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Kim Jones presents the FENDI Couture spring summer 2023 collection in Paris.
Collection Notes
This season, I wanted to concentrate on the techniques and craft of couture, with the lightness, fluidity and attitude of today. It’s a celebration of the ateliers and the craftspeople who realise these garments, the intense work and emotional commitment to each piece that exists for both maker and wearer, and how the intimate traditions of the couture are both living and breathing. The collection is an inner world made into an external one – both figuratively and literally – with a sense of underwear becoming eveningwear.
![FENDI couture spring summer 2023](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/29-6.jpg)
Couture Traditions
This season, Kim Jones and the craftspeople of the FENDI ateliers continue to approach the couture collection as an inner-world palimpsest, where iterations, transparencies and techniques of the past go to make up the present and move subtly into the future.
Couture traditions are made both human and approachable, light with luminosity, lucidity, and ease for the wearer. Eschewing ‘costume’ and embracing a softer, more yielding feeling of agency for the woman in the clothing, a mutability is sought and expressed.
The flou is concentrated on and in the form of the dress, yet an idea of the ensemble is also revived in a new sense, with a notion of purposeful flux and flexibility replacing impenetrability. Winged sleeves are often detachable; lingerie is designed as part of a look, often in the same intensely embroidered and unexpected fabrications, even when invisible; coats mirror the intense embroidery of their matching dresses on the inside yet can be reversed; ‘apron’ wrap skirts can also be worn as stoles.
Sprezzatura
An artful ‘sprezzatura’ of done and undone permeates all: a nonchalance and purposeful imperfection to achieve more human perfection. This clothing is not just about being looked at but about being lived in.
Draping and tying on the body, the exploration of lace and its placement, the hand-pleating motifs, and an elevation of exceptional knit, give a sense of the sculptural and organic while at the same time displaying virtuoso ‘sprezzatura.’ Even utilitarian climbing carabiners are remade as luxury sculptural objects to tether materials nonchalantly.
An idea of done and undone, a machine world versus an organic one, making hard soft and vice versa, comes together with the supreme skills of the FENDI ateliers in the motif of the metallic leather lace. At times appearing like chainmail – particularly in the recurring gloves – exceptionally soft and malleable leather is handcrafted with both lace-like cut-outs and inset with lace intarsias for a passage of dresses with their matching ensemble underwear.
In a similar vein, yarn in the form of the extraordinarily delicate Japanese mohair, Fuuga – the finest gauge to be found in the world – is worked on a frame and becomes the apotheosis of crochet in gossamer lightness more akin to lace in cascading gowns.
Front Row
![Adèle Exarchopoulos](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Adele-Exarchopoulos_atFendiCoutureSS23_039.jpg)
![Amber Valletta](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Amber-Valletta_atFendiCoutureSS23_013.jpg)
![Amber Valletta](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Amber-Valletta_atFendiCoutureSS23_044.jpg)
![Amber Valletta and Derek Blasberg](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Amber-Valletta-Derek-Blasberg_atFendiCoutureSS23_043.jpg)
![Anna Wintour, Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Anna-Wintour-Baz-Luhrmann-Catherine-Martin_atFendiCoutureSS23_051.jpg)
![Baz Luhrmann](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Baz-Luhrmann_atFendiCoutureSS23_022.jpg)
![(L-R) Bryanboy, Miss Fame, Miriam Leone, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Holland Taylor, Sarah Paulson, Law Roach, Kerry Washington and Jean Arnault](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Bryanboy-Miss-Fame-Miriam-Leone-Adele-Exarchopoulos-Holland-Taylor-Sarah-Paulson-Law-Roach-Kerry-Washington-Jean-Arnault_atFendiCoutureSS23_055.jpg)
![Courtney Love](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Courtney-Love_atFendiCoutureSS23_021.jpg)
![(2nd Left) Courtney Love, Leonetta Luciano Fendi, Farida Khelfa, Shalom Harlow, Amber Valletta, Rita Ora, Derek Blasberg, a guest and Olivier Rousteing](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Courtney-Love-Farida-Khelfa-Shalom-Harlow-Amber-Valletta-Rita-Ora-Derek-Blasberg-Olivier-Rousteing-Leonetta-Luciano-Fendi_atFendiCoutureSS23_053.jpg)
![Courtney Love and Olivier Rousteing](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Courtney-Love-Olivier-Rousteing_atFendiCoutureSS23_033.jpg)
![Courtney Love and Rita Ora](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Courtney-Love-Rita-Ora_atFendiCoutureSS23_041.jpg)
![Emilia Jones](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Emilia-Jones_atFendiCoutureSS23_020.jpg)
![Emilia Jones](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Emilia-Jones_atFendiCoutureSS23_046.jpg)
![Farida Khelfa](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Farida-Khelfa_atFendiCoutureSS23_014.jpg)
![Heart Evangelista](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Heart-Evangelista_atFendiCoutureSS23_008.jpg)
![Heart Evangelista](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Heart-Evangelista_atFendiCoutureSS23_027.jpg)
![Kerry Washington](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Kerry-Washington_atFendiCoutureSS23_036.jpg)
![Kerry Washington](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Kerry-Washington_atFendiCoutureSS23_037.jpg)
![(L-R) Kerry Washington, Jean Arnault and Zita d' Hauteville](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Kerry-Washington-Jean-Arnault-Zita-d39-Hauteville_atFendiCoutureSS23_045.jpg)
![Law Roach and Kerry Washington](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Kerry-Washington-Law-Roach_atFendiCoutureSS23_035.jpg)
![Miriam Leone](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Miriam-Leone_atFendiCoutureSS23_024.jpg)
![Miriam Leone](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Miriam-Leone_atFendiCoutureSS23_025.jpg)
![Rita Ora](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Rita-Ora_atFendiCoutureSS23_030.jpg)
![Rita Ora](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Rita-Ora_atFendiCoutureSS23_031.jpg)
![Sarah Paulson](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Sarah-Paulson_atFendiCoutureSS23_029.jpg)
![Sarah Paulson and Rita Ora](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Sarah-Paulson-Rita-Ora_atFendiCoutureSS23_032.jpg)
![Shalom Harlow](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Shalom-Harlow_atFendiCoutureSS23_047.jpg)
![(Left to Right) Shalom Harlow, Amber Valletta, and Rita Ora](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Shalom-Harlow-Amber-Valletta-Rita-Ora_atFendiCoutureSS23_049.jpg)
![Zita d'Hauteville](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Zita-d39Hauteville_atFendiCoutureSS23_017.jpg)
![Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Sarah-Paulson-Holland-Taylor_atFendiCoutureSS23_005.jpg)
Celebrities
![Adèle Exarchopoulos](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Adele-Exarchopoulos_atFendiCoutureSS23_001.jpg)
![Alessandro Preziosi](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Alessandro-Preziosi_atFendiCoutureSS23_002.jpg)
![Amber Valletta](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Amber-Valletta_atFendiCoutureSS23_003.jpg)
![Courtney Love](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Courtney-Love_atFendiCoutureSS23_004.jpg)
![Emilia Jones](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Emilia-Jones_atFendiCoutureSS23_005.jpg)
![Farida Khelfa](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Farida-Khelfa_atFendiCoutureSS23_006.jpg)
![Law Roach and Kerry Washington](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Kerry-Washington-Law-Roach_atFendiCoutureSS23_011.jpg)
![Law Roach](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Law-Roach_atFendiCoutureSS23_012.jpg)
![Leonetta Luciano Fendi](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Leonetta-Luciano-Fendi_atFendiCoutureSS23_013.jpg)
![Milly Alcock](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Milly-Alcock_atFendiCoutureSS23_014.jpg)
![Miriam Leone](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Miriam-Leone_atFendiCoutureSS23_015.jpg)
![Olivier Rousteing](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Olivier-Rousteing_atFendiCoutureSS23_017.jpg)
![Shalom Harlow](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/PLSA3408_f8e5efd1-acd8-4eb5-91db-e0415930ad42_20230126053630.jpg)
![Rita Ora](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Rita-Ora_atFendiCoutureSS23_018.jpg)
![Sarah Paulson](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Sarah-Paulson_atFendiCoutureSS23_020.jpg)
![Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Sarah-Paulson-Holland-Taylor_atFendiCoutureSS23_021.jpg)
![Zita d'Hauteville](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Zita-d39Hauteville_atFendiCoutureSS23_022.jpg)
![Kerry Washington](https://static.rain-mag.com/2023/01/Kerry-Washington_atFendiCoutureSS23_008.jpg)
Collection
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