Flirting with mercurial moods is a favorite activity of The Attico’s Giorgia Tordini and Gilda Ambrosio. “We’re multifaceted, and we love to embrace contradictions,” they said matter-of-factly at a studio appointment. Proof of the statement is that after a pre-fall collection curbed towards the pragmatic, for winter they brought their girls back to where they started: the glitzy, ritzy party circuit, of which they’re the undisputed queens.
From a high-style penthouse to a gritty garage club, any stage can do for the after-dark escapades the Attico’s nocturnal creatures go for. To further highlight their not-so-bourgeois penchant, the backdrop to the lookbook’s images was a rough, nondescript place, roamed by cool bombshells clad in skimpy, liquid asymmetrical dresses dripping with hand-cut sequins and boasting eye-catching cut-outs revealing ample expanses of bare skin.
Ambrosio and Tordini are honing the body-conscious silhouettes they favor, while maintaining a certain high-style cool. Cases in point were a series of attractive numbers that riffed on vintage references, a sort of sexy version of what they called “destroyed roaring twenties flapper” dresses that came provided with a hip-hugging slouchy silhouette and were worn with sporty swimsuit bras or see-through net bodysuits. Rendered in day-glo shades of pink or acid yellow and carpeted in dangling rectangular acetate sequins, they made for quite bold head turners. There would be no way of passing unnoticed through even the most crowded of parties in one of those slinky goddess dresses, or, for that matter, in a pair of bell bottoms drenched in purple feathers and worn with a knotted midriff-baring pink top, slashed at the front.
On the covered-up side, Ambrosio and Tordini leaned on their tomboyish sides, updating and oversizing their successful cargo pants (which are apparently coveted by their male fan base ). They also offered an aside of imaginative takes on masculine tailored pieces. A lapel-less acid-green jacket was hourglass-fitted with extra-long bell sleeves; it could replace a coat or be worn to a party paired with a breathtakingly short sequined miniskirt. Elsewhere, a classic tux with a strong-shouldered jacket and a curvaceous fit looked bold in a saturated shade of electric blue. Riffing on the conspicuously eye-catching, emphatic knitted capes and XXL cardis with a multicolor fringed texture that replicated feathers were layered over sequined tunics, utilitarian oversized jeans, and sporty brassières. “We want to convey an unconventional, instinctual feel,” they said. “But keeping it cool,” they said. They certainly know how to do that.
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