N21 by ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA WOMEN'S FALL WINTER 2019 | #fashionshow

Re-live the catwalk experience on numeroventuno.com #N21FW19 "From the angle you’re looking at it, this collection probably looks dressed up, grown-up, and even almost pent-up: bourgeois at the front. For those in the room, however, it soon became apparent that almost every look—with the notable exception of the “new bouclé” coats (extra wispily finished) in black and white, of which Alessandro Dell’Acqua was especially proud—was either cut open or left open at the rear: kinky at the back? Sort of. None of these looks were designed to be worn on the street as they were on the runway. The handsome gabardine-and-gold trench coats with cut-outs across the shoulder that revealed the bra straps and shoulders of the wearer were zip-up-able. You could pull up that half-fallen-down red cashmere sweater simply by hoicking your shoulders into it and zipping it at the spine. To lessen the NSFW impact of an otherwise finely combined long open trench over a high closed one that revealed the big knickers worn below, the classy choice would be to wear some pants. And so forth. Whether worn as a suggestive midpoint somewhere between dressed and undressed or zipped up and done up, this was a collection bulging with merchandise worth heavy-breathing over. The ragged-pattern lace—which mirrored the disarray of that bouclé—and the richly embellished silks were precision-cut to punctuate the form within. Dell’Acqua said he had been inspired by Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill, a very stylish