Silvia Venturini Fendi is in charge at Fendi now, and tonight she put inclusivity front and center on the runway with more sizes and ages, marking a new era.
Extreme dieter Karl Lagerfeld didn’t hold back when it came to his disdain for larger sizes, once telling an interviewer “nobody wants to see curvy women.” But Silvia Venturini Fendi is in charge now, and on Thursday night she put inclusivity front and center on the Fendi runway with more sizes and ages , marking a new era for the house.
”It was a movie that made a big scandal at that time because it’s the story of a woman who lives in Paris in a two-floor flat and on one level, she has a very bourgeois and normal life, and in the basement she is a dominatrix,” Venturini Fendi said.
Some of the shapes were a bit too voluptuous , and others a bit busy . But Venturini Fendi made up for it with several lovely, pared-down, body-conscious, Forties-esque draped shoulder day dresses, the best in a shirting stripe trimmed in black lace. Aware she was playing with some pre-#MeToo cliches of femininity, the designer said in her defense, “To be dressed in pink [doesn’t mean] that you are stupid.”
And in addition to the inclusive casting, there was at least one other nod to the femme future. A cool tech collaboration with London-based accessories brand Chaos featured delicate Fendi-branded gold mesh phone pouches and perforated “FF” minaudière storage devices resembling vintage cigarette lighters. Just the thing for today’s gadget addicts.
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