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SYDNEY — Great weather, Insta-friendly show locations and a slew of recent faces delivered the excitement at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week, whose resort 2024 collections showcase wrapped on Friday at Sydney’s Carriageworks venue.  A complete of 43 shows featured some 54 designers, not including the #WeWearAustralian finale, which showcased 88 brands. The general public purchased tickets for seven shows through organiser IMG’s two-year-old consumer initiative AAFW: The Experience.  A lot of participating brands are celebrating milestones: midmarket retailer Cue, 55 years in business; Aje, 15 years, and Michael Lo Sordo and Anna Quan, each a decade. Nevertheless, the schedule was heaving with latest names, 10 of them leapfrogging over the event’s traditional entry-level group shows to make their solo runway debuts. They included...