Saturday, September 22: Fendi
Designers: Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini Fendi

• “Fendi hit Milan fashion week Saturday with a ‘big bang explosion,’ showing off a sleek summer/spring 2013 collection.” {AFP}
• “Fendi’s latest summer collection has a geometric certainty.” {The Associated Press}
• “Haute celebrity, impeccable designer pedigree, and some often excellent clothes, shoes and bags – the spring/summer 2013 Fendi show in Milan had them all.” {The Daily Telegraph}
• “This was a strong Fendi collection, with its shards or blocks of colour used to define the square side panels on structured skirts, the inside leg of a leather trouser, a collar or a waistband.” {ELLEuk.com}
• “Who can find fault with a collection that so seamlessly fuses an athletic sensibility with the brand’s luxurious fur outerwear?” {FabSugar}
• “Fendi appeared to enter a new dimension this weekend, staging an impressive runway display in a mighty new industrial show space and presenting a collection whose graphic patterns, Memphis color palette and sound baffle convex finish suggested both fashionable depth of field and fresh sense of purpose for the label.” {Fashion Wire Daily}
• “Both Mr. Lagerfeld’s designs and the bags by Silvia Venturini Fendi hit a high spot: the clothes for their graphic shapes, geometric lines and vivid colors; the accessories for their 3-D geometry and intense handwork.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “Karl Lagerfeld’s mind is a vast store of references, handled with a sense of play in his Fendi collection, where black-framed color-blocked skirts and dresses seemed folded like construction paper. Colors are Lagerfeldian–that telling drop of turquoise–and the furs often blend magically into fabrics.” {The New York Times}
• “The Fendi show today began and ended with a big bang: the first a huge balloon popping to allow the models onto the catwalk; the last an explosive print that dissolved into an infinity of starlike sparkles. In between came a meditation on modernism courtesy of Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini Fendi, who never stop putting futuristic spins on the 87-year-old house’s traditions.” {Style.com}
• “This was one of those upbeat, positive, faster-than-the-speed-of-light Fendi collections, an athletically powered processing of the notions of spatial geometry and dimensionality fused to the house’s traditional and time-honored artisanal skills.” {Vogue.com}
• “This was a pacey collection that seemed to gain itself plenty of admirers–just see how many people mobbed Karl backstage.” {Vogue.co.uk}
• “A crystal clear vision of dynamic sportswear, not plain but crisp in its approachability, which did not come at the expense of craft.” {WWD}