Celebrating 100 years of Fendi history, Silvia Venturini Fendi chose to revisit the “great classics” for the house’s FW 24 menswear collection.
The regal collection took inspiration from British classics for the new season. Particularly, Balmoral and Scotland.
The spirit of the Scottish kilt is imbued across the collection in long pleated shorts worn with leather Wellingtons and hiking socks, flat-front checked skorts or classic trousers tweaked with controlled pleats down each leg.
Generous outerwear shapes with raglan shoulders and flat leather tab buttons are adorned with Selleria leather collars and contrast accents in suede ‘corduroy’, with fisherman’s coats and waterproof wax jackets in FF canvas side-by-side with opulent bombers and peacoat shapes engineered with shaved trompe l’oeil shearling piping and seams.
Colour-blocked knitwear underpins tailoring with playful accents, from the luster of heat-pressed cable knits to ribbed wrap cardigans and triple-layered hems or cuffs on polo sweaters and tanks. Expanding the season’s dense material vocabulary, washed denim and mohair textures are looped, shredded and knit to look like fringed ‘furs’, plissé polished leather is crafted into an exceptional trench coat and bomber jacket, whilst glossy satin and lurex shimmers across evening ensembles caught by flourished crystal FF evening brooches by Artistic Director of Jewellery, Delfina Delettrez Fendi.
Discussing the collection in the notes which accompanied the collection, the house said “the Fendi Men’s Fall/Winter 2024-25 collection muses on the noble pursuits of the great outdoors, streamlined by the swagger of the city. With tradition and technology in constant dialogue, a masculine wardrobe born from necessity is nuanced with Roman decadence: from the Fendi ateliers, to the world.
