The Attico Spring 2027

The Attico’s Spring/Summer 2027 show began with a question: what do we wear when nobody is watching? Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini staged the collection inside a dark tunnel lined with beds, some neatly made and others deliberately undone, offering guests martinis before inviting them to sit — or lie down. Titled “Quando Nessuno Guarda”, or “When No One Looks”, the collection focused on the private and secret selves that exist beyond the version of ourselves presented in public.

The bed became a useful metaphor for a collection built around freedom, sensuality and contradiction. The Attico’s familiar glamour was still present in chandelier dresses, velvet robes and cargo pencil skirts, but these were joined by lingerie, liquid tailoring and utilitarian pieces that shifted between softness and control. Rather than presenting one particular Attico woman, Ambrosio and Tordini offered a cast of personalities: the languid woman, the diva, the provocateur and the woman who is simply dressing for herself.

The most interesting development came through construction. Metal wire was introduced into fabrics, allowing jackets and strapless dresses to be reshaped, twisted and manipulated by the wearer. It extended the designers’ interest in draping, crumpling and deliberately lived-in clothes, while iridescent fabrics and shimmering embellishments added another layer of transformation. Elsewhere, transparencies, cut-outs, trailing hems and zips running provocatively down the backs of leather trousers pushed the collection towards fetishism without losing its sense of glamour.

There is always a risk that The Attico’s unapologetic sensuality can become too familiar, but SS27 found enough newness in its construction to keep the formula moving. The collection was less about creating a single idealised woman than acknowledging that people contain several versions of themselves — public, private and secret. In that sense, the bed was more than a theatrical prop: it was where The Attico could strip away the performance and let its characters dress entirely for themselves.