Some of the most stylish women the British fashion designer Kim Jones sees on the streets of Rome as he walks to the Fendi design studio are over 2,000 years old.
The classical statues of Rome were Jones’s muses for the Fendi show which launched Milan fashion week – along with 62-year-old Silvia and 36-year-old Delfina Fendi, the third- and fourth-generation women of the family whom he works with, as well as “women I know and women I see in the street”.
Timeless elegance is in fashion again as an era of 90s nostalgia runs its course. Jones parlayed the languid grace of Rome’s statuary, with its elegant long robes and bare marble shoulders, into simple full-length sleeveless dresses. No draping, just a long fluid line in a fine knit fabric that rippled over the body.
