Fendi celebrated its 90th anniversary in the most ethereal mode ever: with a fairytale fountain fashion show in Rome. The models literally sashayed upon water, as a clear plexiglass runway stretched across Rome’s iconic Trevi Fountain. The couture collection’s theme was fittingly ‘Legends and Fairytales,’ as models walked across the backdrop of the famous fountains and pools from the 1960 film, La Dolce Vita. This marked the first-ever fashion show to take place at the Italian landmark. Guests were chartered to the show via a private Fendi plane from Paris’s couture collections to Rome—the only fitting way to arrive to a show of such stature, of course. The clothes mirrored the fairytale ambience—all nymphette dresses, swaggering capes with fur shredded and patched into intricate woodland scenes, replete with mink flowers and astrakhan skies straight out of a Hans Christian Andersen fable! Elaborate flowers embedded in delicate lace and chiffon, and bits of fur latticed into lace, the entire effect was befittingly that of a storybook come to life. Yes, you can sigh in ecstatic delight.
