The Mercedes Australian Fashion Week has started in Sydney. And I just love the way these fashion festivals have become visual spectacles of crazy artistic non wearable garments, skimpy circus acts, extravagant stage shows and inflated hero worshipping. It’s so wild and outrageous and extreme. But don’t get me wrong, I love it!

I’m no hardcore fashionista, but I really enjoy ogling at beautiful clothes, and looking at how colours, styles, textures, and moods arrive from the “fashion” world and then permeates into the rest of the “design” world to define what’s visually cool and fashionable in popular culture. Ha, who am I kidding. I like clothes.

Photographs from Six6 Photography and SMH.