Australia more fashionable than NZ

Reuters

NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Models wear creations from the Bill Blass Fall/Winter 2008/2009 collection by designer Peter Som at the presentation of the collection during New York Fashion Week.

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Wellington and Auckland have failed to make it onto a list of the world's most fashionable cities, but Australian cities Sydney and Melbourne have made the cut.

Sydney leapfrogged five places to seventh spot on the Global Language Monitor's top fashion cities for 2008 while Melbourne's dropped three places to 18th.

New York claimed first place for the fifth consecutive year, followed by Rome, Paris and Milan.

"Our yearly rankings clearly reinforce recent trends:  the Big Five (New York, Rome, Paris, Milan, and London), far and away dominate the world of fashion, especially in the eyes of the print and electronic media, as well as on the internet," said Millie Lorenzo Payack, Fashion Correspondent and Director of the Global Language Monitor. 

"At the same time, the second tier of the cities in the world fashion rankings are coming on strong,"

The list was compiled by tracking words and phrases in print and electronic media, on the Internet and throughout the blogosphere.

With AAP

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