Silvia Venturini Fendi to develop into ‘honorary president’ of Fendi

A 3rd-generation member of the Fendi dynasty, Silvia Venturini Fendi first visited the Roman trend home’s atelier on Rome’s Through Borgognona aged one. At the moment, it was run by her mom Anna and her 4 sisters, Paola, Franca, Carla and Alda; later, she would develop up there round Karl Lagerfeld, who would develop into inventive director in 1965, the start of a 54-year tenure which ended along with his demise in 2019. In 1992, she would start working alongside him, later turning into creative director of equipment and menswear.

‘He was at all times within the second. The previous was the previous, and the long run we don’t know. So let’s dwell within the second. It has formed my view,’ she informed Wallpaper* in a latest interview, discussing Fendi’s one centesimal anniversary present, which befell in February. After the departure of Kim Jones the December earlier than, she took on duty for the home’s males’s and womenswear traces – the second time she had been sole inventive director of the model (for a quick interval in 2019, after Lagerfeld’s demise, she designed each the lads’s and ladies’s collections).

Silvia Venturini Fendi to develop into ‘honorary president’ of Fendi

Just some days after presenting a vibrant males’s and womenswear assortment in Milan final week, it has been introduced that Venturini Fendi is to step away from her inventive obligations and develop into the ‘honorary president’ of the home (Fendi was acquired by LVMH in 2000, taking away household management). ‘In her new capability, she is going to give attention to supporting Fendi’s heritage, whereas persevering with to champion the model worldwide and selling the Maison’s wealthy historical past, distinctive craftsmanship, and the world of Fendi Casa,’ learn a press release from the home. A brand new ‘inventive organisation’ will likely be revealed in the end.

‘These have been actually thrilling years, a journey I’ve walked additionally within the identify of my grandmother Adele, my mom Anna, and her sisters,’ says Venturini Fendi. ‘My coronary heart turns to Karl, a rare grasp who granted me the honour of working by his aspect, educating me the artwork of sharing, a defining high quality in my household’s historical past of girls, whereas guiding me to nurture and defend my very own inventive imaginative and prescient in order that I may then fly alone.

‘What a beautiful journey it has been, not solely creatively but in addition from a human perspective: first by my bond with Karl Lagerfeld, then with Kim Jones and final however not least with my improbable workforce, which through the years has develop into a part of my household,’ she continues.