Alberta Ferretti
Designer: Alberta Ferretti

• “Bewitching sirens shimmered down the runway in ultra-feminine floor-length chiffon and satin dresses and skirts” {AFP}
• “Diaphanous, dainty and above all delicious. The Alberta Ferretti collection for the spring-summer 2013 is sure to be a hit wherever sophisticated maidens gather, from beach clubs to garden parties to summer weddings.” {The Associated Press}
• “Her ethereal, ocean-inspired Spring collection was an amalgamation of what this designer does best–beautiful draping, intricate and inspired beadwork, and a neutral color palette that manages to sing.” {Daily Front Row}
• “The designer reprised the work for which she is best known. And who else can make an angel gown, apparently woven by the most dextrous spider–so fine was that lace–look more divinely pretty?” {ELLEuk.com}
• “It felt like we were witnessing an adult version of The Little Mermaid come to life, and this smattering of dresses, cropped trousers, blazers, and pencil skirts offered up proof of its chic re-imagining.” {FabSugar}
• “Consider Spring 2013 Alberta Ferretti’s mermaid moment. In everything from her color palette to her embellishments to the staging of her show in Milan Wednesday afternoon, Ferretti brought beauty from the ocean onto the catwalk.” {fashionologie}
• “Alberta Ferretti had one word on her mind: liquidity. No, it was not an allusion to the debt-ridden state of the Italian economy but rather the flowing weightlessness, or, as the designer said, the ‘absence of gravity’ of her dresses.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “She layered organza over fringed, beaded dresses in shades of seafoam and eau de nil, trapping the shimmer and movement so gorgeously as to suggest something viewed through sunlit sea.” {Style.com}
• “This was as good a meditation on the idea of soft, romantic evening dressing that we’ve seen so far. In fact, correction: It’s the only rendering that we’ve had the pleasure of watching.” {Vogue.com}
• “It was pretty and beautiful in the truest sense–because when you visualise those two adjectives, delicate textiles, beads, embroidery and a soft femininity all spring to mind–and that latter attribute is something that Ferretti is very good at doing.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “That the buzzwords bandied about backstage before Alberta Ferretti’s show included ‘sensual,’ ‘feminine’ and ‘luminous’ was not a news flash. Throw in ‘ethereal’ and ‘goddess’ and you’ve got Ferretti’s aesthetic vocabulary virtually covered.” {WWD}