Was Kim Kardashian wrong to bring baby North West to Kanye’s Adidas show? Half the crowd thought so, judging by their faces during North’s tantrum. Our fashion editor disagrees
What is it about taking kids to catwalk shows that makes people so cross? I don’t get it. You can take kids to music festivals, you can take them to fancy restaurants, you can take them to far-flung corners of the world, and the world will look on and think: that’s cool, it’s all good life experience. But take them to Somerset House for a London Fashion Week catwalk show? Cue more pious outrage than that time Michael Jackson dangled his kids out of a hotel window.
Does it make people cross because they think you are using the kid as an accessory to attract attention, like a new pair of Sophia Webster shoes? This would make sense if the fashion industry was peopled only by neurotic loners who use their ovens for shoe storage and have no human contact between one show season and the next, but in reality this workforce has a disproportionately high rate of working mothers. So, perhaps it makes people cross because they believe fashion is inherently morally degenerate, and therefore the front row no more of a place for a child than a crack den? Um, run that one by me? Because I fail to see how the next generation will be inexorably corrupted by early exposure to the return of the high-waisted trouser.