FENDI, a luxury brand representing Rome, Italy, unveiled the FENDI Fall/Winter 2023 Couture Collection by Artistic Director Kim Jones and Jewelry Artistic Director Delfina Delettrez Fendi on July 6, 2023 at 2:30 pm (local time in France).
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Courtesy of FENDI
"This season we wanted to focus on the fluidity, flow and form of couture techniques and marry these elements with a modern attitude," says Kim Jones, Artistic Director of Couture and Womenswear. "We worked from a template based on Delfina high jewellery. Even in looks that don't feature jewellery, the clothes themselves evoke the idea of jewellery through the collection's colour palette and embellishments. We play with the colours of precious stones – black diamonds, rubies and sapphires – as well as body colours, creating a play between soft and hard, body and jewellery."
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Courtesy of FENDI
"The jewellery in this collection has an emotional relationship that I have and that I hope the women who will one day wear it have too," says Delfina Delettrez Fendi, Artistic Director of Fendi Jewelry. "It takes an obsessive passion to create these pieces of jewelry, tiny pieces of such intensity, meaning and individuality, and ultimately, such a direct and intimate connection to the body. They become a profoundly personal extension of the woman herself."
Courtesy of FENDI
Courtesy of FENDI
Once again, Kim Jones and the artisans of the Fendi atelier humanize the traditions of couture, making them accessible, voluminous yet light, fluid and gracefully draped. Eschewing "costume" and embracing a softer, more relaxed sense of female agency within the garments, suppleness is explored, expressed both in the flexibility of how the garments are worn, as seen particularly in the corset motifs on the exterior, and in how they actually feel when worn.
Courtesy of FENDI
Courtesy of FENDI
The collection plays with the idea of simplicity hiding complexity. Volume, drape and sculptural forms are achieved through intricate and precise pattern cutting; garments are often made with just a single seam. Second-skin silks, while not loudly assertive, achieve subtle and magnificent feats alongside intricate single-piece knits, neoprene-trimmed furs, and shearling embellished with chevron feathers. Ultimately, the goal is not just aesthetic beauty, but wearable reality.
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Precision and emotion, realism and refinement coexist in Delfina Delettrez Fendi's approach to high jewelry. The collection's debut, one-of-a-kind pieces, extend the idea of the couture ensemble to jewelry. Both timeless and contemporary, extraordinary white and yellow diamonds are paired with green, orange, and pink padparadscha sapphires and spinels. The pink spinels in the FENDI Undarum set alone took 40 years to collect and will likely never be found again in their natural form.
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The understated, multifaceted nature of this couture collection culminates in embroidery techniques that merge the worlds of clothing and jewellery. To close the show, models carrying jewel-box-like minaudières set the mood with bejeweled embellishments and intricately layered tone-on-tone paillettes and stones. The shimmering rose glow of the final look took 1,200 hours of handwork to achieve.
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The show soundtrack was "The Cold Song" by Klaus Nomi. Based on composer Henry Purcell's original 17th century English Baroque music, the piece draws on the past as a foundation for the new wave of the present and future, reflecting the emotion and sophistication of the collection and of couture itself.
Japan brand ambassador Haruna Kawaguchi made a special appearance from Japan, and celebrities from around the world, including Naomi Watts, Zoe Saldana, Eiza González, Lily James, Bella Ranée Campen, and Heart Evangelista, attended the launch to celebrate the collection.
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Contact:
Fendi Japan
TEL. 03 6748 6233
URL. www.fendi.com
Courtesy of FENDICourtesy of FENDI"This season we wanted to focus on the fluidity, flow and form of couture techniques and marry these elements with a modern attitude," says Kim Jones, Artistic Director of Couture and Womenswear. "We worked from a template based on Delfina high jewellery. Even in looks that don't feature jewellery, the clothes themselves evoke the idea of jewellery through the collection's colour palette and embellishments. We play with the colours of precious stones – black diamonds, rubies and sapphires – as well as body colours, creating a play between soft and hard, body and jewellery."
Courtesy of FENDICourtesy of FENDI"The jewellery in this collection has an emotional relationship that I have and that I hope the women who will one day wear it have too," says Delfina Delettrez Fendi, Artistic Director of Fendi Jewelry. "It takes an obsessive passion to create these pieces of jewelry, tiny pieces of such intensity, meaning and individuality, and ultimately, such a direct and intimate connection to the body. They become a profoundly personal extension of the woman herself."
Courtesy of FENDICourtesy of FENDIOnce again, Kim Jones and the artisans of the Fendi atelier humanize the traditions of couture, making them accessible, voluminous yet light, fluid and gracefully draped. Eschewing "costume" and embracing a softer, more relaxed sense of female agency within the garments, suppleness is explored, expressed both in the flexibility of how the garments are worn, as seen particularly in the corset motifs on the exterior, and in how they actually feel when worn.
Courtesy of FENDICourtesy of FENDIThe collection plays with the idea of simplicity hiding complexity. Volume, drape and sculptural forms are achieved through intricate and precise pattern cutting; garments are often made with just a single seam. Second-skin silks, while not loudly assertive, achieve subtle and magnificent feats alongside intricate single-piece knits, neoprene-trimmed furs, and shearling embellished with chevron feathers. Ultimately, the goal is not just aesthetic beauty, but wearable reality.
Courtesy of FENDIPrecision and emotion, realism and refinement coexist in Delfina Delettrez Fendi's approach to high jewelry. The collection's debut, one-of-a-kind pieces, extend the idea of the couture ensemble to jewelry. Both timeless and contemporary, extraordinary white and yellow diamonds are paired with green, orange, and pink padparadscha sapphires and spinels. The pink spinels in the FENDI Undarum set alone took 40 years to collect and will likely never be found again in their natural form.
Courtesy of FENDIThe understated, multifaceted nature of this couture collection culminates in embroidery techniques that merge the worlds of clothing and jewellery. To close the show, models carrying jewel-box-like minaudières set the mood with bejeweled embellishments and intricately layered tone-on-tone paillettes and stones. The shimmering rose glow of the final look took 1,200 hours of handwork to achieve.
Courtesy of FENDIThe show soundtrack was "The Cold Song" by Klaus Nomi. Based on composer Henry Purcell's original 17th century English Baroque music, the piece draws on the past as a foundation for the new wave of the present and future, reflecting the emotion and sophistication of the collection and of couture itself.
Japan brand ambassador Haruna Kawaguchi made a special appearance from Japan, and celebrities from around the world, including Naomi Watts, Zoe Saldana, Eiza González, Lily James, Bella Ranée Campen, and Heart Evangelista, attended the launch to celebrate the collection.
Courtesy of FENDIContact:
Fendi Japan
TEL. 03 6748 6233
URL. www.fendi.com
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