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- ↑ Official Brussels website describes Strelli as a figurehead of Belgian creativity in the upmarket, ready-to-wear range
- ↑ Shop Listings
- ↑ Strelli's short biography
- ↑ Avec l'ambition de faire accepter le port des couleurs aux "gens du nord", à une mentalité plutôt tournée vers le classique et s'attaque en premier le créneau masculin avec des chemises au style plutôt décontracté
- ↑ Listing of famous Strelli clients
- ↑ Strelli coat for queen
- ↑ Railway uniform designs
- ↑ Sales site offering Strelli-designed Sabena uniforms
Other notes taken from the biography : Olivier Strelli, passion et métissages, by Élodie de Sélys, published Éditions La Renaissance du Livre, 2006.
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