“I was thinking about Karl Lagerfeld’s futurism with FENDI,” says Kim Jones, FENDI Artistic Director of Couture and Womenswear. “In the collection there is a humanism at the heart of this future; there’s the body, the silhouette within the silhouette, the person and the handwork of the couture. The collection is about structure and decoration, where the two become indivisible. I wanted an idea of precision and emotion at once.”
The dialogue between poetry and reality continues in FENDI Couture this season. Eschewing costume and embracing pragmatism, it is an amalgam realised seamlessly by the supreme skills of the craftspeople of the FENDI ateliers: from embroiderers to tailors, pattern cutters to leather workers, dressmakers to furriers. The FENDI approach to the person wearing couture is to reaffirm their humanity; they are always ‘someone’ rather than ‘something.’
From simplicity in geometry to primal pull of croco, a ‘human futurism’ travels through the collection, conflating constants of the past to make the present and the future. Here structure becomes decoration and decoration, structure.
Kim Jones continues his working relationship with the renowned composer Max Richter for the show. Here he echoes Jones’ idea of ‘precision and emotion’ in the score.
