When Karl Lagerfeld died in February this year Silvia Fendi lost her friend, mentor and colleague. But she had to keep working. Now, she's finding her own path as Fendi's creative director.
When the news of Karl Lagerfeld's death broke earlier this year, powerful reverberations were felt far beyond the fashion industry's inner circle.
But beyond Chanel and his own namesake label, there was another brand deeply impacted by his passing -- the house of Fendi, one of Italy's most powerful and storied luxury fashion houses.
Silvia was born into the fashion empire in 1961, and her mother worked in the studio, fitting models with the label's latest designs, right up until the latter stages of her pregnancy. In 1965, the Fendi sisters hired Lagerfeld as creative director, setting in motion a partnership that would endure for decades.As a child, Silvia was never far away from the creative core of the business, and at the age of six she appeared in a Fendi ad wearing a beaver bomber jacket and matching hat.
By 2016, they'd developed a close professional bond, so when the two designers walked across the Trevi fountain, where they had staged an enormous couture show to mark the brand's 90th anniversary, they strode out together, shoulder-to-shoulder as contemporaries.Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Fendi walking after Fendi's Autumn-Winter 2017 haute couture show.Tim Blanks
The two met in 2005 during the inaugural party of a new Fendi flagship store in Rome. As Guadagnino remembers it, he"spent the entire evening speaking to her and our conversation never ended. It is still happening now."Rome has always played an important role in the Fendi story.
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