N21 by ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA FALL WINTER 2026 WOMEN'S FASHION SHOW

The photography book of an artist who is probing intimacy through things. And also, scenes from a film. Names: Sophie Calle, who takes a job for three weeks in a hotel and who, while servicing the rooms, photographs the objects and clothes left in the closets, in suitcases, on chairs, afterward putting it all together in the book The Hotel. And then: Federico Fellini, who succeeds in making the final parade in 8 ½ the parade of innocent vanities. «And so, the film ends? No, that’s how it begins,» goes the final dialogue between Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) and Claudia (Claudia Cardinale), who manages to give a conclusive sense to the protagonist’s creative disorder. Ultimately, therefore, a naturally aware femininity and its distinct variability are what accord meaning to the N21 Fall-Winter 2026 collection. Which so becomes an investigation that’s voyeuristic yet not naughty, all while assuming the shapes and volumes of the pioneering fashion aesthetic of the 1940s. ALESSANDRO DELL’ACQUA, N21 CREATIVE DIRECTOR «I’d like to talk about about a possible, everyday femininity. Minus any form of superstructure. But also without hiding the sources of inspiration behind it. It’s a matter of creative truth, what led me to describe the aesthetic elements of female clothing through the photos that, pretending to be chambermaid and with an act of innocent voyeurism, Sophie Calle shot in 1981 in a hotel in Venice. These images, sensations and simple truths of women seen in an e