Niccolo Pasqualetti SS24

The theme of the sea see seems to be a mainstay in Niccolo Pasqualetti's collections. This season, there is an even dreamier interpretation of how the sea interacts with a body. Let me explain...

By the time I showed up to this presentation I realized I had not eaten that morning and it was already well into lunchtime. I was waiting in line, chomping on the box of Tic Tacs I had in my bag while 3 influencers behind me chatted away about this collection. Two of them had actually just come out of a previous presentation and was telling the person behind me what to expect. What they said did not do it justice at all.

When we finally filed in there was a completely white space with white cubes that you can sit on. It was an intimate space yet there was plenty of room for everybody to file in. When the show started it felt like the first model floated in. The details of this collection were so unusual to me because they were oversized but didn't feel ostentatious. The way the waves were depicted on the body really free flowed from the waist to the hip and into the back, like if a wave had hugged you. The accessories were large and angular, anchoring the softer edges of the clothing. For example large rectangular glasses with hanging rectangular pendants were paired with a very large and airy free-flowing silhouette.

In this space, things float easily into one another. As if it's in a fog. There is no night and day, formal or informal, everything is interchangeable. Attention is brought to the barrier between the natural and synthetic breaking down and it is depicted beautifully through the mix of textures that are found within the collection. I left this presentation thinking that felt like a lucid dream. Halfway between reality and truth and fantasy and myths.