N21 by ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA WOMEN'S FALL WINTER 2017 | #fashionshow

Re-live the catwalk experience on numeroventuno.com #N21FW17 "Alessandro Dell’Acqua took the archetypal Italian fashion muse Anna Magnani as his starting point this evening, and then fascinatingly calibrated her siren signals by relocating her to the U.S. This was a conceit based on truth—around 1955 Magnani went to Florida to shoot the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Dell’Acqua directed his own cast-in-cloth remake with an evident passion for both his muse and the customer he hopes to inspire. Red, baby blue, and rusty apricot open-backed high-necked mid-length chiffon dresses and dense-woven volumized sweaters were interspersed with herringbone suiting, coats, and skirts lightly sprinkled with studs and Swarovski. A lace-edged sweetheart neckline black dress was set with embellishment, and its right shoulder strap fell with purpose from its apparent rightful position. It was molto bello. The transatlantic theme was evident on a herringbone jacket hemmed in ribbed baseball trim with a zipped college cardigan lining. A narrow skirt in Old World check was corseted at the waist by a New World varsity trim with an exhalation of printed silk billowing above it. Although there was a strong sense of the contrast between the two mid-century styles he was referencing—casual American varsity and tailored post–New Look Italian Catholic—there was never any hint of tension, even when a soignee skirt was worn