Alessandro Dell’Acqua has the artwork of harmonizing polarities right down to a T. His pre-fall assortment learn as an train in idiosyncratic styling, enjoying on apparently irreconcilable parts to softly break the principles of symmetry. “I don’t like going for predictable requirements,” he stated at a showroom appointment.

With out courting subversion, Dell’Acqua has a method of shuffling the playing cards of on a regular basis dressing, injecting wardrobe staples with newness and tasteful cool. Punk and bourgeois, horny and demure, polished and undone are contrasting references that he regenerates in every assortment. Including a layer of blurred gender codes additional jazzes up his disciplined but free-style mélange.

“An experiment in cohabitation,” is how the designer described his pre-fall m.o. Basic black-and-white textured tweed was infused with sequins and rendered into an off-the-cuff bomber-and-miniskirt go well with; grungy checkered wool was layered with black chiffon and lower right into a zippered blouson, paired with roomy, slouchy chinos in sturdy khaki cotton. On the identical observe, fluffy mohair jumpers have been tucked into bow-shaped ultra-minis in luscious duchesse. Tube skirts dripping in silver sequins regarded cool worn with an outsized padded jacket, whereas a horny bustier prime in wool lace got here with aspect pockets as if it have been athleisure. Barely eccentric, with loads of engaging specimens, the gathering made the case for Dell’Acqua’s consummate aptitude for mixing wearability and undone, sensuous quirk.