N21 by ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA SPRING SUMMER 2026

Overlays, obsessions. Creative rituals too, yet ones that also concern life and everyday living. Hardly reassuring, though, for in the secret folds of references meanings quietly turn upside down. And then, further still, there are the images. If it were possible to recount the Spring Summer 2026 collection Alessandro Dell’Acqua did for N21 with a sole image, it would be that of a woman with an ultra simple beauty as it rests more upon personality than on mere physical appearance. A woman who wears a sheer chiffon dress with side slit going from underarm all the way to below the knee, a dress coming over a black chiffon skirt which, in turn, has brocade shorts underneath; while showing through at bust is an embroidered lace bra, in addition to wilted-flower pins in chiffon, or hand-fashioned floral pins in a steel plate material. And to conclude, a sweater over shoulders with sleeves around neck. It’s the story of a magnificent obsession told through airy light, see-through layering. ALESSANDRO DELL’ACQUA, N21 CREATIVE DIRECTOR «I set out from a desire to reinterpret the images of the last century’s many profitable decades of aesthetic variables which fill the mind of every creative; and, in an iconoclastic impulse, got the urge to rethink all the classical shapes that marked women’s fashion for years and years. So, to achieve this collection I chose to forgo all symptoms of nostalgia, transforming them rather into a choral tale of experiences of fashion and design. In addit