A highpoint was the conversation around creatives and their attitude towards reviews and criticisms of their work. While Dua Lipa said “learning to live with reviews” whether bad or good was “one of the hardest things for her to learn to deal with”, Zadie Smith took a more open approach describing criticism as “absolutely essential because it helps develop taste.”
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