Australian Fashion Week Chaos: Evacuations and Thorpes Disdain

saw chaos unfold on Thursday at the two Iordanes Spyridon Gogos shows held at the UNSW Galleries in . 

The first runway hosted by the avant-garde fashion house was held at 11am and ended in disaster when attendees were evacuated after a fire alarm went off.

Guests could be seen crowded outside the UNSW Galleries in Sydney after they were asked to leave the premises while the siren sounded. 

'The show before us at 11am was stopped early on because the fire alarm went off,' a Daily Mail reporter on the scene said.

'Apparently, some kind of cleaning product that had a chemical in it set the alarm off. So, there were fire trucks and a mass exodus when we arrived.

'And the timing was right as we - the midday show people - were arriving.'

Australian influencer Suzan Mutesi also shared footage from inside of the disastrous moment, which showed people crowding around the exits just as the show ended.

'I can't believe this... It's a fire alarm, guys. The show just ended,' she said as she followed the direction of a security guard and began evacuating. 

Photos soon emerged of a packed crowd standing around on the sidewalk outside the cleared building. 

The second showing, held at 12pm, faced a similar fate when paramedics arrived and were spotted carrying someone out of the gallery on a stretcher.  

'When we were finally in, about three quarters of the way in, a girl in the audience fainted,' the Daily Mail reporter explained. 

'They stopped the music, the models literally posed and stood still. People were just waiting for them to finally get help, and then the paramedics arrived. 

'She was taken out in a wheelchair. The paramedics brought a heat pack as well. 

'Because they stopped, and the fact that a lot of the show had already run, a lot of people took the medical emergency as a chance to dip out.'