Fendi held its fabulous Women’s Spring Summer 2024 Couture show this afternoon in Paris.
The FROW included multi-award-winning actresses and Reese Witherspoon, along with Reese’s daughter, Ava Phillippe.
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Ava Philippe and Reese Witherspoon
Discussing the house’s latest collection, Fendi’s artistic director of womenswear and couture, Kim Jones, said: “I was thinking about Karl Lagerfeld’s futurism with Fendi… In the collection, there is a humanism at the heart of this future; there’s the body, the silhouette within the silhouette, the person and the handwork of the couture. The collection is about structure and decoration, where the two become indivisible. I wanted an idea of precision and emotion at once.”
Throughout the collection, there is a dialogue between what the house describes as the dualism of “poetry and reality.”
“From simplicity in geometry to the primal pull of croco, a ‘human futurism’ travels through the collection, conflating constants of the past to make the present and the future. Here structure becomes decoration and decoration, structure,” the notes which accompanied the collection said.
The collection began with a new, ‘Scatola’ silhouette (meaning ‘box’) and ended on the same, precision geometric pattern cutting.
Meanwhile, rich materials were used throughout the collection, from the finest cashmere and vicuna yarns to elevated rib knit dresses elegantly swaddle with knotted ‘Shibari’ harnesses integral to the silhouette.
