See fashion show<\/a> \u00a0 \u201cThey were my mentors. They gave me my career. And I felt part of their teamwork. I would like people to remember all that they created at Fendi. It\u2019s about time we mentioned someone else besides Karl Lagerfeld<\/a>,\u201d she noted in a pre-show interview.<\/p>\n See fashion show<\/a> \u00a0 See fashion show<\/a> \u00a0 See fashion show<\/a> \u00a0 Underlining the brand\u2019s importance to the group, luxury emperor Bernard Arnault sat front row with his wife H\u00e9l\u00e8ne at the show. See fashion show<\/a> \u00a0 \n Copyright \u00a9 2026 FashionNetwork.com All rights reserved.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published February 25, 2026 The big cat is back at Fendi. Where Maria Grazia Chiuri staged a formidably…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12823],"tags":[1576,3551,997,12850,37633,2097,17252,2009,4955,12760,41120,19247,32220,27583,13566],"class_list":["post-66014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fendi","tag-beauty","tag-dior","tag-fashion","tag-fendi","tag-grazia","tag-karl-lagerfeld","tag-later","tag-luxury","tag-lvmh","tag-maria-grazia-chiuri","tag-mink","tag-network","tag-pierpaolo-piccioli","tag-professionals","tag-valentino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66014","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=66014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Fendi](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/da34.jpg\")
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Arguably the most influential women\u2019s designer of the past decade thanks to her reigns at Valentino<\/a> and then Dior<\/a>, Chiuri is already working her magic at Fendi in a seriously chic collection that will win legions of fans among women and men.
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The collection marked a return to the house for Chiuri, who began her career there back in 1989. Later<\/a> becoming joint creative director of Valentino with Pierpaolo Piccioli<\/a> in 1999, and achieving global fame. This collection clearly riffed on her days there working in Rome with the famous five Fendi sisters- Paola, Anna, Franca, Carla, and Alda.<\/p>\n![\"Fendi](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/da86.jpg\")
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Underlining her point, the runway was completed in a bold stencil print- one-meter-high- which read: Less I, More Us. It was Maria Grazia\u2019s motto for her debut collection.
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Chiuri\u2019s experience as a couturier at Dior was also apparent in her great use of the haute fourrure atelier at Fendi, sending out some great new parkas, lined or trimmed in astrakhan; a striking camouflage intarsia blouson; rockstar wolf peacoats and the Baguette bag she helped invent in psychedelic mink<\/a> or flecked anthracite fox.\u00a0
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Musing on how the five Fendi sisters regarded fur as such a precious product they used every scrap, Chiuri completed Perspex heeled booties and a series of wing-collar necklaces with dashes of fox.<\/p>\n![\"Fendi](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c68b.jpg\")
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Another key element was the manner in which the Rome-born designer mimicked the soft fluidity of fur, with a softer shapes and silhouettes in the ready-to-wear- for both men and women. Showing the crispest of tailoring with almost identical blazers for guys and girls.\u00a0
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\u201cI wanted one wardrobe, not two,\u201d she smiled.
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Chiuri also played with some of her signature ideas from Dior, like calf-length skirts and but with a tougher, sexier twist, composing them d\u00e9collet\u00e9 in risqu\u00e9 lace, perforated leather, or sheer black silk.
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Her injection of street style didn\u2019t quite work, whether the muddied yellow biker jacket or a couple in faded double denim. Though their footwear certainly did- one expects the mock zebra boots to also be commercial successes.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Fendi](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d139.jpg\")
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This season, Maris Grazia\u2019s love of teamwork expressed itself in a linkup with Mirella Bentivoglio, creating limited-edition jewellery, from ideas first dreamed up in the 1970s. As well as a series of tops playing with the artist\u2019s double-entendre lettering style, such as NOIa or (Noi\/Noia) meaning we and boredom. Or foulard folle, meaning the crazy scarf. In a generous touch, Fendi will help finance the preservation of Bentivoglio\u2019s archive.<\/p>\n
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Throughout, Chiuri worked with a very sombre palette, oodles of black, midnight blue, dark green, a touch of grey and red, and a little ivory.
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\u201cI think we must be pragmatic. I am tired of looking at colours in Instagram. Fashion is not entertainment.\u00a0Fashion is a job. I am at that kind of designer. I am a worker in fashion. So, I want to [create] clothes that the people love to use. I don’t want to do entertainment. I want the real thing,\u201d sniffed the tigerish couturier.<\/p>\n![\"Fendi](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/be4e.jpg\")
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Whose big cats- lions and leopards- also appeared on a great series of mink scarves and stoles, which also read \u201cSisters\u201d- that seem destined to be huge hits. Made in another savvy collaboration with artist SAGG Napoli, with whom Chiuri already partnered with on her Diane The Hunter collection for Dior, a sister brand within the giant luxury conglomerate LVMH<\/a>. Though this was a far more seductive collation than anything she dreamed up in Paris.
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And real is certainly what she produced. A bona fide hit collection, restoring coherence to Fendi after several years of drift.
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