Strenesse Blue: Well-behaved clothes for well-behaved people
by Liz McGrath posted on January 29, 2009The show got off to a cool start, with the catwalk lit up acquamarine-blue and a trumpet player coming out and playing a jazz song live on stage. Then the music kicked in and top model Katrin Thormann opened the show- wearing a fedora-style hat with long fluffy wavy hair billowing underneath it – which was to remain the main look of the show. The first styles were distinctly 70’s, such as fuschia pink velvet trousers and matching pink satin shirt – the same look later reappeared in turquoise – certainly not for the wallflowers of this world.
However then a more softer gentler feeling came in, with skirts, dresses and jackets in muted tones of camels, browns and dusky pinks. There were a lot of fur and sheepskin jackets, vests and capes, as well as a great deal of tweed. From a 70s feeling, the clothes started moving towards a distinctly 1940’s era – with high-necked tea-dresses, smart tweed jackets, delicate-flower patterned skirts, little cardigans and jumpers and checked skirts. It had a rather English-eccentric, mix-and-match feel about it – but unfortunately it verged on the boring at times, a little too ‘goody-goody’ or ‘well-behaved’ in it’s approach. There was nothing very innovative or daring, and certain pieces such as a loose-fitting black leather mini-dress just simply didn’t fit in with the rest of the collection.
The men also looked like very good boys indeed – mostly all in buttoned up shirts, ties, and round necked jumpers. One beautifully-cut caramal leather biker jacket added a bit of much-needed edge – generally the guys verged on the ‘Granddad’ look a little too much for my tastes – Strenesse Blue is after all meant to be the ‘younger’ of the Strenesse labels – however these clothes could easily be worn by men and women in their late 40s – presumably not the target age group.
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