N21 by ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA WOMEN'S FALL WINTER 2023-24 | #FashionShow

Unsatisfaction and inadequacy, existential unease and habitual nonchalance: attitude counts more than clothes. Idem for that body language which all on its own can at once talk about and strike down clichés. Turning the norm into an opportunity for change, shaking up what’s routine; and taking references, too, back to an unsettling collocation, in no way didactic, to put certitudes in crisis. The N21 Fall/Winter 2023-24 collection challenges the whole notion of the clothes and milieus, the cultural customs that mark the life and the women’s fashion of our times. Alessandro Dell’Acqua, creative director of N21. «I began working on this collection with in mind two female figures from 1960s Michelangelo Antonioni movies who seem to me quite emblematic of modern day: Monica Vitti and Jeanne Moreau in the La notte (The Night), or even just Vitti in Deserto rosso (Red Desert). Those were the years of the questioning and dissatisfaction people experienced as a result of major socioeconomic gains. Yet they were also the years of the discovery of sensuality, eroticism even, along with the use – daring for the period – of cunning and treachery. They were the years when provincial and middle-class Italian clichés fell apart in face of a changing world. Today what sparks my interest is the same inclination for seeking the new without hiding in any comfort zone of certitudes. And that’s why I put together a lot of clichés of the feminine wardrobe, so as to better identify them, shake the