Nº21
About Nº21
Nº21 is the Italian fashion brand created and directed by designer Alessandro Dell'Acqua. It debuted with the presentation of the Fall/Winter 2010/2011 collection during Milan Fashion Week.
It offers a modern and feminine wardrobe with tricks and details brought from the male wardrobe. The mix of feminine and masculine shapes and fabrics soon became one of the stylistic codes of the brand.
SPRING / SUMMER 2024 WOMEN'S COLLECTION
"Veiled Contrasts" SPRING / SUMMER 2024 WOMEN'S LOOKBOOK
The dual soul of Naples, a non linear city with a rich multiplicity where the aristocracy leads and directs what makes for popular nature and the people tell personal stories with sincere eroticism. Stratified culture and carnality. All in a one and only image that lives on contrasts, albeit free of contradictions. The No. 21 Spring-Summer 2024 collection talks about life episodes that overlap, experiences that complete one another; and joins couture fabrics and embossed chiffons, references to wedding dresses and severity of the widow uniform.
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SPRING / SUMMER 2024 MEN'S COLLECTION
"TROMPE L’OEIL EFFECT" SPRING / SUMMER 2024 MEN'S LOOKBOOK
Deceiving the eye, with fine delicacy and keen awareness, yet presenting no unthinkable traps or impossible guessing games: the N21 Spring Summer 2024 Men’s Collection enfolds a voluntary fusion of references; meanwhile work processes return tailoring to its proper place, freeing it of whatever cultural overlay may have come from recent business(wear) propaganda.
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RESORT 2024 WOMEN'S COLLECTION
"AN AIRY FLAIR FOR HYBRID FASHION" RESORT 2024 WOMEN'S LOOKBOOK
A thrilling feeling of lightness to give women’s fashion classics a smart hybrid slant: (making the most of) creative strategies where various references meet a sense of femininity that underlines details so as to tell a unique personal story in a way as free, open, real and with-it as possible; all during an era requiring a particularly courageous spirit of experimentation. The N21 2024 Resort collection comes from an uncommon urge for a form of innovation that rests firmly upon the infallible rule of savoir faire.
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RESORT 2023 COLLECTION
"The Complexity of Eros" RESORT 23 MEN'S & WOMEN'S COLLECTION
Exploring contrasting situations. Imagining an eroticism free of inexorable nods to voyeurism. Erasing gender stereotypes to better orient the shift toward a surprising aesthetic that melds with daily life as set in a bare, unadorned quasi-brutalist architecture standing out from amidst decoration all around.
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FALL-WINTER 2022 COLLECTION
"A SPONTANEOUS UPDATE" FW 2022 WOMEN’S & MEN’S COLLECTION
References coming from various worlds, shifting into place in ways that are never didactic, gaining effective support from a desire to readjust style codes so that they recapture the authentic meaning of a type of fashion which conveys shared values. The No. 21 collection for fall-winter 2022-23 that creative director Alessandro Dell’Acqua sends down the runway with a co-ed women’s and men’s show updates the historicized fashion narrative, its expressions and its construction techniques, with a language that is totally today. It’s a rewrite that abolishes the patina of stereotypes from codes which seem to have been around forever.
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FALL-WINTER 2022 CAMPAIGN
Alessandro Dell'Acqua In Conversation with Alfredo Cortese
Moderated by Mimma Viglezio, N21's Alessandro Dell'Acqua and A.C.9's Alfredo Cortese join to discuss their working relationship in this interview. With the aid of Viglezio, the two designers talk about Dell'Aqua's mentorship scheme, their working collaboration, and the ever-changing role of designers and buyers at Milan Fashion Week.