FALL 2024 READY-TO-WEAR
Watching Pieter Muliers fall Alaia show made a stupendous emotional and intellectual impact.
You saw a progression of astonishingly innovative techniques, drapes, and silhouettes aligning.
The female body and a sophisticated mentality were being connected in a way that felt like a class apart.
Surrounded by the clamor of congratulations, Mulier explained the thread that united everythingboth technically and conceptually.
Ive been working on it for a year, with only a couple of suppliers.
Its based on circles.
Its simple, he claimed.
Its…how can you say it properly?
Its less sexualized, but still sensual.
He captured that sensibility ingeniously.
Knitted turtleneck tabard sweaters showed slivers of naked torsos in passing.
I love that youre covered, youre covered completelybut then you show something.
That was a hard road to follow.
But with this collection, hes reached the point where he showed he can fly by his own lights.
