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VOGUE Article

This was an article on Alberta Ferretti and her fashion show. They talk of her setting or bringing back a new trend with slip dresses and bold prints. She induldged in giving women back the clothes that fit and look good at any stage of life and not the stick pin high school age body. The clothes were classic yet they gave a new twist that any young or old person would love. They were crafted not to look like any other clothing on the market. It was well done and I would love to wear some of her pieces.

Alberta Ferretti/ Spring 2012by Sarah Mower

Welcome to Milan, where we are two shows down and one trend up, within

the space of three hours. Incoming at Gucci at 3:00 p.m., Frida Giannini

led with gilded Deco flapper dresses, and by 5:00 p.m., there was

Alberta Ferretti dealing out drop-waists, swishy Daisy Buchanan-ish box-

pleats, and plenty of fagotting. (That’s the term, of course, for the

sewing technique which joins two fine linen fabrics together with a

sheer panel, much used in vintage nightwear and lingerie.) Why would

this be so? Who knows, but in this city of sellable clothes, a double-

quick assimilation of Marc Jacobs’s vague conceptual leanings towards a

low-waisted skirt silhouette already seems to be making its way through

the system.For a house with foundations in chiffony, floaty things,

fixing on lingerie as a subject seemed an appropriate trope for a season

in which Ferretti perennially finds solutions for summery occasions:

weddings, outdoor parties, family gatherings, and the like. As a white

spaghetti-strapped dress with inserts of lace came out, one thought

again about the return of the bias-cut slip-dress—last in its heyday

during nineties-grunge glory days on the likes of Kate Moss and Courtney

Love (not to mention, Marc Jacobs, back in his Perry Ellis days).With

one eye on the classically pretty, and another on the undercurrents of

fashion, Ferretti was smart to tune into that—and she played plenty of

airs on the theme. She does solid-sheer detail in forgiving shapes, too.

If you’re nearer the matriarch than the waif-stage of life, you will

still be able to count yourself amongst the fashionably fagotted in

Ferretti’s airy linen trenchcoats and pajama-like pantsuits. Lingerie-

redux wasn’t the only trend Ferretti covered. Within this collection,

she also inclined her head toward the African-cum–tropical beading and

exotic palm-prints, which are replicating themselves ever more densely

over the collections. Some of her halter-dresses, colorblocked in grass

green, brown, and spicy tomato were strong, wearable, modern examples of

the subtle things Italian knitwear manufacturers can do. As for the

tropical prints? At this stage of the collections cycle it feels like

time to reserve judgment on how attractive they’ll seem by next summer.

Fashion’s jungle telegraph has been drumming so loudly in the last two

weeks, it’s starting to cause a premature headache.

For a full profile and more information on Alberta Ferretti, go to Voguepedia.com.