Alessandro Dell’Acqua ‘detaches’ himself from collections

A very disappointing fact to tell you but Alessandro Dell’Acqua says he doesn’t want Alessandro Dell’Acqua Men’s Spring/Summer 2010 and Women’s Pre-Spring 2010 collections to bear his name.

The problem is that the designer has been hardly involved in creating them as he claims. So, what has really happened? No one knows exactly.

The designer has written an open letter telling that his distributor and producer Cherry Grove have created upcoming lines without his approval or consent. The letter was published on fashionweekdaily.com.

Alessandro wrote:

I would like to inform you that the Alessandro Dell’Acqua Men’s Spring-Summer 2010 and Women’s Pre-spring 2010 collections will be produced without my approval, as I haven’t had the possibility to verify the conformity of the final product to the sketches I submitted to the company.

The brand which carries my name has always been consistent with my style but in this case, despite of their formal assurance, Cherry Grove, the company who produces and distributes the Alessandro Dell’Acqua women’s and men’s collections, decided to move forward without having me, the designer, check on the quality of the product.”

The designer is apparently furious with the Cherry Grove’s attitude and insists he has “detached” himself from the collections as he doesn’t feel they meet the ideas he originally had.

He added:

Because of this imposed inability to guarantee the quality of the final product and in order to protect the other licensees of the brand, I have to detach myself from these two collections that have not been approved by me and that I don’t acknowledge as realization of my creations.”

Cherry Grove have not commented on his statement yet. I wonder how long this tense relationship can last…

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