Fendi Introduced Out Some Iconic Individuals to Rejoice Its Iconic Baguette Bag in New York Metropolis
When a designer decides to enterprise outdoors of their common vogue week metropolis, one expects them to more-or-less present the identical assortment they’d have at dwelling, for no matter season is being proven that vogue month. However for Fendi’s first time exhibiting at New York Style Week (as a substitute of its common Milan), Kim Jones and Silvia Venturini Fendi took a special — and possibly extra impactful — method.
They used their NYFW slot to have fun the twenty fifth anniversary of, effectively, a bag. However not simply any bag: the Fendi Baguette, a massively common cash-cow of a bag that I and lots of of my friends affiliate with New York Metropolis thanks largely to a really fashionable fictional newspaper columnist named Carrie Bradshaw, who wore them typically within the Y2K period.
Just like the Baguette itself, “Intercourse and the Metropolis” is having fun with a renaissance of late, and we discovered in season one in all “And Simply Like That” that Bradshaw maintains an affection for Baguettes in any case these years. In episode 9, she carries a pink sequined model that Fendi really designed in collaboration with the actor who portrays Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker. In acknowledgement of her simple contributions to the bag’s enduring success, Fendi seated Parker within the entrance row of its blowout runway occasion Friday evening, and even named her within the present notes. (Longtime “SATC” Costume Designer Patricia Subject was in attendance as effectively.)
“I did not wish to do a conventional ‘assortment’ for the anniversary,” Jones stated in a press release. “Reasonably it is a celebration of a time, of the second the Baguette grew to become well-known. I relate that point to a way of freedom in extra and enjoyable — each qualities the Baguette possesses.”
Extra and enjoyable have been on full show Friday evening, from the huge venue — Penn Station-adjacent Hammerstein Ballroom (not precisely someplace you’d discover Bradshaw) — to the celeb-filled entrance row (current collaborator Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Lori Harvey, Chloe Bailey, Maude Apatow, Evan Mock and Shay Mitchell). There was even somewhat off-the-runway ’90s supermodel reunion that includes Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, Shalom Harlow and Amber Valletta. Extra and enjoyable have been additionally seen on the runway, by way of a parade of daring ready-to-wear and equipment. Jones and Venturini Fendi tapped some iconic New Yorkers to collaborate on that as effectively.
Christy Turlington, Amber Valletta, Kate Moss and Shalom Harlow.
Photograph: Sean Zanni/Getty Photographs for FENDI
Marc Jacobs designed a collection of appears that made up “Half 2” of the runway present, for which every mannequin wore a large, Jamiroquai-esque fluffy hat paying homage to those Stephen Jones made for Jacobs’ Fall 2012 assortment. The quote Jacobs offered for the present notes was simply as odd and quirky as his designs.
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“I’ve received one phrase: Fendiroma. And it’s one phrase! It’s one other land, this Fendiroma… And I’ve received two phrases: The Baguette. It is a bag — and I’m by no means one to shrink back from an iconic bag.”
It is completely a bag, and it feels like a bag, like the rationale why you go to a retailer to purchase a bag… however Jacobs, Fendi and Jones confirmed us that it may be different issues, too.
On the runway, there have been baguette fanny packs, baguette clutches, baguette backpacks, baguette bracelets, baguette necklaces, baguette keychains and baguette belts. Jones put his simple stamp on the type by way of gorpcore baguettes, seen as cargo pockets on pants, jackets, vests, skirts, fleeces, jumpsuits, gloves, socks and even hats.
One other iconic New York model, Tiffany & Co. joined within the festivities as effectively, collaborating with Fendi on Tiffany-blue variations of the Baguette. (Like Fendi and Marc Jacobs, the jeweler can also be now owned by LVMH.)
As soon as this assortment hits retail (it is billed as a Resort 2023 line), the merchandising alternatives can be countless. You may virtually see the greenback indicators throughout every look. Covetable equipment and uncommon collaborative gadgets? Cha-ching.
“It was a special occasion once I designed this bag; the celebs aligned,” Venturini Fendi acknowledged, reflecting on the bag’s conception in 1997. “The horoscope stated it was a Fendi day.”
Not even Friday’s Mercury Retrograde — which little doubt made such an enormous, collaborative occasion much more troublesome to tug off — will cease the Baguette from persevering with to make LVMH numerous cash. See the complete assortment (and select your favourite) within the gallery beneath.
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