Gabriele Strehle

Gabriele Strehle , b. Hecke, (born March 11, 1951 in Memmingen ) is a German fashion designer and was the creative director of the Strenesse brand from 1975 to 2012 .

Life

Gabriele Strehle was born as the daughter of a dairy tenant and a kindergarten teacher. One of her early favorite pastimes was sewing doll clothes. After an apprenticeship as a bespoke tailor in Memmingen , she studied at the German Master School for Fashion in Munich . In 1973 she started working for the Strehle company in Nördlingen . Just two years later she took over the creative direction there. The collection of the women's outerwear brand Strenesse , which has existed since 1969, was developed by her from 1975 to 2012. In 1985 she married the owner and managing director Gerd Strehle .

From 1995 she presented her collections at the fashion shows in Milan, since 1998 under the brand name Strenesse Gabriele Strehle . In 2001 Gabriele Strehle created a more up-to-date design for the uniforms of the Deutsche Lufthansa crew. A year later she presented her men's collection for Strenesse for the first time. In September 2005 she switched her collections to New York Fashion Week . Since the 2006 World Cup, she has been dressing the German national football team with suits outside the field. Strehle's style is seen as “more angular than flowing”, she uses patterns more discreetly and color rather to emphasize black or gray tones. She describes her fashion as “straightforward and straightforward”. The form should always have a function.

Strehle and her husband have a daughter (Clara Maria Franziska Strehle (* 1990)) and lived with him on weekends in a farmhouse on Lake Tegernsee that was converted by the Parisian architect Christian Liaigre . After separating from her husband, she announced in September 2012 that she would leave the Strenesse company at the end of 2012. In 2017 she started again with a capsule collection under her name for selected individual customers, which received wide press coverage. Today she lives in Munich - Schwabing , where she used to have a pied-à-terre .

She named the economist and ecological pioneer Ernst Friedrich Schumacher as an economic role model .

Awards

• In 1996 she was awarded the “Mode Forum Prize” of the textile industry in Heidelberg.
• In 1997 she received the Order of Merit from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs.
• In 1998 she received the Federal Cross of Merit .
• In 2002 she got a Bambi .
• 2007 Bavarian Order of Merit
• 2010 Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver

literature

• Gabriele Strehle and Eva Gesine Baur : Whether I can do it. The other way to success. Heyne, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-453-35001-4 .

Movie

• Gabriele Strehle. Never golden buttons. Documentation, Germany, 2007, 44 min., Directors: Armin Toerkell, Mica Stobwasser, production: BR , summary by arte

Web links

• Official website
• Literature by and about Gabriele Strehle in the catalog of the German National Library
• “A real piece of me” , Der Spiegel , No. 51, December 15, 1997
• “Yves Saint Laurent for the Seventy: My Fashion Magician”. FAZ , August 1, 2006, archived from the original on May 30, 2015 .  , by Gabriele Strehle
• “Designer ABC: S for Strehle” , FAZ , April 26, 2006, with fashion photo corner
• Questionnaire: Gabriele Strehle , Focus , June 30, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Gabriele Strehle ( Memento from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ),
2. ↑ Who's Who. Retrieved June 1, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Gabriele Strehle - WHO'S WHO biography. Retrieved June 1, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} story , strengesse.com
5. ^ Ingrid Loschek : The fashion designer Gabriele Strehle , Goethe-Institut , October 2007.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Grit Thönnern: German dress culture. Simple, straightforward, high quality: Gabriele Strehle sells fashion “made in Germany”. It was difficult for a long time , Tagesspiegel , July 12, 2007.
7. ↑ Alfons Kaiser: It doesn't have to be fashion: a visit to Gabriele Strehle. February 27, 2013, accessed October 13, 2015 . 
8. ^ Farewell to the catwalk In: faz.net from September 14, 2012.
9. ↑ Alfons Kaiser: Gabriele Strehle is back a bit. (No longer available online.) February 14, 2018, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 1, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
10. ↑ Elizabeth Dostert: decelerates. January 23, 2018, accessed June 1, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Alfons Kaiser: It doesn't have to be fashion: a visit to Gabriele Strehle. February 27, 2013, accessed October 13, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Anne Kunze: "Avarice is stupid". The fashion designer Gabriele Strehle and the throwaway society , Die Zeit , April 8, 2010, No. 15.