During two days, there were six discussion sessions along with a specific theme for each. This was called a”Round Table” festival. The first highlight theme was “Trend magazines or tendentious magazines?” It was the main theme which was talked about in other discussion sessions as well. From this discussion, the most notable thing was that the independent magazine’s common principle is not to be a trend magazine but to do what they want to do. Of course, realizing that the ideal brings some difficulties such as financing or distribution. However I felt that publishers were really passionate in regard to the contents of their magazine.

This discussion was conducted by all Spanish speakers and the latter part of the debate progressed almost entirely in Spanish so it was a bit difficult to follow the talk. However, the most impressive thing was that not only the speakers but also the audience took part in the discussion actively and it was very interactive.

The final discussion was conducted by a creative director of i-D, Terry Jones and a philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky. Gilles is regarded as one of the most important philosophers in the field of consumer society. They talked about fashion and consumerism from their professional points of view. Gilles said the present society is saturated with images of consumerism,while Terry mentioned there is a lot more freedom of choice, compared to twenty years ago and choice allows for people’s identity.