaker 1: a trend was how I got taught by my old editor,
22:27
Speaker 1: And it's if you see it across three shows, or
22:30
Speaker 1: if you see it like across you know, street style
22:34
Speaker 1: and then two shows, it's got to be kind of
22:36
Speaker 1: across multiple things. Was how I was taught. And I've
22:39
Speaker 1: seen so much pink, which pink has not traditionally been
22:44
Speaker 1: a color that I've enjoyed in my wardrobe, but I
22:48
Speaker 1: am on the bandwagon. I just love how it's been styled.
22:52
Speaker 1: I love how it's been worked in both feminine ways
22:56
Speaker 1: and a little bit more grungier ways and a little
22:58
Speaker 1: bit more like embellishment. It's like bows or like ruffles
23:02
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Yeah, and then more outputs are
23:04
Speaker 1: just all of it's pink. Yeah, and I just love it.
23:07
Speaker 1: I think it looks so good.
23:08
Speaker 2: It's so cute.
23:09
Speaker 3: And it's funny because at the end of last year,
23:12
Speaker 3: when we were doing our like trend predictions for the
23:15
Speaker 3: year and whatever, we were like that Barbie Court, it's over,
23:18
Speaker 3: bah bah, and I'm like, it's not.
23:20
Speaker 1: She's here to stay, calling it is what's over.
23:24
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but wearing but wearing all pink is here
23:28
Speaker 3: to stay, yeah, which I like as well as red
23:31
Speaker 3: and green yeah, which like a two of my favorite colors.
23:34
Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, yeah, I was telling sal
23:36
Speaker 1: I did my with AI. I did my what's it
23:39
Speaker 1: called my season? Oh yeah, your color Analyson, Yeah that one. Yeah.
23:44
Speaker 1: And I just did it with the AI app that
23:47
Speaker 1: we mentioned in our AI episode and yeah, I'm a
23:50
Speaker 1: true Autumn. And so it was like red green, and
23:53
Speaker 1: I was like sweet, perfect, yea, it's all we need. Amazing.
23:56
Speaker 1: And then the other one that's been my favorite, which
24:01
Speaker 1: is never going to go anywhere, but it was suiting.
24:03
Speaker 1: I was seeing so many people wearing suiting, but in
24:07
Speaker 1: different ways like that it's elevating, it's evolving and I
24:10
Speaker 1: just I think it's a home run every time it is.
24:13
Speaker 3: It's classic, Okay, some of my favorites from the runway,
24:18
Speaker 3: but also straight style metallic. So we saw this at
24:21
Speaker 3: Beckhambridge and also the Acla show as well, and I
24:25
Speaker 3: saw quite a few people rocking metallic, especially in accessories,
24:30
Speaker 3: in shoes and in handbags, lots of silver, but in
24:33
Speaker 3: the Aklas show they also had gold metallic, which I
24:36
Speaker 3: was like, I feel like we haven't seen as much
24:38
Speaker 3: in recent years and I love it.
24:40
Speaker 2: I feel like it just gives like.
24:41
Speaker 3: A rock and roll edge to any look and instantly
24:44
Speaker 3: elevates any look, which I loved. And then also texture
24:49
Speaker 3: so across like a few different things, but some examples
24:52
Speaker 3: like quilted materials, lots of ruffles and chul and also
24:57
Speaker 3: layering and layering different textures as well. So we saw
25:01
Speaker 3: this on the House of Campbell and Akla runways and
25:05
Speaker 3: then in the street style as well, which I just love,
25:07
Speaker 3: especially for Winter two because you can layer and play
25:11
Speaker 3: with different textures and stuff.
25:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then some of our favorite best dress included
25:18
Speaker 1: charlene Y Davies who did the serving of the table
25:21
Speaker 1: with the croissants truly so like literally, and I saw
25:25
Speaker 1: an interview that she said she got the tablecloth from
25:28
Speaker 1: like Spotlight.
25:29
Speaker 2: That's it.
25:29
Speaker 1: I just grabbed the croissants from her favorite cafe and
25:32
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to beat you when I
25:33
Speaker 1: grow up.
25:34
Speaker 3: It was giving like Beauty and the Beast, which I loved,
25:37
Speaker 3: like be our guest.
25:39
Speaker 2: That's I was just like, this is amazing.
25:41
Speaker 1: I really loved it. It's very whimsical that, Oh my gosh.
25:48
Speaker 1: And also Bianca Hunt. I saw a photo of her
25:51
Speaker 1: taken by a Refinery twenty nine and I sent it
25:53
Speaker 1: to her and I literally was like, I'm obsessed with you. Yeah.
25:57
Speaker 1: I was like, how dare you look? I was wearing like.
26:00
Speaker 3: This beautiful, like turquoise hooded outfit.
26:03
Speaker 1: It was stunny. And I mean she always slice. Yeah,
26:07
Speaker 1: she knows what she's doing. That's why we had her
26:09
Speaker 1: on to do a style inspo podcast. Yeah and no
26:11
Speaker 1: back and listen to that. Yeah, and Riley Hempsen and
26:14
Speaker 1: Zig's mum maka Carmen, Oh my god. Hotties, Yeah, hotties
26:18
Speaker 1: across the board.
26:19
Speaker 3: Joey Malcolm was incredible, was wearing incredible across the whole week,
26:25
Speaker 3: but one particular look I loved was this like ruffled
26:30
Speaker 3: pink top and red skirt moment and it was like
26:34
Speaker 3: ruffled and had big bows on that. Yeah, pink and
26:36
Speaker 3: red very on trend and was just like so dramatic.
26:39
Speaker 3: But I'm really like cute seeing girly, but I feel
26:42
Speaker 3: like the way that she styled it in her hair
26:44
Speaker 3: and everything gave it a bit of edge was really cool.
26:47
Speaker 3: Maggie's our who we love, did like a photo dump
26:52
Speaker 3: of a bunch of looks, and every single one I
26:53
Speaker 3: was like, yes, yes, yes, And I didn't see all
26:57
Speaker 3: the details, but like she's really into like dtainable and
27:00
Speaker 3: slow fashion, so I just know that so many of.
27:02
Speaker 1: Them would have been like vintage pieces. Yeah, yeah, so
27:07
Speaker 1: very cool.
27:08
Speaker 3: Maxine Wild always a hit, always a hit, and to
27:12
Speaker 3: Tender Lunar as well, who were having on the show
27:15
Speaker 3: coming up. Sneak peak, sneak peak, but so many cute looks,
27:18
Speaker 3: but my favorite was like this ruffled white.
27:22
Speaker 1: Top that was long paired with jeans. Ah see. I
27:28
Speaker 1: like when the outfits are kind of wearable, like when
27:33
Speaker 1: you can see yourself wearing the outfit, because I like
27:37
Speaker 1: looking at these things in the street style and the
27:39
Speaker 1: shows for like inspiration for myself. I don't necessarily feel
27:43
Speaker 1: like I gravitate to the looks that are so far
27:47
Speaker 1: high fashion because I'm like, I can't. I don't know
27:50
Speaker 1: how I could wear that. I don't quite see myself
27:53
Speaker 1: in that, Whereas I like the looks that I can
27:54
Speaker 1: see myself in. Yeah, I'd be like I own pieces
27:57
Speaker 1: similar to that, exactly. I could do something like that,
28:00
Speaker 1: like that's where I like all the peaks and the bees, Yeah, exactly.
28:04
Speaker 3: And with that one it was like a very dramatic, beautiful,
28:07
Speaker 3: whimsical type and then with Jans which I'm just like
28:11
Speaker 3: it was a sligh yeud.
28:13
Speaker 1: But I think this has definitely been one of the
28:16
Speaker 1: biggest fashion weeks we've seen in years. I think Fashion
28:19
Speaker 1: Week was really touch and go during and after COVID.
28:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really I.
28:24
Speaker 1: Didn't know if they were going to keep doing it,
28:26
Speaker 1: to be honest, because I think there was one year
28:28
Speaker 1: and like there were roads that were empty that I
28:33
Speaker 1: feel like it's potentially exiting its flop era. Yeah, especially
28:37
Speaker 1: this year. This year it was a big bang.
28:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it seems like a lot of people are
28:41
Speaker 3: talking about it. A lot of people were going all
28:44
Speaker 3: of the street Style was amazing.
28:47
Speaker 1: All of their outlets as well, like Pedestrian, Refinery, Pop Sugar, Yeah,
28:51
Speaker 1: you know, stylish new kids on the block. They were
28:53
Speaker 1: all there. Yeah. But I think one really important thing
28:58
Speaker 1: to note with Fashion Week, and something that I really
29:01
Speaker 1: wanted to also acknowledge in this episode, is how much
29:05
Speaker 1: it is still dealing with a lack of inclusivity. I
29:09
Speaker 1: saw a post from Kate Was who reposted an article
29:12
Speaker 1: she wrote back in twenty twenty one with the caption
29:15
Speaker 1: I'm so tired. So here's an article I wrote for
29:17
Speaker 1: Pedestrian TV in twenty twenty one, and I'm just going
29:20
Speaker 1: to read out a portion of it. It is a
29:21
Speaker 1: bit long, but I think it's important to discuss after pay.
29:26
Speaker 1: Australian Fashion Week showed some exceptional diversity this year that
29:30
Speaker 1: fills me with hope and excitement for the future. We
29:32
Speaker 1: were graced with shows run and created by First Nations
29:35
Speaker 1: designers with all indigenous models. We saw trance models and
29:38
Speaker 1: even some age diversity amid the shows I attended. But
29:42
Speaker 1: one thing I found lacking yet again was sized diversity.
29:46
Speaker 1: Going into Australian Fashion Week this year as a guest,
29:48
Speaker 1: I was excited an honored to be among those invited.
29:52
Speaker 1: I really enjoy fashion, and my excitement stemmed from the
29:55
Speaker 1: AAFW panels and discussions around the importance of diversity. At
29:59
Speaker 1: the start of the week. While I wasn't expecting shows
30:02
Speaker 1: to be as diverse as the likes of Rhianna's Savage Expente,
30:06
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting what we got three plus size models
30:09
Speaker 1: and a sprinkle of models above a size eight. This
30:12
Speaker 1: time of year, it becomes so apparent that my size
30:14
Speaker 1: still isn't recognized, accepted or desirable in the Australian fashion game,
30:18
Speaker 1: and that is a very familiar weight on my shoulders
30:20
Speaker 1: that I've been caring for years. When I was first
30:23
Speaker 1: thinking about attending AFW, my mind raced over the very
30:27
Speaker 1: few brands that I know stock a size eighteen. The
30:30
Speaker 1: race was on to find something age appropriate that wasn't frumpy,
30:33
Speaker 1: oversized and covered in roses with a cold shoulder detail.
30:37
Speaker 1: This year, among the age ability and racial diversity, only
30:40
Speaker 1: three out of seventy brands catered for a size eighteen,
30:44
Speaker 1: even if there was only a handful that didn't stop
30:46
Speaker 1: at a size twelve, which was definitely reflected in the
30:49
Speaker 1: choice of models by the end of the week, I
30:51
Speaker 1: had lost so much hope for myself and women that
30:53
Speaker 1: wear twenty plus that I almost cried tears of joy
30:56
Speaker 1: when I saw my beautiful friend and bellow Vvian's model
30:59
Speaker 1: Lauren mcn math walk out in swimwear one size eighteen,
31:03
Speaker 1: model one, and I felt grateful.
31:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, question mark and the fact that they've reposted it
31:10
Speaker 3: this year, you know what three years later? Yeah, and
31:15
Speaker 3: it's still the same. I think we do have a
31:18
Speaker 3: long long way to go, And I just think, like,
31:23
Speaker 3: can we please start representing the people that exist in
31:26
Speaker 3: the world, Like we want everyone wants to shop and
31:30
Speaker 3: wear these fashions, and like they exist and they're here,
31:33
Speaker 3: so can we please start reflecting that.
31:35
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, I think as much as it has been
31:39
Speaker 1: such a pleasure watching, I really you know, I think
31:44
Speaker 1: it's important to recognize that the work's not quite done yet.
31:50
Speaker 1: I might see work being done, but I feel like
31:53
Speaker 1: there's more to do. Absolutely, But yeah, all right, shall
31:56
Speaker 1: we get into advice with the chicks?
32:05
Speaker 3: I can't stand my boyfriend's sister. I've been dating my
32:09
Speaker 3: boyfriend for three years and his sister is only a
32:12
Speaker 3: year younger than us, despite only being a year younger
32:16
Speaker 3: than us. She is quite immature and very dependent. When
32:19
Speaker 3: her mum isn't around, her brother has to do everything
32:22
Speaker 3: for her. She is weirdly possessive of him and is
32:25
Speaker 3: always guilt tripping her brother into making us spend more
32:28
Speaker 3: time with her, even when we have our own plans.
32:32
Speaker 3: I do love her, but it's starting to get on
32:34
Speaker 3: my nerves, like I'm competing for my boyfriend's attention with
32:37
Speaker 3: his sister. She is very immature, and I wouldn't be
32:40
Speaker 3: able to have a conversation with her.
32:42
Speaker 2: What should I do?
32:44
Speaker 1: That's so tricky spicy, I think, like at the end
32:49
Speaker 1: of the day, that is his family. Mmm, Like, I know,
32:55
Speaker 1: it is a bit annoying, especially if you want to
32:58
Speaker 1: spend like quality time with your boyfriend. And we don't
33:02
Speaker 1: really have heap like any examples of how she's really immature.
33:06
Speaker 1: So that's like a bit tricky to kind of no.
33:09
Speaker 2: Maturity is in the eye of the beholder.
33:12
Speaker 1: Seriously, it's kind of like a bit of a spectrum
33:14
Speaker 1: of what people find immature. Like I find fart jokes
33:16
Speaker 1: really funny, but people would find that really immature. Oh
33:19
Speaker 1: my god, I have story to tell you later. Oh no,
33:21
Speaker 1: I already told you when I was in the public bath,
33:24
Speaker 1: oh yeah, and someone was in there and I was like,
33:29
Speaker 1: oh no, and I washed my hands really quickly to
33:31
Speaker 1: get out. Anyway, I digress just sort I'd share that
33:34
Speaker 1: with the chicks too, just being really immature. But I
33:39
Speaker 1: think that's the thing. It's like, it is their family.
33:43
Speaker 1: And I've dated people where there were certain family members
33:46
Speaker 1: that I was like, I wouldn't necessarily spend time with
33:51
Speaker 1: you if I wasn't dating this person. Yeah, it's like
33:55
Speaker 1: your own family. That's previous people that I've dated, by
33:58
Speaker 1: the way, but on the record, yeah, just so we
34:01
Speaker 1: don't go digging. But at the end of the day,
34:05
Speaker 1: that is their family. And I never said anything about
34:09
Speaker 1: it because that thing that can be really tricky. It
34:13
Speaker 1: really can put a distance between you and your partner.
34:16
Speaker 1: I think one of the ways that you can kind
34:19
Speaker 1: of work around it is expressing that you want to
34:22
Speaker 1: spend more one on one time, like more quality time
34:25
Speaker 1: that is just the two of you, and really expressing
34:28
Speaker 1: the importance of that, and then if that doesn't happen,
34:33
Speaker 1: then you can open the conversation up of I said
34:36
Speaker 1: that I want to spend more one on one time
34:37
Speaker 1: with you and that didn't happen today. Can we spend
34:40
Speaker 1: more one on one time, like next time, can we
34:42
Speaker 1: make sure that it's just one on one so that
34:45
Speaker 1: way it's not about a family member, it's not about
34:48
Speaker 1: a relative, but it is something like if you love
34:53
Speaker 1: this person and you want to be with them forever
34:55
Speaker 1: ever ever, you're going to have to get over it. Yeah,
34:58
Speaker 1: you have to find some way to like move past
35:02
Speaker 1: it or like get over not get over it because
35:06
Speaker 1: like you're just feeling with it, you're being into valid
35:09
Speaker 1: but just have like I don't know, copy mechanisms at
35:11
Speaker 1: Christmas exactly.
35:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I know some people that will have issues
35:17
Speaker 3: with like their parents.
35:19
Speaker 2: In law or whatever, and they know that, like, Okay, when.
35:23
Speaker 3: I go to lunch with their family, their mom's going
35:27
Speaker 3: to be like really protective over my boyfriend and being
35:30
Speaker 3: like my baby blah blah blah, and just going into
35:33
Speaker 3: that being like, Okay, this is going to happen.
35:35
Speaker 1: I know it's going to happen. Let me have like
35:37
Speaker 1: a little winge about it to myself beforehand, let it
35:40
Speaker 1: all out.
35:41
Speaker 3: Journal it something, then burn it so now I'll find it,
35:44
Speaker 3: eat it, and then go in knowing like, Okay, I'm
35:48
Speaker 3: only going to be here for an hour for lunch
35:51
Speaker 3: and then I can just like and let it go.
35:54
Speaker 1: Like I get where you're coming from one hundred percent,
35:56
Speaker 1: and I don't want you to feel invalid that it's like,
36:00
Speaker 1: oh no, you just have to get over No, it
36:01
Speaker 1: sounds incredibly annoyed. That's not at all what we're saying,
36:04
Speaker 1: because it is really frustrating when you think that you're
36:07
Speaker 1: going to spend quality time with your partner and it's
36:09
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. But they're not going anywhere. Yeah, that's
36:14
Speaker 1: the thing, is like they're they're going to be around forever.
36:17
Speaker 1: That is like his little sister, and she probably does
36:20
Speaker 1: look up to him as her big brother, whether or
36:23
Speaker 1: not there's only a year difference. Yeah, if she.
36:25
Speaker 3: Is really dependent on your boyfriend for things that you
36:29
Speaker 3: feel like maybe she shouldn't, you always could encourage your
36:31
Speaker 3: boyfriend like, oh, it actually might be better for her
36:34
Speaker 3: if you don't do that for her, because you might
36:37
Speaker 3: be enabling her not to do something for herself. And like,
36:40
Speaker 3: if you have an example with your own sleepling or
36:43
Speaker 3: with a friend or something where you've had to do that,
36:45
Speaker 3: you could bring that into the conversation. So it's not
36:48
Speaker 3: that you're like attacking her or saying she's incompetent or anything,
36:51
Speaker 3: but you know that you're trying to help her and
36:53
Speaker 3: you're also trying to help him, because yeah, people either
36:57
Speaker 3: with siblings, people know that their sibling is like that,
37:01
Speaker 3: and they're probably they've probably said that to you themselves,
37:04
Speaker 3: They've pointed out their siblings flaws, being like, yeah, I know,
37:07
Speaker 3: they're like, you know, really dependent or blah blah, or
37:10
Speaker 3: they're completely blind to it because they just think that
37:13
Speaker 3: that's how their sibling is and they're happy with that.
37:15
Speaker 3: So it could also depend on you know, your boyfriend's
37:18
Speaker 3: perception of their little sister to how you broach this
37:22
Speaker 3: conversation or how you approach you know, this dynamic.
37:26
Speaker 2: It's very tricky.
37:27
Speaker 1: It's such a tricky line because you really risk shooting
37:31
Speaker 1: yourself in the foot if you talk too far.
37:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also remember that even if even if your
37:40
Speaker 3: partner does say something about their own family or their sibling.
37:44
Speaker 1: They can say it because it's their sibling or their parents.
37:47
Speaker 3: So you can like nod along and be like that
37:50
Speaker 3: would be so annoying, And I get that, But Yeah,
37:53
Speaker 3: don't dump on top of it.
37:54
Speaker 1: Don't be like yeah, and when they did this, that
37:56
Speaker 1: was yeah, don't do that because that's not your place.
38:01
Speaker 1: We have a friend that that happened to them, and
38:03
Speaker 1: they like opened the can of worms because they thought
38:06
Speaker 1: the door was like open and then it was bad. Yep.
38:11
Speaker 1: But yeah, hope that helps. I know it's probably a
38:15
Speaker 1: bit not probably not maybe the antsy you're looking for,
38:18
Speaker 1: but it is. It is one of those situations where
38:22
Speaker 1: it is what it is. Yeah, yeah, maybe you could
38:24
Speaker 1: try find some common ground. There's got to be something, something, something, Yeah.
38:31
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it sounds like she's really nice. She
38:33
Speaker 3: said that you do like her, But I think that's
38:35
Speaker 3: the thing. You probably can't change her or her relationship
38:39
Speaker 3: with her brother and your boyfriend, but you can potentially
38:42
Speaker 3: change and have some control over how you deal with
38:45
Speaker 3: the situation in.
38:46
Speaker 1: The moment and how much you let it annoy you.
38:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it is.
38:49
Speaker 3: It does sound very annoying. So I'm sorry you're dealing
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Speaker 3: with that, and thanks for writing in.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Chikichuk. All right, well that's a rap It's a
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Speaker 1: rapity rare rapity rep dip on this episode of two
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Speaker 1: Broken Chucks.
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Speaker 2: Thanks to you chicks for having us in your ear holes.
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Speaker 1: We love to be here.
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Speaker 2: And thanks to m I K Made for making today's
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Speaker 2: episode happened.
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Speaker 1: Love Yeah Bye, cheeks Bye