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In the latest special edition of the BoF Podcast, Fendi Creative Director Silvia Venturini Fendi talks to BoF Editor-at-Large Tim Blanks about everything from the future of smart clothing to the end of the fashion show as we know it.
Karl Lagerfeld invented the playbook for modern luxury that continues to drive results for the brands he led. However, his longtime collaborators, Virginie Viard and Silvia Venturini Fendi, are making some necessary rewrites.
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Karl Lagerfeld's absence clarified exactly what Fendi means now, and probably in the future, with Silvia Venturini Fendi at the helm. She brought a warmth and good humour that made the show.
After the death of Karl Lagerfeld, Silvia Venturini Fendi added the women’s fashion collection that Lagerfeld oversaw for 54 years to her set of design responsibilities at the house that carries her family name. Today, as she prepares to stage her first women’s ready-to-wear show, Mrs Fendi tells Tim Blanks about what she learned from Lagerfeld and the future of the brand.
After the death of Karl Lagerfeld, Silvia Venturini Fendi added the women’s fashion collection that Lagerfeld oversaw for 54 years to her set of design responsibilities at the house that carries her family name. Today, as she prepares to stage her first women’s ready-to-wear show, Mrs Fendi tells Tim Blanks about what she learned from Lagerfeld and the future of the brand.
Silvia Venturini Fendi and director Luca Guadagnino cooked up a delightful surprise together — rooted in basics but unhinged by the delicate ambiguities that have always infused the label.
Silvia Venturini Fendi took inspiration from Karl Lagerfeld's status as a suited icon, reflected in the unusual amount of black, the careful attention to shirt collars and the sportier pieces shot with metallic thread.
Stern and architectural, the collection resolutely shelved the house’s flirtation with eccentric futurism in favour of the stolidly bourgeois.
The private equity fund has entered into a definitive deal with the Percassi family, which will retain a “significant stake” in the business.
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President Biden signed the bill that gives China-based ByteDance 270 days to divest TikTok’s US assets or face a ban.
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