British designer Kim Jones is to exit his position as creative director of womenswear and couture at Italian home Fendi, it has been introduced this afternoon (11 October 2024). He’s set to proceed as creative director of Dior Males, one other home within the LVMH secure, the assertion confirmed.
Jones started his tenure at Fendi in 2020, filling the position which had been vacant after the demise of Karl Lagerfeld in February 2019. His collections for Fendi reimagined the home’s Roman roots within the designer’s glossy, modern type, whereas references to his personal fixations – amongst them the work of the Bloomsbury group – had been woven all through. Within the assertion, Fendi says he was ‘guided by ardour and creativity… always renewing the home’s codes’.
‘Kim Jones is a extremely proficient designer who has introduced his distinctive and multicultural imaginative and prescient to Fendi over the previous 4 years,’ says Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of LVMH. ‘I want to thank him for his contribution and stay up for persevering with to witness his creativity for Dior Males.’
Kim Jones is leaving Fendi
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His ultimate present for the home happened this previous September (2024), with Jones presenting a group that seemed again to the Twenties, the last decade during which Fendi was based (2025 will mark the home’s centenary 12 months). ‘The foundations of how girls costume immediately and, in some ways, how we expect are within the Twenties. It’s about modernity in type and angle,’ he mentioned.
‘There [was a] modernism in costume, design, ornament and thought. We approached the gathering with this stuff in thoughts, as an amalgam of epochs, moods and strategies – then and now,’ he continued. As a ultimate flourish, an unlimited white field opened within the centre of the runway on the finish of the present, revealing a tableau of fashions inside. Now, it seems like a becoming finale.
As but, there isn’t a announcement about Jones’ successor, although it provides to a rising variety of vacancies at trend’s main homes – amongst them Chanel and Dries Van Noten. Fendi says that ‘a brand new artistic organisation for Fendi shall be introduced in due time’.
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