“I was thinking about Karl Lagerfeld’s futurism with Fendi,” said Kim Jones of his SS24 Fendi couture collection. He went on to explain the humanism that he imagined at the heart of that future – the body, the handwork, the “silhouette within the silhouette”. It was a collection about structure and decoration, where in tandem, these became indivisible.
I think being a part of a fashion house means we have a different point of view from the start,” says Delfina Delettrez Fendi, 36, musing on the Roman house’s first escapade into a complete high jewellery collection, Fendi Triptych, unveiled at the Fendi Couture AW23 runway show.