MILAN (AP) — Alessandro Dell’Acqua’s No. 21 assortment for subsequent spring and summer season, offered Wednesday throughout Milan Vogue Week, is a research in lightness, as a hedge towards the heavy instances.
“I believe that in moments of heaviness and uncertainty, sometimes taking a moment of lightheartedness and clearing your mind a bit can be good for you,” Dell’Acqua said backstage. ”For this reason I made it so mild.”
Nowhere was the idea extra at play than in chiffon petal cutouts that have been sewn collectively in ruffles on clothes, or as a collar across the neck, rustling delicately with the motion. Dell’Acqua additionally created wilted flowers out of chiffon that he pinned on clothes, “as if forgotten by time.”
The lightness allowed Dell’Acqua to layer amply. Plaid kilts have been underpinned by petticoat layers. Prairie skirts with a giant hem ruffle have been tied prettily on the waist. Silken slip clothes have been worn one atop the opposite.
The gathering was a treasure chest of female silks and sheers contrasted with huge masculine denim trousers and grey man’s sweaters tied across the neck within the type of the Milanese bourgeoisie.
“That is about romance, but in addition about modernity,” he mentioned.
