This presentation explores the creative process of the fashion designer Alberta Ferretti as a sort of communion with Nature.

1. Wind from the Sea
The Designs of Alberta Ferretti
by
Vietanh Nguyen

2. Conclusion
The Clothes
Romanticism
The Tao of Alberta Ferretti
Introduction
Contents

3. “Alberta Ferretti has become synonymous with an inimitably airy,
soft femininity inured to the trends.”
-- Vogue
Introduction

4. “Light and graceful, evanescent and
volatile as if feminine sensuality
were weightless, and living in
delicate silence, Alberta Ferretti’s
fashion resembles her.”
-- Natalia Aspesi

5. “An approach to life, a canon of taste, a necessity. Lightness is at once
the dream and the reality of Alberta Ferretti, to whom we can apply the
description that Italo Calvino made of his own work:
‘What I have been doing most of the time is to remove weight.’ ”
-- Samuele Mazza
The Tao of Alberta Ferretti

7. “Alberta Ferretti is fashion’s great romantic.”
-- Hamish Bowles
Romanticism

8. “Instead of searching for rules
governing nature and human
beings, the romantics searched
for a direct communication with
nature and treated humans as
unique individuals not subject to
scientific rules.”
Romanticism

9. “…sentire
noi pur domani tra I profumi e i venti
un riaffluir di sogni, un urger folle
di voci verso un esito; e nel sole
che v’investe, riviere,
rifiorire!”
-- Eugenio Montale
The Sea as a Dionysian Force
“I could feel –
even I, tomorrow, among fragrances and winds –
fresh-running dreams, a wild rush of voices
surging toward an outlet; and in the sunlight
that swathes you, seacoasts,
flower anew!”

10. Listening to the Rhythm of the Universe
“When your mind grows quiet, your heart begins to hear.”

11. “Romanticism is a great strength because it shows you’re able to
declare your sentiments and emotions. I’m very proud when people
tell me I’m romantic.”
-- Alberta Ferretti

12. The Clothes

13. “Her name on the label is synonymous with lightness—mousseline,
her fetish material, she has reinvented and modernized with pleats,
shreds, ravels, and plays on transparencies. She has made the
prettiest fairy dresses that have ever been seen on the red carpet.”
-- Le Temps

14. “Perhaps for its forms, perhaps
because it alludes to the secrets
of intimacy. I consider it the most
feminine garment there is. The
one that I never tire of designing
because it lends itself to infinite
variations.”
Slip

15. Tank top with lace insets and eyelet pants

16. Pencil skirt with flared bottom

17. “The [Pure Threads] collection is
completely organic, from the
picking and spinning of our
cottons to the washing, weaving,
and dyeing of our textiles.”
Organic Cotton Blouse

18. Layered dress

19. Satin-velvet dress

20. “And what is it, the heart?
It is the sound of the pine breeze in the ink painting.”
-- Ikkyu Zenji
Conclusion

21.  Samuele Mazza and Giusi Ferre, Alberta Ferretti
 Eugenio Montale, Seacoasts (Cuttlefish Bones Poem Collection
translated from the Italian by William Arrowsmith)
“…the sea is hailed as a Dionysian force bearing the individual beyond
himself into some renovative communion with all Nature.”
 Dainin Katagiri, Breeze in the Sumi Painting (in Returning to
Silence)
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