N21 by ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA SPRING SUMMER 2024 WOMEN'S FASHION SHOW

N21 by ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA SPRING SUMMER 2024 WOMEN'S FASHION SHOW The dual soul of Naples, a non linear city with a rich multiplicity where the aristocracy leads and directs what makes for popular nature and the people tell personal stories with sincere eroticism. Stratified culture and carnality. All in a one and only image that lives on contrasts, albeit free of contradictions. The No. 21 Spring-Summer 2024 collection talks about life episodes that overlap, experiences that complete one another; and joins couture fabrics and embossed chiffons, references to wedding dresses and severity of the widow uniform. Alessandro Dell’Acqua, Creative Director of N21. «I have no fear of using and processing clichés: for me Napoli is not an experience, it’s my home town, represents my origins. It’s upon my own supply of knowledge of this city where everything overlaps that I built the fanciful vision of an airy light upbeat collection. I set together aristocratic and popular souls, culture and carnality, false morality and bold natural sensuality, casting with one thought to the world-famous Cristo Velato del Sammartini sculpture and another to San Lorenzo, the neighborhood that includes the Sanservero Chapel Museum that holds it, along with all the local contradictions. From here emerge the trompe l’oeil effects that lie not in the image but in the form. Pursuing this path I got help from fabrics and materials that I used out of context.» The Collection. Actually a trompe l’oei