Milan Fashion Week: Versace and Fendi’s joint show had an unexpected twist – and critics went crazy for the luxury brands’ ‘power of collaboration’
- Pop star Dua Lipa, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and her daughter, Lila Grace Moss-Hack, flaunted Donatella Versace and Kim Jones’ new party-starting creations
- While the runway show featured models of different ages and sizes, critics bemoaned other fashion houses’ reverting to ‘super-young’, ‘ultra-slim’ girls
Milan Fashion Week drew to a close on Monday, September 27, a day after Versace and Fendi shared the catwalk in a collaboration that saw each artistic director playing with the codes of the other house.
But some critics regretted a return at the week’s events to the old norms of ultra-slim, very young models compared to the more recent use of more mature models of varied sizes.
The fashion world knew that Fendi and Versace would be putting on a joint show. What they did not know was that the two creative directors, Donatella Versace and Kim Jones, would switch roles – Versace creating a Fendi collection and Jones one for Versace.
The resulting “Fendace” show creations will be in the shops by spring of 2022.
But some commentators expressed unease at a return to super-young, disturbingly thin models at other shows.