Kate. Christy. Amber. Paulina. And Mariacarla! Trust Kim Jones to bring out the big guns at Fendi for a perfect megawatt ending to Paris Couture Week
Mood: We are silent spectators on an astral sartorial sojourn. Fade in: An empty colosseum comes into light before fading to black. Where are we? Where have we seen this place before? A burst from a company of contrabassoons then jolt us, as the haunting yet familiar catlike peepers of fashion’s most famous waif comes into soft focus, before fading out. And it is in this exact fashion that we are introduced to Fendi Couture’s Fall/Winter 2021 collection.
Directed by the critically acclaimed and award-winning filmmaker Luca Guadagnino—of Call Me By Your Name fame and a personal friend of the couture house’s artistic director Kim Jones—the entire Paris Couture Week has culminated in this exquisite fashion flick. Coincidentally, it was also filmed at the famous Cinecittà Studios—just a stone’s throw from where the English designer has built his own Roman empire at the Fendi headquarters. And in our time of austerity, his—might we also add, incredibly cinematic—second couture collection for the Italian house is the only respite we need.
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