The Birth of Alënka and the Infanta Collection – Italian Polewear & Dancewear
Alënka is not born from a business plan
nor from a predefined strategy.
It is born from an impulse.
From something that takes shape before words.
Before names.
Before decisions.
Before forms.
There was a sensation.
The desire to express oneself through the body.
Through gesture, rhythm, tension, and pause.
In that subtle space between strength and vulnerability, between uncertainty and freedom,
the brand’s first collection began to take shape.
Infanta was its beginning.
Alënka is an Italian polewear and dancewear brand creating garments designed for the movement of the body.
Each collection grows out of lived experience with dance and pole dance, combining essential aesthetics with technical functionality.
The first collection, Infanta, is made with premium sports fabrics, four-way stretch, and carefully considered details designed to support the body through training, dance, and moments of active life.
Movement as Language
We believe in the impulse that comes before words.
In the body that feels before the mind.
For Alënka, pole dance is neither a theme nor a style.
It is a language. A way of inhabiting movement.
The body does not pose: it lives, chooses, falls, and rises again.
It is never static. It stretches, contracts, opens, resists.
It is precisely this continuous tension, this unstable fluidity, that gave rise to the collection.
Movement is not decoration: it is structure.
Movement dictates the cut.
Gesture Becoming Line
Lines are born from the body.
Not as ornament, but as a natural extension of gesture.
Each mark follows a real direction:
a push, a twist, a temporary balance.
The line does not represent the body — it accompanies it, recording its passage.
Form is never rigid.
It remains open, ready to transform.
Sketches: A State, Not a Shape
Work on Infanta began with pencil and paper.
Not to design individual garments, but to capture states.
Fragments of movement.
Combinations.
Provisional balances.
In the sketches, tops and shorts coexist, intertwine, complete one another.
There is no final form — only breath.
The way the body supports itself and finds stability within change.
We do not impose forms.
We do not offer predefined roles.
Form remains open — a space where the body can be delicate or fierce, silent or bold, imperfect and alive.
The Infanta Collection
Infanta is Alënka’s first collection.
“Infant” in the most authentic sense of the word:
open, sensitive, still becoming —
yet already aware of its presence.
Like a young princess.
Not fully grown, yet already sovereign.
Within the name coexist sweetness and strength, fragility and dignity.
Infanta marks the beginning of a journey.
Technical Fabrics for the Dancing Body
Once the direction became clear, fabric revealed itself as central.
For the Infanta collection, we selected premium technical sports fabrics, designed to follow the body in every context and never resist movement.
Fabric features:
◊ suitable for training, sea, and pool
◊ quick-drying
◊ extremely lightweight and wrinkle-resistant
◊ four-way stretch
These fabrics follow movement, support it, amplify it.
Designed for the body that dances —
and for the body that lives.
Details You Can Feel
Infanta is a collection where attention to detail is pushed to its essential maximum.
Not to complicate, but to liberate.
Every element is designed to accompany real bodily movement:
◊ mesh lining for comfort and breathability
◊ draping along the back seam, extending the body’s natural line
◊ silicone edging on tops for improved grip
◊ double fabric layers where extra support is needed
◊ adjustable straps
◊ fine ties, precisely stitched
These are details that do not seek attention.
They reveal themselves only when the body moves.
A Space Without Instructions
With Infanta, one thing became clear: Alënka is not just clothing.
It is a space.
Without instructions.
Without expectations.
Without a single correct image.
Female identity is not a formula
nor an ideal to be achieved.
It is an open field of possibility, imagination, and movement.
Every image is valuable because it is born from the person who wears it.
Not from the brand.
Not from trends.
Not from expectation.
Dance with your Nature ~
Infanta is the first page of Alënka.
A story of movement, listening to the body, and honesty in process.
Of how an impulse becomes a line.
A line becomes a form.
And a form becomes lived experience.
We create for the body that dances
and for the body that lives.
Because dance never ends —
it is the very form of life.
