Fendi & Luxury's Foray Into Workwear

In today's video we review Fendi's recent fall winter 2024 menswear collection & show by Silvia Venturini Fendi. When asked backstage about today’s fall show references, Silvia Venturini Fendi answered that there were none, as for her the creative process is a continuous flow from one collection to the next. She ultimately works on functionality and what she calls what she calls “great classics” that she constantly reviews and revisits. The inspiration, or the lack of it, is always the same, she explained, because “if you have obsessions, it’s difficult to let go of them.” Working for a brand founded by her family one hundred years ago gives her an appreciation of what comes from the past, but she’s also fascinated by what today has to offer. In her view, attitude, that ineffable quality impossible to pin down but immediately perceptible when it manifests, is what can turn timeless pieces into pertinent expressions of modernity. And although Venturini Fendi didn’t admit to any specific talent or aura or personality hovering over the collection, she conceded that Anne, princess royal, has been a rather inspiring figure. She’s a confident woman, whose elegance is dignified and unfussy. “I think she’s divine,” she said. It’s telling and a sign of the times that the work of menswear designers is increasingly influenced by female figures; not only does it underline the blurring of the genders and the dissolving of rigid signifiers, it also brings about “an attitude of liberati