Fendi 100: A Century Of Roman Reverie Unveiled On The Runway In Milan
Fendi debuts the Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Women’s and Men’s collection, Fendi 100: Lo Spirito del Tempo, in Milan. The post Fendi 100: A Century Of Roman Reverie Unveiled On The Runway In Milan appeared first on Haute Living.
Silvia Venturini Fendi ushered in the centenary of the House of Fendi with the Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Women’s and Men’s collection, Fendi 100: Lo Spirito del Tempo, staged within the newly minted Spazio Fendi in Milan. This was no mere retrospective but a vibrant oscillation between flashback and fast-forward, a sartorial palimpsest of five generations’ worth of memory—both real and imagined—woven into a celebration of the Roman maison founded by Edoardo Fendi and Adele Casagrande in 1925. “Fendi reminds me of the future,” Venturini Fendi mused, eschewing archival navel-gazing for a personal evocation of Fendi-ness: a lexicon where irony dances with sobriety, and Roman rigor tempers sensuality.
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The runway, framed by wood-paneled doors reminiscent of the Via Borgognona salons where the five Fendi sisters once reigned, conjured a mirage of mid-century glamour. From this portal emerged a collection that reimagined the house’s origins as purveyors of stoles and handbags, now refracted through a century of evolution. Primal textures deceived the eye—shearlings masqueraded as fox, mink, and sable, their intarsia and honeycomb patchworks a nod to noble furs reinterpreted with modern ethos.
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Hourglass silhouettes, symbolizing infinity, flared in satin balza skirts and corolla jackets, while marbled plissé and ribbed knits dissolved into curled lettuce hems. Leatherwork dazzled in eel and lamb patchworks, and raw-cut menswear coats enveloped with operatic gravitas, their martingales a hidden flourish. A Roman dusk palette—laurel green, graphite, petrol blue—ignited into sunset hues of terracotta, scarlet, and dusty rose, painting a chromatic ode to the Eternal City.
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Tailoring reached its zenith in bracelet-sleeve blazers and stovepipe flares, with boiled wool coats deconstructed to reveal satin revers. Trench coats swelled in lambskin, while shearling stoles—layered over jewel-tone cardigans or georgette blouses—evoked both grandeur and ease. The ateliers’ leather mastery shone in reversible Selleria coats and Op-Art intarsias, their geometric plushness a tactile marvel. Eveningwear glittered with matte-shine interplay: quilted satin skirts, Chantilly lace twinsets, and millefoglie ensembles framed by tulle and fingernail sequins, each a testament to Fendi’s opulent lightness.
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Accessories kaleidoscoped through time: the modernist Fendi Giana clicked from clutch to shoulder bag, while the reimagined Spy Bag twisted in sorbet shearlings alongside Peekaboo and Baguette iterations in fluted suede and mirrored embroideries. Delfina Delettrez Fendi’s jewelry shimmered with fur-like textures—snake chains and obelisk pendants—while boots and slippers played trompe l’oeil with slim wedges and hooked heels.
Launched by Venturini Fendi’s seven-year-old grandsons, Dardo and Tazio, in Lagerfeld-era equestrian replicas, the show unfolded to Michel Gaubert’s soundtrack of Italian legends, from Barry White to Mina, echoing a gilded age. Here, Fendi 100 emerged not as a relic but as a living continuum—forever opulent, yet poised for tomorrow.
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