YEAR OF THE DIAMOND: Fendi will kick off its centenary yr with a co-ed trend present throughout Milan Style Week subsequent February, WWD has discovered.
Silvia Venturini Fendi, inventive director of menswear collections and equipment, is main the design effort.
Fendi chief government Pierre-Emmanuel Angeloglou is known to have briefed groups on the large occasion earlier this week.
The runway occasion can even coincide with the reopening of Spazio Fendi on Through Solari in Milan, the Roman model's long-time theater and showroom, which has been present process renovations.
Milan Style Week is scheduled from February 25 to March three.
Fendi has up to now remained silent about its plans for its centenary amid a sequence of adjustments, together with the departures of former Fendi CEO Serge Brunschwig and British designer Kim Jones, who resigned earlier this month after 4 years as inventive director of Fendi high fashion. , ready-to-wear and leather-based collections for girls.
As reported, Jones will proceed in his position as inventive director of Dior's males's collections in Paris.
Fendi and Dior are managed by French luxurious large LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.
Angeloglou succeeded Brunschwig efficient June 1 and experiences to Sidney Toledano, advisor to LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault.
Venturini Fendi is maybe finest often called the girl who designed the enduring Baguette bag in 1997 and as Fendi's menswear designer since 2000.
She is the granddaughter of Adele Fendi, who based the household enterprise with a leather-based items and leather-based items store in Rome in 1925.
Pending Jones' appointment on the finish of 2020, Venturini Fendi remained the principle inventive power and media determine following the loss of life in February 2019 of Karl Lagerfeld, the German designer who had created furs and ladies's clothes for the Roman home since 1965.
He additionally collaborates along with his daughter Delfina Delettrez Fendi, inventive director of bijou on the Roman home, whom Jones thought of a key muse.