We may have been in Milan but there was a London insouciance about Fendi's Autumn/Winter '24 show – traditionally British cable knits were worn askew, one arm exposed, while coloured tights (in tomato-red, cobalt-blue and aubergine-purple) peeked out from knee-high riding boots. If Helena Bonham Carter had an Italian cousin, this is what she would wear.
'I was looking at 1984 in the FENDI archives,' said Kim Jones, Artistic Director of Couture and Womenswear. 'The sketches reminded me of London during that period: the Blitz Kids, the New Romantics, the adoption of workwear, aristocratic style, Japanese style.'
