N21 by ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA WOMEN'S SPRING SUMMER 2017 | #fashionshow

Re-live the catwalk experience on numeroventuno.com #N21SS17 "What does femininity mean in 2016? Gender is an issue that’s moved to the forefront of fashion, from the increasingly shared runways to our increasingly shared closets; Barneys New York featured trans models in its Spring 2014 (http://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/designer/no-21)? The concept is not far from anyone’s mind as it is. There comes a time in every person’s life when she has to face up to the fact that she will never be all things to all people. That doesn’t, however, mean that her wardrobe can’t do some of the heavy lifting. With his exuberant Spring collection, Dell’Acqua attempted to fill that gap, and to dress the ever-evolving modern power woman. Here were dresses both tough and feminine, sporty and delicate, light and dark. “It’s a new attitude,” said Dell’Acqua backstage, surveying net hems on macramé dresses and bow-topped pumps highlighted with fluorescent tape, sequined tube skirts, feather-trimmed scuba-tops, and tulle-lined anoraks. This was clothing for a woman who’s ready for anything and nothing; a woman for whom printed silks and macramé lace became piled-up skirts and pocketed bombers. It was a decidedly modern take, if not a totally unfamiliar one: Dell’Acqua is not the first (nor will he be the last) designer to have felt the influence of Chitose Abe’s work at Sacai. But it was in the unabashed celebration of femininity where things really gelled: the tiered silk and sequined skirts, t