Everything You Need To Know About The Fendi Fall Winter 2025 Show

The Roman house turns 100 in grand style, helmed by third generation matriarch Silvia Venturini Fendi.

In our opinion, Fendi scion Silvia Venturini Fendi should be named as the brand's creative director for both womens and menswear. Credit: Fendi

By Keng Yang Shuen, 1 Mar 2025

The Ultimate Fendi Insider Designed The Collection

With former creative director Kim Jones bowing out last September, it fell on the Roman house's third-gen matriarch Silvia Venturini Fendi to take the reins for the Fendi Fall Winter 2025 collection - and its assertively Italian POV was met with high praise from industry insiders and observers alike.

Fendi matriarch Silvia Venturini Fendi.
Fendi

Veteran critic Cathy Horyn of The Cut had this to say: "The new collection had a refreshing elegance without looking stuffy, and as much as I admired many of Kim Jones’ clothes, they seemed, in hindsight, studied: modern, perhaps in cut but without punch and, above all, that hard-to-pinpoint Roman sense of theater... LVMH is apparently looking for a new creative director, but after seeing Fendi’s full-bodied collection — glamour that strides ahead — I wondered why."

Fendi Celebrated Its 100th Anniversary In Grand Style

2025 is a big year for the house - after all, it was founded by Edoardo Fendi and Adele Casagrande Fendi, back in 1925 and 100 is looking good on Fendi. For one, the brand unveiled its Spazio space (Fendi's brand new Milanese headquarters), which nods to the historic Fendi boutique and atelier on Via Borgognona in Rome. It’s here that the five legendary Fendi sisters — Alda, Anna, Carla, Franca and Paola — shaped the house’s identity, weaving together glamour, craft and a sense of family that still defines the family today.

Finally, A Grown-Up POV On Glamour

For this collection Silvia Venturini Fendi looked back — not just at the brand's rich archives, but at her own personal memories of the house — blending craftsmanship, irreverence, and Roman glamour into something both nostalgic and forward-looking. Textures took centre stage, with shearling manipulated to mimic noble furs, plisse and patchwork leathers adding tactile intrigue, and tailoring subverted with playful proportions and unexpected materials. The palette is pure Rome at dusk, from forest green and petrol blue to cinnamon, bubblegum and terracotta, while eveningwear shimmered with mirror embroideries, draped duchesse satin, and Chantilly lace with an edge.

That Is Not Real Fur

While the Roman house made its name as a fur specialist, most of the furry-looking things in the show were actually crafted out of shearling - Fendi used intarsia, honeycomb and patchwork techniques to mimic the look of fur.

The Fendi Spy Is Officially Back

Anyone who knows their Y2K fashion would remember the Fendi Spy - one of the biggest hits of the mid-2000s, the Spy was the poster girl for the bohemian vibe of the era. First launched in 2005 by Silva Venturini Fendi, the 2025 version is a more deconstructed version - it's been reimagined with a twisted handle in sorbet-hued shearling. We're missing the old lighter-shaped hardware that was such a key feature but who knows, Fendi might bring that back further down the road.

... As Are Funkier Versions Of The Fendi Baguette

The Baguette was one of the icons (and we don't use this term lightly) of the late 90's and 2000s that saw luxury houses like Fendi launching them in a million different tricked out iterations with exotic appliques, embroideries, and special materials like brass and wood. These days however, most luxury bags tend to be uniformly made of very nice leather, with variations mostly restricted to size and colour options.

According to Fendi's press release - this particular Baguette is made of "mirrored embroideries" - might we be seeing a revival of the bags with vivid personalities again?