At Fendi’s Fall/Winter 2025 couture presentation, Kim Jones delivered a masterclass in Roman sensuality—where soft power meets sculptural precision.
In the hushed elegance of the Colonnade at the Palais Brongniart in Paris, Fendi’s Fall/Winter 2025 Haute Couture unfolded like a silk scroll—quiet, majestic, and intimately Roman.
Creative Director Kim Jones more refines his couture vocabulary at Fendi, merging Italian classic sensuality with minimalist architectural extremes. This season, Jones referenced ancient sculpture, reinterpreting Roman goddesses’ draping silhouettes for a modern age that celebrates restraint and opulence in equal measure.
The colours were celestial: ivory, alabaster, rose quartz, bronze, and pale smoke grey. But luxury was in the fabrics. Silk gazar flowed like molten marble. Sheer wool flowed like a master sculptor’s hand. Beaded mosaics glimmered under moonbeam spotlights. Every creation was edged with the precision of tailoring but flowed with the poetry of dance.
Jones’s muse was the new woman—intelligent, perceptive, and stylishly chic. The collection featured a range of slender gowns, tunic coats, and system separates that seemed to be weightless but were constructed to an engineer’s logic. Showstopper: a bronzy cape, smocked in ancient Rome-inspired patterns laser-cut from leather and embroidery so fine it looked born, not made.
Accessories were minimal yet powerful—architectural clutches, amphora-inspired jewelry, and hair styled in soft Greco-Roman waves. It was couture as quiet power: no need to scream luxury when every seam whispers it.
While some shows shock and awe, Fendi’s allure was magnetic—a celebration of tactility, precision, and femininity that never tries too hard. It’s a rare and refined confidence that only true couture can deliver.
