As FENDI celebrates its centenary year, it reflects on milestones and memories from across the decades. Landing back in 1977, the FENDI Summer 2025 collection is a fresh wink at Karl Lagerfeld’s first-ever expression of FENDI Ready-to-Wear for Spring/Summer 1978 collection immortalized not in a fashion show, but through the mythical tale of Histoire d’Eau.
Drawing upon the sun-drenched palette of a Roman summer and the exuberant sophistication of the Italian seaside, the FENDI Summer 2025 collection elevates breezy fabrics and casual ensembles with cocooning shapes and nature-inspired embroideries. The sculptural forms of red coral are a leitmotif throughout, adorning necklines and jewelry as embroidered details. From coral red and sandy terracotta to seafoam, buttermilk, iced lemon and ocean blue, the color card reveals irreverent expressions of FENDI by the sea.
The rich savoir faire and design rigor of the FENDI ateliers can be felt in myriad treatments, finishes and embellishments across the collection, as patterns come to life in swathes of patchwork devoré lace, delicate lambskin leather appliqué, and touches of coral on beaded collars or sculpted jewellery.
Strings of golden shells abound as hardware and decoration, embellishing athletic coral swimwear styles and beach tunics. An exercise in masculine summer style reprises coral bandana prints, embroideries and postcard-inspired graphics across stand collar mid-sleeve shirts and matching silk shorts, whilst coral and sand striped knitwear is infused with a sense of athletic nostalgia.
These artisanal gestures are woven throughout the FENDI Summer 2025 Accessories collection, where diverse raffia techniques abound in conversation with trompe l’oeil ‘denim’ Cuoio Romano leather, denim FF jacquards and coral bandana motifs.
On foot, the new FENDI Fling thong sandal wraps across the instep with a single abstract ‘F’ strap, joining the classic FENDI Colibri pumps and flatform wedges re-imagined in Sea Garden embroideries, bandana prints and panels of raffia mesh.
The FENDI Summer 2025 collection is available in FENDI boutiques worldwide.
