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Kim Jones debuts first Fendi womenswear collection inspired by the Fendi sisters Chloe Street
“Fun isn’t always just about bright colours,” said Kim Jones, Fendi’s newly appointed creative director, in the notes that accompanied his audience-free autumn/ winter 2021 runway show.
And certainly today’s offering, which kicked off the Milan Fashion Week schedule, was not lacking in joy, despite swerving any retina-burning brights in favour of a restrained colour palette of taupe, camel, off-white and chocolate brown.
Jones looked to the wardrobes of the five Fendi sisters when designing the collection, the overall vibe of which was minimal and sophisticated, with butter-soft knee high boots, tailored wool skirts that gently contoured and silky shirts attesting to the laid-back elegance of one of Italy’s premier fashion clans.
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The catwalks have long served as excellent dressing inspiration for the season ahead, and while the haute couture collections tend to be a little too glamorous for everyday, they provide us with dreamy fashion escapism - which we need now more than ever.
In a surprising turn of events, however, the spring/summer 2021 couture shows (which were filmed and aired online and via social media) weren t just full of dressing ideas for right now, but they featured myriad pieces that we ve been sporting all lockdown long.
Fendi haute couture show was a debut, in many senses. It was his first collection for the Roman house, of course; it was also his first ever womenswear collection, and Fendi’s debut spring haute couture show (they normally show a single couture collection each July). And it was Jones’ bold foray into haute couture, the custom-made, coveted creative zenith of fashion, where money is no object and the extraordinary becomes not an exception, but a casual demand. Drape a satin dress by hand – moulage, couture calls that – and encrust it with minute springtime flowers? Sure. Stud a cape and gossamer-fine dress with millions of pearls? No problem. Recreate swirling patterns of marble in intricate hand-beadwork? Want matching boots? Nothing is impossible.