NO.21
After his business structure crumbled, leaving his name in the hands of others, Alessandro Dell’Acqua was understandably keen to make a clean break with the past. Hence, the new moniker, No. 21 (after the designer’s birth date in December); the new concept (more daywear, more knitwear, «more real, less cocktail,» said Dell’Acqua); and the new shape—boxy and bourgeois, where once his clothes were all about the slinky seductress. But he insisted his lady still has a streak of the perverse, and that was certainly hard to deny when confronted by a big jewel-buttoned twinset in the hottest pink.