Special envoys to Milan.
Glamor is the word that comes to mind in front of this Kim Jones parade, the first
"in person, live and in public"
for Fendi, the Italian house which appointed him a few months ago as successor by Karl Lagerfeld. Karl, the one to whom Jones cannot help being compared and who, even gone, still takes up so much space in the houses where he worked. So the Briton takes a step aside, taking as his starting point not the German designer but one of his relatives, Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), a magnificent Gatsby born in Porto, a fashion illustrator that some said to be superior. to Warhol, a regular at Studio 54 and summer companion of Lagerfeld in Saint-Tropez.
“If I studied Karl's legacy, I also looked around him, his contemporaries, those who interested him,
explains Kim Jones, who found in Silvia Venturini Fendi (artistic director of man and accessories) a witness to this glorious past.
While digging through the archives, I
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