SYDNEY, Apr 28, 2006/ FW/ --- Day three of Mercedes Australian Fashion Week and a few issues have definitely emerged along with trends and decisive fashion.

Josh Goot continued the ‘tailored comfort’ concept with ease and impeccable style, New Zealanders Zambesi debuts swimwear with sun glowing freedom and Tina Kalivas is sexy and filled with 50’s misbehavior.

The unofficial word on the street is that Goot is leaving Oz for New York. So as this twenty something rising star begins to really shine he may well be on his way to new shores and new fame. Yet unfortunately for most Australian designers who intend to make it big internationally, an international stage is required for both maturity and design growth, making it sadly almost essential that leave home for far away shores.

Goot turns simplicity into urban vastness as jersey and Merino Viscose suits are tailored, shaped and wrapped in all their comfortable glory to expose the technological awareness that is the essence of today’s metropolis.

Summer is abundant in his bold decisive use of two tone colour where pinks, greens and oranges come to life and elevate 80’s inspired summer dresses that emerge as something fresh and clean.

Sporty and sexy, this confident spring summer 2006/07 collection is the continuation of Goot’s evolution and maturity that both buyers and press are mad about.

Backstage at Zambesi there was a quiet confidence of tough chic and a buzz of excitement surrounding their latest summer collection.

The 1960’s soundtrack from the film ‘Never on Sunday’ reminds designer Liz of growing up, about carefree fun and relaxed spontaneity, leaving nothing less than a feeling of fluidity to wander throughout the Zambesi Spring Summer 2006 collection.

With the subtle introduction of swimwear against the backdrop of their staple signature blacks, new whites, bright canary yellow and free blues add hints of summer glory and gold flickers to must have flawless Zambesi worked pieces.

Vintage prints and textiles highlight even more than usual their lightweight freedom philosophy with an unperturbed feel of natural artless charm.

Planning to head to the US in May perhaps to broaden their horizons and hopefully unleash the secrets of the Southern hemisphere, Zambesi is quickly destined to make a huge splash from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.

Ex Alexander McQueen Kalivas caters for those women who like a little fifties style with an edge. ‘Gaggle of Girls’ spring summer 2006 is cheeky and surrealistic.

Despite superseding the smarter choice of leaving the all too common S&M framework at home, Kalivas did pack a tight and well-edited show of sexy party dresses with frilly hemlines and high waists.

Pussycat purrs and suit stripes are part of a thin silhouette made up of tailored jackets and tulip volumes, baby doll cuteness and tight pencil skirt naughtiness. Kalivas plays with mystery and secret desires by making women’s clothes made by a woman who knows what she wants and who know what it takes to ultimately get it.

And then there was Matthew Eager with his signature long dresses, the street urban soul of Tight Knickers who can be praised for innovative graphics and One Teaspoon to take over the commercial early twenty something market.

Matthew Eager creates girly tailored shapes with frilly and ruffled hemlines. Though he perhaps took the eighties trend just a little too far with the full gold sequined dresses looking more like glow mesh purses rather than sexy evening alternatives, he does make a pretty dress.

US born Tight Knickers, despite primitive PR capabilities puts a mean phrase on a T-shirt, and while in a society where everyone has something to say what a better place to stick it but all over your wardrobe. Urban timing makes this street wear label stocked in over 300 stores worldwide a success to the thousands that love their graphic interpretation and soft track pant jeans. Bling, rock and roll and cheeky chicks still have an impressive slice of the market share.

One Teaspoon puts their labels on the outside of their garments so as to be distinguished from the other cheap looking clothing out there. But in the sustaining of their fashion victim affordability (rarely do their clothes retail for more than A$250) they are a favourite among the young crowd.

Gold metallic rose prints on sheer black are for evenings while small shorty Shanghai floral printed jumpsuits make up the daywear with the occasional butterfly sleeved shrug layered on top to keep one a little warmer in the summer breeze. But then again summer is for flaunting not appropriateness, especially when you are under 25. So as old time Australian singing legend Leo Sayer sang his heart out for the closing exits, one had to smile. Bad is not always ghastly.