21th Februrary 2024 - Niameck Market Square
Henriette Herrlich, Toga Today
Henriette had initially cursed her luck, of the better spots she only got the open air marketplace. In February the weather wasn't really fashion friendly, Cold damp windy and miserable. Yet, she found a way. Most of her brand was all about supplying the Traditional senate clothing for the citizens, usually through nicer cloth and brighter colors than others, but in recent years her brand had been popular for families traveling abroad and wanting to show their heritage in less strict color coded attires.
Yet now, she decided to bring some of the foreign chick to her line up. Her line up was simple, fake wooden sheep the models would walk around. She bet this years whole show on Wool she acquired from Ui Cenneslaig. It had taken years of work for her to establish a stable supply chain, but the idea of organic Celtic wool sold to her customer base.
The first models walked on the stage, the tunics warm and thick, natural and colored tunics. So far so simple. What Henriette had not foreseen that even though it was a miserable gray day the plaza was almost bursting with people watching her catwalk. She was nervous, this wasn't anything like adelheids shock show. Her models stood for normal people and everyday clothing with just a little bit of luxury.
The second round started, the Models had been drapped into the actual Togae behind the stage. The first set all wore the flags of the various celtic kingdoms on them, but henriette had made sure there where a couple of Townbanners and the Uburzian flag, too. Couldn'T be too carefull pissing of every whacko in the empire.
On the third round, she had imitated the celt's Kilt Patterns. IT took forever to research that she didn't accidentally copy a real historic pattern, until she decided to just break traditional patterns completely. The result still resembled the kilts, but where different enough, some with circles now, other with just one directional strips, that they where reminiscent and yet still new.
Only in round four did she bring her shepherd's patterns, and on the big screens she showed pictures of the herds, their owners and their hometowns, before she took the stage herself:
"Fashion can bring together the world, if we let it. Bring our traditions out there, and wear your experiences back home! Show it to the naysayers that tell you you can't be fashionable and make the world a better place!"
Round five was more international flags and imagery. Toga with Moreland flag, Honey badgers, the Medusa from Medusalin, Cherry Blossoms reminiscent of Daito Art, a blossoming Chrysanthemum, an Eastern Dragon. This year was all about Traveling and bringing something back with them. at the End, Henriette once again addressed the crowd:
"Thank you all for coming, i do hope you enjoyed this years Collection! Dreams of Travelling will be available for preorder beginning next week from our official website! Shipping shall begin mid March!"