Influencer says what everyone is REALLY thinking about Australian Fashion Week
An Australian influencer has slammed this year's Australian Fashion Week over what she saw as the 'basic' and uninspired outfits the A-Listers wore at the world-famous event.
TikTok star Meg Hansen shared a clip to the platform in which she criticised this year's looks.
'Let's come for people who are really basic while wearing a wrap on our head, two shirts as pants stepping into a leg each,' she began.
'And a scarf wrapped around our crutch all the way to our shoulder. Let's start doing that and calling it fashion!'
She added she was also not impressed with how the stars were coming across in interviews.
'The interviews this year are unhinged,' Meg wrote.
Many of her followers took to the comment section to share their thoughts.
'I can't with AFW anymore. I honestly can't. I want to cry,' one person wrote.
'This year AFW was actually a joke. It makes me so angry,' another added.
'Australian fashion is extremely inauthentic and unoriginal,' a third chipped in.
It comes after Sopha Dopha slammed the media covering Australian Fashion Week at Carriageworks this week after she was asked two 'diabolical' questions.
The TikTok star, 21, whose real name is Sophia Beggs, arrived at Carriageworks in Sydney 's Eveleigh district wearing a fluffy, green two-piece by Selezza London on Tuesday and a metallic silver dress with a plunging V neckline on Thursday.
'This is my third year attending AFW and I wanted to do a little debrief on how this year has been,' she said in a video.
Sophia, who has 1.4 million followers on TikTok, said she flew into Sydney from Texas in the US on Tuesday morning.
'Let's come for people who are really basic, while wearing a wrap on our head, two shirts as pants stepping into a leg each,' she began. Pictured: Suzan Mutesi (left) and Jamie Azzopardi at AFW
'I didn't really have a lot of time to prepare my looks. I kind of packed my suitcase with heaps of stuff I had from home and loaned heaps,' she explained.
'I always say yes to the interviews because it's a bit of fun and part of the experience, and good for exposure. But some of the questions I have been asked this year were diabolical.'
Pedestrian.TV reporters asked Sophia, among other Fashion Week attendees, how much money she earns and what was the biggest brand deal she has ever turned down.
'There is no way in hell I'm ever going to answer that question, and I'm sure that if I turned around to the interviewer and asked them the same thing, they would be uncomfortable,' she said.
'I don't think you should ask people about money, that's just how I was raised.'
Sophia added that she felt the attending media had the 'sole purpose' of 'trying to 'catch people out with tricky questions' to elicit 'juicy' answers.
'But some of the questions were really good so thank you to the interviewers that had good questions prepared,' she noted.
Sophia's answers were not included in the video that was uploaded to Pedestrian's TikTok.
One familiar face to answer the question was Sydney socialite Suzan Mutesi, who said that she turned down a $5000 payment from a brand because she felt 'she deserves more.'
Sophia's eight-minute video has been liked more than 32,000 times, with hundreds of attending media, influencers, and even Abbie Chatfield weighing in on the debate.
Elsewhere in her video, she said AFW has been 'a bit of a s*** show in general', noting that the Carriageworks venue had changed the standard layout for 2025.
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