Ferretti: Undeniably Chic - but Unforgiving
By Godfrey Deeny
Photos by Gruber-FWD
MILAN, Oct 3, 2002/ FWD/ --- Alberta Ferretti is one of the most inventive designers
showing in Milan, and also one of the most demanding.
There was much to admire in the cut, construction, silhouette and inventiveness of the
spring/summer 2003 collection Ferretti showed here Tuesday, even if one couldn't help
thinking that in order to look really good in a lot of it a woman needed one hell of a
good body.
Even allowing for the excesses of the runway, the shortness of the hemlines and transparency
of many looks made this a tricky, albeit very pretty, collection.
Alberta packed her opening with her signature style, swirling chiffon dresses that swirled,
curled and ruffled around the body artistically.
She varied the mood with some excellent knits, sewn like clumpy seaweed or crocheted
intricately.
Halfway through the show, Ferretti took a turn through India, embroidering and decorating
tops and skirts with Jaipuresque silver patterns.
The models did look prettily unique, though it was hard to imagine hoards of women wearing
open shouldered mini dresses that stopped 15 inches about their knees.
A score of these beautifully cut though skimpy mini dresses finished the show before
Alberta took her bow.
Now few things are of less interest than readers hearing about shows running late, as this
one did, starting 45 minutes past its scheduled time. But blocking scores of people leaving
the show, as security guards did after this collection, should be of some concern.
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