For starters, the point of Fashion Week in Sydney versus New York or Paris is that the playing field is levelled. There's as much pressure to get into, say, the Camilla show as there would be those designers with less hype (and cultural appropriation ), like Double Rainbouu or Lee Mathews . That's because their fashion community, albeit mighty, is small. What Aussie runways may lack in crowd size (at any given show, rows stop at two or three) they make up for in scenery. Standout venues were offsite from Carriageworks — what would be their Lincoln Center or Bryant Park (RIP) — like Emilia Wickstead x MatchesFashion.com on the shores of Coogee or Ten Pieces , whose backdrop was the Bondi Icebergs