Venti Cento is the postal code of Milan, a number that covers the whole city without belonging to any single neighbourhood. It felt like the right title for a collection about growing up between two very different versions of the same place. My parents invested in a private school education in the centre of Milan while we lived in the outskirts, and that daily movement between the two exposed me to two completely different kinds of men and two completely different ways of dressing. I was formed by both but didn't fully belong to either. The collection tries to document that experience honestly, not resolve it. The clothes draw from Milanese tailoring and sprezzatura on one side, and the urban sportswear culture of the periphery on the other, and look for a way to hold both at once through pattern cutting, fabric choices and modular construction details. A key part of the design process was developing garments that allow the wearer to physically adjust the fit and silhouette, to shift how they read in a room, without changing clothes. The thinking behind this came partly through encountering the work of Milanese artist Gianni Colombo, whose installations changed based on how the viewer moved through them and made the audience complicit in the work itself. Applied to clothing, that became a question about how much agency a garment can give the person wearing it. The research ran alongside early 2000s Italian films; Io sono l'amore and Fame chimica which captured a version of Milan that felt close to what I was trying to describe: class, identity and belonging playing out in real, unglamorous terms