MILAN – A hush fell over the Fendi runway because the front-row full of supermodels signaling the display was once about to start out: Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Kate Moss had taken their seats. Backstage, it was once nonetheless a murmur of job.
Kim Jones’ Spring-Summer 2024 assortment for Fendi unveiled during the primary day of Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday was once a twist on knitwear, anchored through leather-based.
The first glance set the tone: A kind-hugging color-block knit attire in mocha, child blue, salmon and ivory, with a double sash trailing on the waist lending drama and motion. A tri-colored take hold of gave the appropriate accessory.
The assortment general was once dainty: Knitwear was once more often than not very superb, accented every now and then through skinny golden chains developing main points on open backs. Slinky, clinging monochrome knit attire had peekaboo cutouts. The twinset trop gave method to integrated layers and sleeves that wrapped across the frame, a mysterious swirl. Dresses ruched across the frame, suggesting consistent movement.
A chunkier ribbed knit gave a chenille-soft look in an extended jacket and skirt with a wholesome entrance slit. Knit was once additionally formed right into a chainmail slip get dressed, with a coppery end, or neon-orange wrap get dressed.
Leather added substance: brief color-block jackets paired with an identical knit mini-skirt. Contrasting gloves completed many seems. Bags have been most commonly held as though clutches; a tiny, flat bag dangled from gloved palms.
As he took his bows, Jones — in his 6th season at Fendi after succeeding Karl Lagerfeld as womenswear clothier — despatched a kiss to the supermodel-filled front-row. Nearby was once a bevy of A-list actors: Demi Moore, Cristina Ricci, Gwendoline Christie, who all shared fun sooner than the display, at the side of Naomi Watts.
The runway was once flanked through monumental casts of Fendi baggage, that created archways with their opening flaps, or backdrops for VIPS and influencers to be photographed upon arrival.