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Day to Night Eccentricity

Alessandro Dell'Acqua's cool girls in smeared make-up and greasy locks furiously raided the catwalk, looking fantastic in haphazard layerings of glorious hand-me-downs
Alberta Ferretti Autumn/Winter 2016 | Source: InDigital.tv
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  • Angelo Flaccavento

MILAN, Italy — Romanticism is Alberta Ferretti's comfort zone. And romanticism it was, complete with languid dresses, decadent velvets and day to night eccentricity. Yet, it got twisted with a fresh dash of sensuality, which felt relieving. The slouchy pyjamas are hardly anything new, and neither are the embroidered felts and sumptuous silks, but then again, on the topic of appropriation, Mrs Ferretti was there from day one, right before all the newfound romantics.

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