Fendi
Designers: Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini Fendi

• “Mohicans strutted down the Fendi catwalk at Italy’s fashion week on Thursday in a visually provocative show set to The Prodigy’s Fire Starter which left the snowy world of Milan far behind.” [AFP]
• “Fendi is to fur what Ferrari is to cars. Yet given current concerns about animal rights, the brand has moved from the lavish fur coats that were all the rage in the 1980s to a more discreet way of interpreting fur as fashion.” [AP]
• “Fendi’s fall show in Milan on Thursday morning was awash with fur of every variety: on glasses, in hair, on coats. But perhaps most eye-catching were the long haired faces sewn onto bags, which closely resembled Elmo and the rest of the Sesame Street clan. At least they’re wearing eyeshadow?” [The Daily Beast]
• “The was something almost mystical and certainly atavistic going on in Fendi’s show. The models wore fur–doh–but they also sprouted it.” [The Daily Telegraph]
• “It is hard not to marvel at the sheer manipulation of it all–fur that mimicked leather fringing, leather fringing that mimicked fur; fur patchworked like camouflage, shaved, tiered, striped, circled, 3D embroidered and with trompe l’oeil effects to boot.” [ELLEuk.com]
• “The models with fur tidbits in their hair, furry bags with dangling stuffed owls (of fur) and a variety of outfits in bright colors like shocking pink announced a new, playful and confident mood at Fendi.” [International Herald Tribune]
• “Karl Lagerfeld embraced the idea of a ‘pretty in punk’ collection that had ‘a take no prisoners’ approach to the topic.” [NOWFASHION]
• “[A] sharply colored, engaging collection.” [On The Runway/The New York Times]
• “Seemed like a not-so-subtle commentary on the conspicuous reemergence of fur in luxury collections.” [POPSUGAR Fashion]
• “Fun is Fendi and Fendi is Very Fun for Autumn/Winter 2013 it seems.” [SHOWstudio]
• “Fendi’s FF insignia was originally a sixties thing that stood for Fun Furs. Somehow it became codified as the corporate logo. Today, with his 96th (!!!) collection for the house, Karl Lagerfeld restored that original inflection.” [Style.com]
• “Minimalism–and maximalism taken to extremes. Black–and colors that sang with brightness. Severity–and lashings of opulence. What something is, and what its exact opposite is, was the overriding theme at a powerful, punkish, and sometimes playful fall collection from Fendi.” [Vogue.com]
• “It was The Last of the Fendi Mohicans that Karl Lagerfeld sent out at this morning’s autumn/winter 2013-14 show.” [Vogue.com UK]
• “Fur was literally flying at Fendi—on striped coats and skirts, on bags and shoes, and even as punk faux-hawk hairpieces.” [Wmagazine.com]
• “A feisty treatise on graphic flash delivered with an ultracool, faux-aggressive attitude.” [WWD]