SPRING 2022 READY-TO-WEAR | FENDI

Enchanté Fashion Editor: Lupe Baeyens, Images Courtesy of Fendi

The most glorious thing about Fashion Week season? When one city closes, we rush to the next for five more days of fashion extravaganza, and so we find ourselves in a mirrored maze of the 1970s in Milan watching Kim Jones and Silvia Venturini’s Fendi collection. And boy were we in for a disco treat!

It’s important to note that this Fendi show was Kim Jones’s first one in front of a live audience, if that wasn’t reason enough for celebration, he ensured his models dressed the part as inspiration was taken from the effortlessly cool Studio 54. The looks opening the show were influenced by the Puerto Rican illustration Antonio Lopez, as we saw glamorously draped gowns and two-pieces embody a feeling of freedom and effortless elegance and got to admire the simple beauty of a crisp white – gloriously cut – suit.

Following were strapless beckoning gowns, with illustration by the late Lopez emblazoned across, covering themes like fashion, disco, and sex truth be told, is there a decadent better combo? The silk gowns seemed as if they were made from marble and sculpted on the body, showing the highest levels of craftsmanship as is expected from the Italian house. Right when we lost ourselves into the glitz and glamour of the 1970s disco with a geometric fur coat, we were pulled back to the all-present y2k aesthetic. Boxy jackets, the signature logomania gold handbags, as if stolen from the Sex & The City set and the to-die-for furry sandals with almost invisible straps ensured Fendi is not yet done playing around with this noughties-aesthetic, and we’re not complaining. 

Now, where’s the afterparty at?