Sitting in the drizzle waiting for Avenir to start, I watched a cool young woman walking around just outside the show’s open-air venue, thinking that with her mass of dark curls and coolly weathered purple leather coat she was bound to be in the runway lineup. Avenir designer Sophie Claussen had chosen to show on a side street near Potsdamer Platz, and the late Tuesday afternoon throb of Berlin was all around us. Meanwhile, a rocking band had started playing on the street, and mid-beat, the drummer put her sticks down, got up, then slipped her bare feet into a pair of lime green mules—which happened to match her equally vivid lime green knit top and fluid pants—before walking down the street that served as the runway.
So that then was Look 1. Before long, she was joined by the likes of a guy hurriedly navigating the same street in a jacket constructed out of a pair of inverted khakis, worn with matching regular khakis, cut with a loose, laidback confidence that I am realizing is very Berlin. Then there was a deep green nylon utility shirt striated with dark diagonal dashes, worn with a matching sack bag, both over yet more super-slouchy trousers.
And then an upbeat lemon yellow knit polo shirt worn with a skirt made out a crisp cotton shirt in the same shade of yellow. At one point, a model strolled out wheeling a bike, while another was steering one of those granny-like wheeled shopping carts. All of this was delivered with a combination of ease and attitude that I am .
