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Alberta Ferretti

Spring/Summer 2012

By Emma Sells

The trend for barely-there dresses, spotted in New York at Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, looks set to continue in Milan if Alberta Ferretti is anything to go by.

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The simplest of sheer slip dresses were panelled with geometric shapes of tropically coloured satin, offering up brief glimpses of just-covered skin. And lightweight, crochet knits shifts offered little to the imagination either.

For those of a less daring persuasion there was plenty to choose from; wrapped and twisted silk dresses in block colours and a rainforest-inspired leaf print, a crocheted pencil skirt and khaki safari shirt and a clutch of rainbow coloured knitted vests and dresses with pinafore backs. But aside from one pair of flowing palazzo pants and a white, loose fitting jumpsuit fretworked with sequins, trousers were as barely there as the dresses - the Ferretti girl is going to be baring her legs in typically feminine style next summer.