How the Lisa Ho fashion empire buckled after 30 years THE morning of April 10 was a warmer than usual autumn day. It would provide the perfect backdrop to launch the much anticipated Lisa Ho ready-to-wear spring-summer 2013-14 collection at the annual Mercedes-Benz Fashion Show. A roomful of celebrities, fashionistas and store buyers packed into the foyer of the Art Gallery of NSW to see what they didn't know they were witnessing: perhaps the last collection from one of Australia's most successful fashion designers.