Milan Fashion Week: Alberta Ferretti

By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at Milan Fashion Week . Published: 2:19PM GMT twenty-six February 2010

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Albertas beautiful, dressing-up-box of a show was a story of "day for night". No functional, sports-inspired or workaday ideas here; the Ferretti lady lives for beauty, voiced in exquisite, hand-pleated badge appliqus, a molding of crystals tremor on her shoulders, and her feet encased in delicate, corded fine cloth booties.

Dresses, as soft as a whisper, appeared in palest, smoke-grey or boudoir-pink, minute with perplexing ribbon-embroideries, worked in geometric and floral curliques.

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Little coats shivered in a stew of cut chiffon. Grey silk twinsets were ragged with A-line, thickk thickk cream fine cloth skirts, detailed with a starburst of diamante. Little bubbly beverage slips, were slipped over stretch-chiffon or tulle bodies, sprinkled with a necklace of crystals that traced the bend of the shoulders.

When it came to tailoring, Ferretti took a sharper, but no less ethereal line, display wasp-waisted, chevron-seamed jackets, embellished with black fox, and mostly with a peplum, associated to slim skirts, with behind interest, in the form of a mist of pleating.

Coats, in army cashmere, were embellished with fox, or featured a black, lacquer-like cloaking on shoulders or hem. A dark virtuoso cloak was embellished with mink and featured bands of mink at the hem.

Long gowns followed the "Harlow line", in black, thickk thickk cream and flesh-tone satin, or black silk-chiffon, over flesh. Tiers of finger-tip pleats were held with ribbons; ethereal appliqus wove sinuously around the body; and a delicate colour robe featured a pour out of crystals from the left shoulder to the hem.