It may not be Paris or Milan or New York but I got a buzz from being (almost) front row at the Vogue Emporium Spring@Emporium fashion parade. It was a fabulously fashionable excuse to dress up and leave the office early!

While fashions from the Emporium precinct retailers showed off a new season’s wardrobe of tribal prints, romantic pastels in lace and ankle-skimming silk, I was more impressed with the timeless style agenda of other guests.

The polished elegance of a professional businesswoman in a mauve pleated skirt blended easily with an equally confident young woman wearing a softly draped, low-backed cream cocktail dress, in amongst others whose fashions of choice included loose folds or body-con sheaths.

This proved to me that you don’t need to prescribe to the latest catwalk trends to look stylish – fashion is what you decide it’s going to be!