{"id":264827,"date":"2025-09-29T16:45:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.russh.com\/?p=264827"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:39:06","slug":"fendi-rave-revel-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.russh.com\/fendi-rave-revel-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Annaliese Lloyd wears Fendi\u2019s centenary collection for our September issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

For its centenary, Fendi unveiled a collection that felt simultaneously archival and electrifyingly fresh \u2014 a duality crystallised in our September ‘Rave & Revel’ issue<\/a>. Through the lens of Alex Wall and the styling of Thomas Townsend, Fendi\u2019s Autumn Winter 2025 collection<\/a> transcends mere fashion: it becomes memory reimagined, revelry embodied.<\/p>\n

Presented in Milan this February, the show opened not with spectacle but with intimacy: Silvia Venturini Fendi<\/a>\u2019s grandsons flinging wide monumental Roman doors. The gesture was symbolic \u2014 an invocation of heritage and inheritance, a reminder that fashion\u2019s future is always woven through its past. That same thread runs through the garments, reimagined in print. A lacquered coat or cardigan set echoes the quiet majesty of Rome; a crystalline hemline splinters light like the city after nightfall. The Roma bag asserts itself front and centre; a modern emblem of sophistication, reimagined in a supple, twisted leather.<\/p>\n

There is a lived-in authority to this collection \u2014 \u201cthe knowledge of self,\u201d as Venturini Fendi called it \u2014 and Lloyd channels that spirit. Her silhouettes exude assurance without ostentation: a cardigan grazing the waist, trousers cinched with a clean belt, dresses tailored to both veil and unveil. Jewellery flickers as emphasis rather than adornment. Each ensemble is complete, but never over-laboured.<\/p>\n

True to our ‘Rave & Revel’ sensibilities, a pulse of nocturnal decadence thrums beneath. Sequins spill from a neckline like champagne at 2am; hemlines pull into something more flirtatious. Yet the palette \u2013 creamy pinks pierced with flashes of deep blue, camel, and metallic gleam \u2014 anchors the collection firmly in the present.<\/p>\n

A century on, Fendi is not enshrining its legacy so much as animating it. Venturini Fendi has composed a wardrobe for the act of living: revelry not as diversion, but as expression. Garments at once at home in a palazzo\u2019s threshold and on a dance floor at dawn.<\/p>\n

The doors have swung open; the celebration has only begun.<\/p>\n

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Left: FENDI dress and earrings. Right: FENDI jacket.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Left: FENDI cardigan, skirt, bag and bracelet. Right: FENDI cardigan, skirt, shoes, and earrings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Left: FENDI top, trousers, belt and earrings. Right: FENDI dress and shoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Experience the\u00a0Rave & Revel<\/em>\u00a0issue in its entirety this September, available on newsstands from Monday 8 September 2025, and\u00a0through our online shop<\/a>.\u00a0Find a stockist near you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PHOTOGRAPHY Alex Wall<\/small><\/p>\n

FASHION Thomas Townsend <\/small><\/p>\n

MODEL Annaliese Lloyd @ Priscillas <\/small><\/p>\n

HAIR Kyye Reed @ AP\u2014REPS<\/small><\/p>\n

MAKEUP Sean Brady @ AP\u2014REPS <\/small><\/p>\n

PHOTOGRAPHER\u2019S ASSISTANT Lachie Starling, Shae Low<\/span><\/p>\n

PRODUCTION Olivia Repaci<\/span><\/p>\n\n