Adrian Grenier is all the Fashion in Australia

Holly Lloyd-McDonald

October 10, 2007 12:00am

IT was stars all round for the start of the three-day Australian Fashion Week yesterday. 

The trans-seasonal 2008 showing moved to Sydney this year, away from its previous home in Melbourne.

While the schedule was thin on the ground, there was still plenty to keep the fashionably attired amused, particularly when a TV heart-throb rocked up and sat in the front stalls.

Entourage star Adrian Grenier turned heads at Wayne Cooper's show, where the designer took a walk on the wild and dark side with royal purple, heaps of black and flashes of shocking pink.

Cooper seems to be back on track with fantastic cropped, wrinkled, black leather biker jackets and sexy, violet tube dresses in soft merino wool.

Alex Perry also dazzled last night with sweeping dresses in superb shapes, perfect for the summer season ahead.

But first out of the blocks for the festival was the New Generation, industry-only parade at Sydney's Overseas Passenger Terminal in Circular Quay.

Showing was Richmond designer Georgie Sutton, with her Cable Melbourne label, which she debuted almost a year ago.

Her classic-cut but sexy knitwear uses Australian wool and is manufactured in Melbourne.

"Knitwear is ageless, but a lot of it is cardigans . . . so I am doing it in a modern sense," Sutton, 28,   explained.

"It is actually very easy to manufacture locally and much better as I can keep an eye on everything."

Daniel Avakian, a young designer everyone has been whispering about in Sydney, produced a collection of cinched waists, hoop-skirted dresses and pink trims.

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