Whats your going rate?

THIS SEASON THE FRONT ROW WILL BE MORE CELEBRITIES THAN INTERNATIONAL BUYERS.

I was shocked to hear that our rather bumbly London Mayor, Boris Johnson, will be spending £40,000 on air tickets and hotel rooms as a way to tempt buyers to come to our LFW this season.

Has London Fashion truely come to this, where we find ourselves paying buyers to come and view our talented designers wares? I find it sad and slightly upsetting, because if i remember correctly it was pretty much just yesterday that they shortened our fashion week so as to extend the NY one, and now we are counting the pennies in our pockets just to see if we can tempt the buyers who have decided to snubb us this season giving the credit crunch as teh reason and offering them what pretty is a first class pass to LFW with no cost to them-puh!!! The £ is weak now, they should be flocking here!

Am i being too sensitive to the current situation? or even naive? because to me it is very much like someone leaving cash for you on the bedside table. Anywho, looking to the future, I must add that I look foward to the day that London becomes less of a stop over to Milan and Paris, but instead becomes the must go place for all international fashionista who will then find themselves cat fighting to get the best invites going. Ahhh a London Fashionista can dream, now i must go and book my Eurostar ticket for Paris Fashion Week!

Champagnista M