Fendi is popping 100, simply because the stigma of carrying actual fur appears to be subsiding.
Charged with creating the autumn 2025 assortment that kicks off the model’s centennial yr, Silvia Venturini Fendi opted to create many coats that resemble fox, mink and sable — all realized with shearling.
The shawls she draped over cardigans, lingerie attire and enterprise fits have been additionally made from shearling — stoles being an integral product, alongside purses, when her grandparents Edoardo Fendi and Adele Casagrande Fendi established the home in Rome.
There have been additionally some zigzag intarsias in mink — a bathrobe type and a blouson — “for the custom,” Venturini Fendi stated, citing a want to “give choices.”
Nonetheless, the designer didn’t stray from opulence, parading what is bound to be one of the vital luxurious runway collections of the Milan season, robust on eel pores and skin and leather-based coats, together with a terrific trench; modern suede shirts; voluptuous and roomy double-face peacoats, and good-looking tweeds and checks dappled with crystal and metallic embroideries.
There have been additionally dazzling op-art coats paying homage to one of the vital acclaimed collections of the late Karl Lagerfeld, who masterminded Fendi’s girls’s and fur collections for greater than 50 years.
Pencil skirts and fit-and-flare silhouettes are trending on runways right here, and Venturini Fendi added godets and ruffled hems to hers. Rounded sculptural sleeves and peplums additional heightened the ladylike femininity of the show.
A number of the males’s appears, which lacked the ladies’s oomph, additionally got here with bits of lace and glowing embroideries. “I just like the delicacy additionally on males, however preserving the construction,” she defined.
Making ready for Wednesday evening’s present, Venturini Fendi bypassed the archives and as a substitute flicked by household images depicting her mom Anna and aunts Paola, Franca, Carla and Alda.
The corporate’s runway theater at its revamped Through Andrea Solari headquarters was reworked to resemble the historic Fendi boutique and salons on Through Borgognona, the place these 5 sisters labored in its huge carpeted, mirrored rooms.
Past these allusions to the previous, Venturini Fendi opted to look forward, and to specific what the press notes dubbed “Fendi-ness, the place irony and humor mingle with sobriety, and sensuality is instilled with a Roman rigor.”
Venturini Fendi’s seven-year-old twin grandsons Dardo and Tazio opened the picket salon doorways on the head of the runway to launch the fashions. The tots have been wearing similar equestrian outfits initially designed within the late ’60s by Lagerfeld.
Backstage, Venturini Fendi associated that the German designer requested her at age 6 to mannequin within the present, which obtained her hooked on the “adrenaline and power that vogue may give.”
“I hope I’ll give the identical power with this assortment and make it very Fendi, quintessentially Fendi, no matter it means,” she stated.
Venturini Fendi, whose title is creative director of equipment and menswear collections, appears to know Fendi-ness by coronary heart.