SPRING SUMMER 2024

Taking lines for a walk

With his unmistakable lightness, Paul Klee once described the activity of drawing as taking a line
for a walk. Lightness has always been part of Alberta Ferretti's language, who this season continues
her dialogue with women, the true driving force of aloof her work, taking a whole series of lines
on a journey: stripes, ribbons, nets, intarsia. It is a journey, as always, made of impalpable balances
and contrasts, strong-willed yet delicate, subtle but incisive.

The collection is twofold: on the one hand it is pragmatic, on the other delicate and dreamy,
in both cases seductive. The journey openswith a series of fresh cotton shirts and trousers
enhanced by the rhythm of bold stripes on lightblue backgrounds. These are accompanied by suits
airing wide trousers and constructed jackets. The silhouette is fluid and vertical, either very
short or very long. Pockets are both a decorativeand functional element, placed on the hips like
peplums or belts.

This precision with a softly masculine bend soon gives way to the draping and impalpable
lightness which is Alberta Ferretti’s very personal signature. However, the usual soft
femininity acquires a new sensuality. Braidedchains run along operings and necklines, while
drawstrings allow one to adapt the shape to the body, revealing it more or less decisively.
It is the woman who decides; it is on her feelings that everything is shaped.