Fendi draws inspiration from the Karl Lagerfeld archive for AW22.
This season, Kim Jones dives deep into the Fendi archives. Showing at the Fendi Milan HQ on Thursday, the designer brought out his curiosity towards the house’s past, and how fashion cross-pollinates amongst different decades. Starting his inspiration journey from Karl Lagerfeld’s SS86 collection, Jones noticed a specific printed blouse on Delfina Delettrez Fendi, which brought even more curiosity about understanding the current relationship between trend, timelessness and timing.
The collection brings out a contradiction of feeling – powerful, grey, sharp-shoulder blazers matched with the most delicate chiffon, bringing out an array of gentle complexity, almost mirror-like to our lives. As he went along, Kim Jones brought out more of the juxtaposition by fulfilling inspiration from AW00, and the lightness behind each look. “It’s a wardrobe designed for every aspect of a woman’s life, for every generation,” Jones says. “And it all started with Delfina.”
In classic Fendi fashion, there is also a hint of utilitarianism and multi-dimension to the looks with pocketed belts that cinch the waist, while holding your phone, detachable blazers turning into gilets, and borrowed O’Lock motives from menswear, all giving a sense of fluidity across Silvia Venturini Fendi and Kim Jones’ vision into the Fendi DNA.
The feeling of the mixture of darkness and lightness, softness and power projects onto who the Fendi woman is, and that is someone who has studied and opened herself onto the multidimensional beauty of life, ready to fully embrace every part of herself – anytime, anywhere.
