Karl Lagerfeld’s ‘functional’ Fendi creations honour stylish ‘metropolitan jungle’ women at Milan Fashion Week
The German and his co-designer Silvia Venturini Fendi put the focus on pockets and tool belts with a collection of clothes for all occasions at Milan Fashion Week
Italian luxury fashion house Fendi made pockets and practical belts the centrepiece of its functional and elegant designs at Milan Fashion Week – dedicating the collection to women who must traverse metropolitan jungles every day, yet wish to stay stylish.
“Functionality is the word [to describe the new collection],” said Silvia Venturini Fendi, the founding family’s scion who forms a creative duo at the maison with German designer Karl Lagerfeld, after Thursday’s show.
The Rome-based fashion house, which was founded in 1925, is now part of France’s luxury conglomerate LVMH, along with Christian Dior and Givenchy.
“I thought of a woman who lives an intense urban life, who wakes up early, brings her children to school, works, goes to the gym, likes to go out, but might not manage to go back home to change,” Fendi said.
[For the collection] I thought of a woman who lives an intense urban life, wakes up early, brings her children to school, works, goes to the gym, likes to go out, but might not manage to go back home to change
Her own life and needs had inspired the collection, which was created in comfortable yet luxurious fabrics with layered looks, and where clothes – full of pockets – almost resembled accessories.