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The host of Liverpool’s inaugural fashion week is having a terrible time with the crowd. “Shhh, everybody. Shhh!” he pleads, scanning for his co-host, Bianca Gascoigne, who is chatting in the corner. The host has misread his audience. They’re not here to be quiet – this is Liverpool, not Paris. The final straw comes when a curvy girl – all pale-pink taffeta, impeccably bronzed legs and peroxide hair weaves – scrambles onto the catwalk, past Alex Curran, who is sitting in the front row, to get to her friend on the other side. Our man tries a new tactic: humour. “Skinny models only on this catwalk,” he says. The joke crashes through the floor. Kerplunk. “Who is that?” says a girl in a velvet catsuit, under her breath. “Worranidiot!”