N21 by ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA WOMEN'S SPRING SUMMER 2016 | #fashionshow

Re-live the catwalk experience on numeroventuno.com #N21SS16 "Fashion may fall head over teakettle for decades in full—Oh, the ’70s, with their suede and their slouch! Give us a ’40s tea dress! Or the ’90s slip!—but in real life, real women reach into their closets to be confronted with (if they’re lucky) a living record of any variety of eras. Alessandro Dell’Acqua leaned into this reality with his collection for Spring. “It’s inspired by Corinne Day—so ’90s—and the fabulous Tina Modotti,” the designer said backstage before the show. Modotti, the actress and photographer, died nearly half a century before Day’s iconic snaps of Kate Moss, which gives an idea of the temporal range Dell’Acqua was working with. “It’s about inverting images, overlapping and reworking, masculine and feminine, and quite sexy,” said the designer. There were macramé dresses in soft pastel shades, crepe pinafores, and cotton lace with chantilly overlay, all in various stages of tumbling off the body to illustrate Dell’Acqua’s point—though this was less an overt va-va-voom take on “sexy” than a slightly quiet, Manic Pixie Dream Girl one. (The diamond tiaras tangled in some models’ hair aided in the latter notion.) Caban-style jackets boasted Latin-inspired ruffles and pom-pom trims; narrow overalls came in lace; wrap skirts made of strips of python leather and worn with striped boxy tops resembled nothing so much as a backgammon board—and oh, the rules of love! There were also, worn under nearly eve