"Last season, the show opened with her grandchildren in Bambina Silvia drag - based on a look she wore back in 1967 - hauling open a reproduction of the Fendi Palazzo's monumental doors. This time, the set was a modernist, pixellated landscape by the designer Marc Newson; blocks of pure colour designed, he said, to evoke a patchwork quilt - "its rich history rooted in intergenerational craft and commemoration." To those familiar with the dial-up internet connections of yore, it resembled a slowly downloading JPEG."
"Perception transforms thought, time and experience. Which was very much the mood of this Fendi collection - duality, multiplicity, ever-changing viewpoints, and existent history becoming something new. That was there in the soundtrack by Frédéric Sanchez, patching together snippets of the voices of Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Magnani from Italian cinema with operatic arias, all electronically fused. And, of course, it was present in the clothes,"
Silvia Venturini Fendi presented a Spring/Summer 2026 collection that fused family legacy with forward-looking design. The runway set by Marc Newson used a pixelated, colour-block landscape evoking patchwork and generational craft. Sound design by Frédéric Sanchez layered Italian cinema voices and operatic arias into an electronic collage that emphasized shifting viewpoints. Embroidery traditionally used outside Fendi bags was applied to interiors and revealed through a deliberately open Peekaboo, signalling ease with treasured objects. The collection emphasized duality, multiplicity and the transformation of history into renewed, casual luxury rooted in intergenerational familiarity.
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