For his Fendi Fall/Winter 2022-2023 Ready-to-Wear collection, Kim Jones found inspiration in Delfina Delettrez walking into the Roman headquarters dressed in a printed blouse stolen from her mother’s wardrobe, leading him to dig into the past and give the House’s signatures a new perspective fit for the present. He fell on the Spring-Summer 1986 collection, the one that celebrated Karl Lagerfeld’s love for the artistic movement, reworked its geometric prints and sartorial style and paired them with the lightness of the Fall/Winter 2000 collection, to explore a combination of strength and softness that led powerful women through their march on the runway.
Come next fall, the Fendi woman will be dressed up in delicate slip dresses paired with long cashmere gloves, stock shirts hugging her feminine figure like corsets and cropped jackets carrying masculine touches, all of which defining the new equilibrium that’s at the heart of this collection. Some garments brought together form and function through their transformative nature – think a blazer that morphs into a tailored gilet. And while the charm of illusion so true to Fendi was casted through curled mohair that looks like shearling and shaved shearling appearing like fur, the O’Lock print paved its way from the menswear world to that of womenswear.
Designed by Silvia Venturini Fendi, the accessories celebrated the Baguette’s 25th anniversary through the revival of three of its favorited previous editions – the cashmere, the shearling-lined leather and the intarsia mink. And in jewelry, Delfina Delettrez unlocked this rich archive not only with the blouse she wore on that day, but also with the newly introduced Master Key motif that adorned pendants and earrings.
