Gemma Bidstrup: My day with Amore & Sorvete swimwear and Poppy Lissiman I'm just going to come out and say it: I have a girl crush on Poppy Lissiman. Yep, I have a 'gush'. So let me get my gushing over with before I start my review of her joint PFF parade with bathers label Amore + Sorvete. Models walk the runway at the Amore & Sorvette Swimwear and Poppy Lissiman show. Poppy is awesome. I love what she wears, I love what she posts. She's the only other person I know who wants to own a ferret and she navigates Microsoft Paint better than I do with a degree in Photomedia. I love that her store has a little tray of chocolates on the counter next to where you pay, as if you needed anything further to sweeten the deals her racks of eclectic clothes offer. The first time I walked in there I'm pretty sure my heart rate increased to speeds not known since I had three coffees at breakfast and then decided to watch the Season 3 finale of Breaking Bad. Ok I've gushed enough. On with the show. Amore + Sorvete opened with model Evelyn Leckie purring and pawing her way down the catwalk in an intricate, beaded necklace in place of a bikini top. It was a hot tone to set but the rest of the collection played in tune. There were colours, ruffles, patterns and crafty cuts. There was everything you wanted to see in a fun and flirty bathers range, including what the pieces look like on exceptionally hot bodies. The only gripe I had was with the headscarves. While I loved the way they were tied to look like floppy bunny ears as the girls walked, I made the mistake of wearing a headband to the beach once in the summer of 2008. That decision haunted me in the shape of a ghostly white tan line until the following summer. With her personal label currently on hold due to increasing Australian production costs, Poppy Lissiman presented the best from her store. Her soundtrack was kicking and so were the kicks the models wore. There were metallics, plastics, holographics - fantastic! Her attention to detail was spectacular, with every outfit flamboyantly accesorised and a provocative abstract visual diary playing on a screen as a backdrop to the show. She did her obligatory closing lap in a t-shirt emblazoned 'WHATEVER' which for me epitomises her offbeat style: Fashion is fun. Don't take it so seriously. Ferrets are cool. Whatever.