{"id":19206,"date":"2026-05-22T05:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/19206\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:56:31","slug":"fendi-fall-2026-ready-to-wear-runway-fashion-show-collection-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/19206\/","title":{"rendered":"Fendi Fall 2026: Ready to Wear Runway, Fashion Show & Collection Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMaria Grazia Chiuri, who kicked off her Dior era with the slogan \u201cWe should all be feminists,\u201d had a new motto at the ready Wednesday for her Fendi debut in Milan: \u201cLess I, more us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHer coed show also mostly dispensed with the pronouns his and hers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA shared wardrobe,\u201d Chiuri said amid the backstage hubbub. \u201cThe idea was to work on the collection with the same team for men and women because the idea is that we do a coat, we do a jacket, we do pants. We change the size, but it\u2019s the same \u2014 a transversal wardrobe.\u2026My idea is to make the jacket that everyone desires.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo those were Chiuri\u2019s big ideas. How were the clothes?<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the whole, this was a crowd-pleaser of a collection, shy on fashion thrills but strong on realistic, approachable and well-crafted classics \u2014 and without the luxury overload you sometimes felt from the Roman house.<\/p>\n

\n\tMuch of the collection was black, which you could read as sober and soign\u00e9, or safe and salable. Chiuri also dipped into denim, military and bohemian themes, sending a message that her Fendi<\/a> is not necessarily about what \u201cshe\u201d imposes, but what \u201cthey\u201d might want.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere were a handful of offbeat propositions, including folkloric, fur-trimmed vests, an Army green flight suit and a beat-up motocross jacket, even if it was in a yellow and black colorway.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, you can count on Chiuri to turn out handsome tailored jackets and woolen coats, pleated skirts, delicate lace cocktail dresses and timeless evening columns, here in panne velvet with vague 1920s airs.<\/p>\n

\n\tLittle white leather collars \u2014 worn like a choker with everything from suits to evening dresses \u2014 felt like a wink to the late, great Karl Lagerfeld, who headed Fendi\u2019s fur and ready-to-wear for more than 50 years, while cross straps as closures on jackets felt like a nod to Kim Jones, Chiuri\u2019s menswear counterpart at Dior and Fendi\u2019s previous womenswear designer.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, the five founding Fendi sisters were immortalized in furry intarsia football scarves, which also came with phrases by Italian artist Sagg Napoli, such as \u201cRooted but not stuck.\u201d Continuing a dialogue with female artists she struck up while at Dior, Chiuri also worked with the estate of Italian sculptor and poet Mirella Bentivoglio for jewelry and graphic T-shirts.<\/p>\n

\n\tOverall, the accessories were as straightforward and familiar as the clothes, including a bevy of heavily embellished Baguette bags, which came out shortly after Chiuri first joined Fendi in 1989 at age 24, moving over to Valentino a decade later, and Dior in 2016.<\/p>\n

\n\tFur made several appearances \u2014 as tippets, collars and patchwork coats \u2014 but Fendi clarified they were all remodeled from existing skins. Outside, anti-fur protesters hollered at exiting guests through megaphones, as they did at Diesel on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\n\tChiuri\u2019s was the first of several big debuts this Milan Fashion Week<\/a>, and the vast runway venue heaved with LVMH brass, celebrities and all the top retailers and editors.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s really exciting to start a new project,\u201d Chiuri enthused backstage. \u201cI want to celebrate all the heritage and also the values of this brand where I learned so much, because working with the five sisters was really a big school, not only for me, for many designers. They taught me to work in a team, to collaborate, to be innovative while maintaining tradition. Those are the elements of our work here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019ll be interesting to see how Chiuri\u2019s us-generation approach evolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria Grazia Chiuri, who kicked off her Dior era with the slogan \u201cWe should all be feminists,\u201d had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12823],"tags":[5543,12850,4955,12760,14093],"class_list":["post-19206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fendi","tag-fall","tag-fendi","tag-lvmh","tag-maria-grazia-chiuri","tag-milan-fashion-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}