Kim Jones merges celestial and historical together for Fendi Couture SS22.
Kim Jones has had a triumphant year in fashion. As the British designer took over Fendi womenswear, the Italian house also debuted their first dip into couture, all under his artistic direction.
For his third couture collection, Kim Jones brought timelessness into the very core of his work, merging science fiction with Roman history, also drawing parallels with the architecture of his beloved city of Rome. The collection opens with the outlook on the celestial, with sharp, tailored dark silhouettes that shimmer all the way up to the face like an otherworldly goddess. Draping, matched with hand-embroidered tights gives out a sense of second skin to further give the futuristic vision of sci-fi glam. Juxtaposing, Roman statues are printed onto silk duchesse and organza, mirroring the Italian capital. Jones has been deeply inspired by the city this season, because of its layered, timeless quality – modernity and vision meets centuries of history and development.
The armour-like couture collection stands on its own as it solidifies a sense of power that the British designer has for the Fendi woman, and it speaks by honouring the past and looking out into the future, a meticulously detailed and shimmering tribute behind the psychology of civilisation and the human race’s outlook to the unknown.
