Sydney reserves seventh spot for popularity

Photo: Bob Pearce Sydney is becoming one of the world's most fashionable cities -but one of the worst if you want to park your car. The latest snapshots of Australia's biggest city came in theresults of two separate studies looking at trends around theglobe. In the style stakes, Sydney leapfrogged five places to seventhspot in the Global Language Monitor's (GLM) top fashion cities while Melbourne dropped three to 18th. Advertisement: Story continues below New York claimed first place for the fifth consecutive yearfollowed by Rome, Paris, Milan, London and Los Angeles. On a regional basis, Sydney was judged best dressed in the AsiaPacific ahead of Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore andMelbourne. GLM, which based its findings on how often relevant fashionwords and phrases were used in the media and on the internet inrelation to certain cities, described Sydney's elevation as"notable". "Our yearly rankings clearly reinforce recent Rosetta Stone Korean trends: the bigfive (New York, Rome, Paris, Milan and London), far and awaydominate the world of fashion, especially in the eyes of the printand electronic media, as well as on the internet," GLM's fashioncorrespondent Millie Lorenzo said. "At the same time, the second tier of the cities in the worldfashion rankings are coming on strong." But while Sydney's style ratings are improving, the city has amajor image problem when it comes to car parking. A study by property group Colliers International found Sydney'scentral business district was the third most expensive in the worldto park. Londoners were the worst off, having to fork out $US1,167($A1,1.61) a month in the city's main financial district. London's famous West End theatre district claimed second spotahead of Sydney, where monthly fees were $US774.76 ($A797.73) and$US54.47 ($A56.) a day. Brisbane wasn't far behind in fifth spot with $US591.63($A6.17) monthly fees while Perth was the eighth most expensiveat $US516.00 ($A531.30) and Melbourne the 11th at $US493.03($A507.65). "Australia's booming resource based economy and surging currencyis the primary driver of these high parking costs," Colliers'market and economic research senior vice president, Ross Moore,said.

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