Why the fashion fascination on the Peter Stewart case?

I had heard rumours that Peter Maxwell Stewart was the ‘prominent businessman’ convicted of rape. The suppression order was lifted today.
   No one in the fashion world is commenting, and I think that is right. Even I would not comment on this in Lucire. The connection is, of course, Mr Stewart’s wife, Pieter, who is the MD of New Zealand Fashion Week Ltd. This is a matter for the mainstream media, rather than the specialized fashion media.
   Despite that, I totally fail to see why publishing groups such as Fairfax have devoted so much of their room to Pieter Stewart today, as though they want to tarnish her with the same brush.
   The official announcement today does surprise me, and I feel for what the Stewart family has been put through. I also feel strong sympathy for the victim who identified Mr Stewart as the person who committed these crimes against her.
   I am saddened that it has taken over 30 years for this matter to come out in the open. Such trials always see competing stories being launched. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle unless one side is shown to be hugely unreliable. Whatever the case, 30 years seems an awfully long time.
   I do not know anything about this case beyond a tiny selection of MSM reports. Whether the complainant took 30 years to bring the matter up, or whether it was covered up through power for three decades, is not for me to say.
   All I will say is that it is not worth trying to shame an entire family when only one member of it was involved. We in the media need to be careful.