N21 by ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA WOMEN'S FALL WINTER 2021 | #fashionshow

Re-live the catwalk experience on numeroventuno.com #N21FW21 "Design, project, execution. An insight into the recovery of physicality after months of forced digitization and requisite social distancing. The N21 collection for fall/winter 2021-22 springs from a powerful attraction, an instance of fascination. It also proposes a particular method. From the atmospheres perceived in the polaroid shots of Carlo Mollino, great Italian designer, architect and photographer eclectic of personality, comes the redefinition of a physicality that becomes expression of the modest and intuitively felt sensuality typical of the Italian bourgeoisie; from a request for physicality come the redesign of a snug silhouette and the reassuring touch of natural materials; from a return to physicality comes the need to express oneself through striking, eye catching details: sheer fabrics, lace cloth, glimpses of underwear, hints of lingerie, shiny surfaces. As for the method, it’s emblematic of a clearly Italian project: one that combines, brings together as a whole, apparently contrasting elements. For this N21 collection that means envisioning a human figure which all while involving two genders uses the same clothes to convey their differences. With elements measured, interpreted, underlined for women and for men. Alessandro Dell’Acqua, N21 creative director. «A Carlo Mollino photograph got me to thinking about a form of aesthetics that the great Italian architect imbued also into the attitudes an