Lights, camera, no action . . . Oh, no power . .

To most of us, Balmain used to be a lovely suburb in the inner western suburbs of Sydney.
From now, 'Bal-ma' (that's how it is pronounced in French, fyi) will be the name on every one's shoulders as one helluva lot of Aussie designers are using the French houses's extended shoulder line as inspiration for their own collections.
But that's fashion for you. Not style, but fashion for you.
Pick a trend, any trend and it's bound to eventually come back. Hey, let's bring back the jumpsuit (oh, it already is); the slouchy poo-catcher 'pant' (they are too); the denim jacket (it's never gone anywhere).
Anyway you get the picture and on that note I am predicting a solid return of the velour v-neck, the skort (a skirt and short all in one thing) and fingerless gloves. Well my son has some with skulls on them, so he's got where fashion's heading . . .
Back to fashion week and we're just half way through day two and I've already been to tv land this morning to have a face applied; seen a simply strong and splendid show from Dion Lee (see my twitter posts for my feeble attempts at shooting models on the hop); endured a CBD power outage. (must have been all those GHD hair straighteners being used at the same time and enjoyed a simply pretty, girly and also very grown-up collection from Zimmermann.
The power failure sent shivers up the spine and right into the shiny dome of RAFW organiser Simon Lock, as men with headsets and security T-shirts (you know, those self-important ones?) started to tell is all to leave the building (like the entire Overseas Passenger Terminal) as 'the shows will not be going ahead'.
So, I went and paid the power bill and there we were. Front row and ready to start.
Opposite me was Vogue's Kirstie Clements, with journo Nick Leys (Nick's job is to follow KC around for the week for the paper I used to work on, The Sunday Telegraph.)
I remember doing that same thing for that very paper with models, pop stars and celebs. But at least KC will actually have something to say . . . .
So with the power restored, Zimmermann's BitterSweet Nightshade collection wasn't full of the 'cossies' we've come to expect from the label but full of very pretty, easy and layered dresses, skinny trousers in caramel with the most exquisite twisted detailing right up the legs, lots of swinging sheer jackets and yes, a series of corset-inspired one piece cossies. I really liked it. This label, boy, what a stayer . . .
Oh, and by the way, as Pip and I drove from Dion to the Zimmer's, she told me she NOT an item with Sneaky Sound System's Damon Downey (just 'best friends') even though he did phone her while we were in the car :)
Catch you soon . . . off to do a few more shows _ Illionaire, Antipodium, Alpha 60 and some radio and tv . . . not about frock week, but about dressing for the Logies . . .
Looking forward to the Diet Coke Little Black Dress Show tonight . . . . I reckon the stars will be out for this one . . .