Milan Fashion Week: Fendi offers chic utilitarian clothes
The animal rights group is pressuring Fendi to join other global fashion brands that have agreed to use synthetic alternatives to real fur
An anti-fur protester crashed the Fendi runway show Wednesday during the first day of Milan Fashion Week of mostly womenswear previews for Fall-Winter 2024-25.
The PETA activist jumped into the models’ finale holding up a sign that read “Animals are not clothing," before being whisked away by security.
The animal rights group is pressuring Fendi to join other global fashion brands that have agreed to use synthetic alternatives to real fur.
Fendi was born nearly a century ago as a fur and leather shop in Rome, and fur remains a core part of the brand’s DNA, even if featured a bit less on their runway shows in recent years.
Kim Jones created utilitarian looks in a somber palette for Fendi's next cold-weather season, with a twist.
Outwear was sculpted with big sleeves and arching lines, made cozy by criss-crossing knitwear that layered over top as fishermen knit scarves or cardigan shawls, sometimes anchored by sleeves.
Suggesting a devil-may-care attitude, ribbed bodysuits were left untucked with leather trousers and a shearling jacket. One-shoulder knitwear hedged bets against climate warming, paired with shiny leather skirts and boots.
Jones said the collection was meant to marry 1980s British subculture with Roman style epitomized by Silvia Venturini Fendi, the brand's menswear and accessories designer, who was wearing a “very chic utilitarian suit" when they met.
