'Paris Comes to Sydney: Lavish French Exhibition at Royal Show' shows Australian enthusiasm for all things French at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney in 1956.

3AW Melbourne radio comperes Peter Ellis and Judy Willing gush over a 'superb' Paris frock worn by Helen Wiseman at The Stork Club in Melbourne in 1947.

The Australian Woman's Weekly magazine brings together top French and Australian models ('mannequins') with the latest Paris fashions at Sydney's Trocadero nightclub in 1948.

In a huge moment for Australian fashion, this was the first time original fashions designed by Christian Dior were seen outside Paris.

Take your front row seat for this collection which illuminates postwar Australia through glorious vintage fashion.

Graham Kennedy plays tourist in Paris, with the Arc de Triomphe in the background.