Dell’Acqua’s series of sheer and silk printed dresses were Italianate in their aggressively traditional femininity but would have left Tennessee Williams’s small-town gossips struck dumb by their unabashed provocativeness. Hot stuff.
Alessandro Dell’Acqua took the archetypal Italian fashion muse Anna Magnani as his starting point this evening, and then fascinatingly calibrated her siren signals by relocating her to the U.S. This was a conceit based on truth—around 1955 Magnani went to Florida to shoot the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Dell’Acqua directed his own cast-in-cloth remake with an evident passion for both his muse and the customer he hopes to inspire.