About The Collection
For the concept of this collection Straetmans returned to the idea of Peter Pan: The child who wont grow up. This he translated to the stereotype of the bitter, boring and unhappy businessman who wants to return to the freedom, the fun and the unprejudiced of his childhood.
He worked - played - with the traditional businesssuit. He used colour, lines, oversizing, undersizing, fairytale-images and some typical elements of childrens clothing. With this collection he aspires to react to what he finds boring in everyday mens clothing. He started from the mans comfort zone: his business suit, and worked towards a collection, which confronts that man with a totally different kind of mens fashion, one that is colourful, fun, cute and feminine.