Milan fashion week is officially under way, under a heavy cloud of smog. Some reports have said that at times in the last few days, the northern Italian city has been the second most polluted in the world. And while Fendi womenswear designer Kim Jones mentioned a sore throat brought on by the pollution, he was able to tell a handful of press backstage before his show that his latest collection was inspired by sketches from the Fendi archives.
They were the work of the late designer Karl Lagerfeld, who had a 54-year tenure at the Italian fashion house before Jones took the helm in 2020 and who used to sketch prolifically on notepads as chunky as the Yellow Pages.
