After more than 65 runway shows, countless hair and make-up sessions and probably a couple of backstage meltdowns, Fashion Week wraps up for another year on Friday.
 
The man who created the annual event 13 years ago said Aussie fashion was looking good.
 
"I think this season has been one of our particularly strong seasons over the last 13 years," Lock said.
 
"I think the event has developed a really enviable international reputation now and clearly it's positioned amongst the top five fashion weeks in the world, in terms of a real powerhouse to show creative talent."
 
Lock summed up Australian style as casual, sophisticated and chic.
 
He said Australia's southern hemisphere location meant it could showcase Spring/Summer collections ahead of the rest of the world.
 
"The Autumn/Winter collections finished in Paris in March and this is the first chance the world gets to see the new Spring/Summer collections," he said.
 
"Strategically it really works in our favour being able to show them so early."
 
While it's only autumn now, next summer is already shaping up to be a colourful one.
 
"Bright and vivid colours are going to be a key seasonal trend," Lock said.
 
"Certainly, I'm seeing a continuing focus on embellishment, particularly sequins and bejewelled garments.
 
"And also the resort influence - we've seen some great evidence of that in Zimmermann and Flamingo Sands and Hotel Bondi."
 
It seems no Fashion Week would be complete without a bit of controversy, and this year there were a few.
 
New Zealand designer Kate Sylvester apologised to returned servicemen after being accused of insulting them by adorning models with war medals at her show.
 
A 14-year-old Polish model was dumped from the event at the last minute after organisers bowed to public pressure to adopt a minimum age of 16 for its models.
 
And Australian model Stephanie Carta was pulled from a show by her own agent over concerns about her thinness.
 
Lock said the media made too much of such issues, which distracted from the real purpose of Fashion Week.
 
"We have had a few controversial issues that are of (the media's) making, not of our making," he said.
 
"These girls we have down here are beautiful, fit, young, healthy and we're a little bit sick of (the media's) constant criticism."
 
He said Fashion Week takes seriously the public's concerns about weight and age issues, but he urged the media not to make it personal.
 
"Imagine if you were a young girl and all your life you'd aspired to be a model, you're born with the genetics, you're tall, you're beautiful, you're naturally slim, and you get (the) opportunity to come here to an international fashion week and start your career, and someone points a camera at you and says you look terrible. How do you cope with that?
 
"It's all very well to keep focusing on this issue, but at what expense?
 
"Would I blame her or her parents for never wanting to have anything to do with the fashion industry again? I couldn't blame them."