SYDNEY, May 8, 2003/ FW/ --- Wayne Cooper was inspired by Hollywood for his Spring 2004 collection presented last Tuesday at Wharf 1.

If Mark Wahlberg and Heather Graham were in the audience, they will easily recognize the references to their blockbuster movie.

Beehive hair, jersey fabrics, low keyhole necklines, slashed sleeves and mini-skirts are all reminiscent of the 1970s, the same decade that Boogie Nights was based.

The show also had the decadence of that decade with the disco atmosphere complete with smoke machines and projection screen.

To say that it was not a good show would be giving the designer a disservice. Because it was truly a well planned and well excuted presentation.

The problem lies in the fact that nothing was original.

The Giorgio Armani presentation in Milan which used a projection screen to show close-ups of the model's faces is still fresh in the mind of the international fashin journalists.

The mirror on the runway is a maintstay on John Galliano's shows, both for Dior and his own label.

The confetti had been used by Tom Ford very recently. And the smoke machine - well... let us just say that Guy Laroche recently used that tactic too.

The show was all about night life, which is very obvious from the stage setting.

Wayne Cooper did not forget that there are summer days also, and that Australia is famous for its beaches.

The designer sent sexy looking swimwear on the runway, worthy of a Miss Universe walk during the swimwear competition.