The Tamesis
from the midsts of his Italian language Style In the archives, Alessandro Dell’ Acqua found a content in which Steven Meisel photographed the late Stella Tennant, her stylish coolness contrasting with the Devon countryside. This triggered a cultured crash in his creativity: haute nation restriction clashing head-on with the insouciance of French bourgeois bohemian posh (among his fascinations). Everything amounts to a Pre-Fall collection created in a specific stylistic shorthand, where an eccentric simplicity is blended with a tip of gloss.
Dell’ Acqua has little perseverance for abstract concepts of beauty. His variation is a well-edited clash of spirited bourgeoisie, sports grunge and cluttered beauty, all gone through by his very own stylistic permeator – he’s been recognized to avoid stylists entirely. This period’s fantastically wacky mash-ups are rooted in desirable day-to-day basics and attract the state of mind of the minute, however he’s “plainly not thinking about chasing after any kind of fads that are taking place.” The lookbook was fired in a luxurious Milanese home, all opulent mirrors and stucco ceilings; yet within such a grand structure, the collection really felt irreverently light.
Tees minidresses show up totally in tartan bangles; argyle knitwear is coupled with a pleated burnt-flower georgette skirt cut with gold string. The customizing is often brief in Royal prince of Wales check, often in extravagant gold lamé brocade. Mongolian woollen layers, cushioned parkas and loden-cut layers covered in large headscarfs were coupled with beefy chinoiserie knits with lengthy edges “as if they were plumes.”
In the guys’s collection, brocade shows up once again on overalls, coupled with an inspected turtleneck that zooms at the back. Natural leather coats, neoprene-lined sweatshirts, droopy cable-knit sweatshirts and nicely customized Royal prince of Wales layers were piled with an easygoing swagger.
Dell’ Acqua is a master of instinctive and one-of-a-kind designing, apparently insouciant yet remarkably assembled. Just how did he do it? He simply grinned like a Cheshire Feline.
