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They say the worst thing is arriving at an event to find that someone is in the same dress as you. I beg to differ. The worst thing is arriving at an event to find that the designer who made the dress you’re wearing is there, and better yet … seated opposite you. Yes, as I’m guessing you’ve concluded, this happened to me.

Two weeks ago during the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival in fact. Culprit: me. Designer: Leona Edmiston. Arriving at a runway show hosted by the gorgeous inner city shopping Mecca GPO, I was sat opposite none other than the Wrap Dress Queen on the runway. Me, who lives in her printed jersey dresses, had no idea she would be showing her collection at the showcase and on the day of the parade, slipped into one of her feminine rose and leopard print numbers.

Not often star struck – unless around favourite authors or Trinny and Susannah - I almost broke out in a sweat imagining her shock to see one of her frocks on a less than modelesque specimen. Had I accessorised as she’d have imagined? Was I the type of person she envisaged in her brand? Far away from each other to not be able to smell respective fragrances yet close enough to see the detail in each others dresses, I spent a considerable amount of the show avoiding eye contact and focusing on looking cool, as opposed to viewing what was cool for the new season.

After the show was over she disappeared seamlessly (despite standing out from the crowd in a signature colourful dress with equally bright opaques), and I couldn’t help but wonder whether her sudden exit resulted from insult by in my choice of (currently in-store) attire. I don’t know what the big deal was really. Her minder come up to me at the end of the show, put her hand on my shoulder and whispered, ‘well don’t you look lovely” in acknowledgement. But I can honestly tell you, I’d much rather have turned up in the same dress as someone else!