No black nightie for sleepless nights at Fendi, and in Benito’s country, we discover workers lost in the intricacies of work attire… Admittedly, my conception of man dates more from the Neanderthal than from Homo sapiens and, consequently, the one presented to me has none of my values or references. But is it really necessary to choose and to want at all costs to make us drink out of a Caterpillar dildo of a Henri III mignon or a Païva, in the masculine form, and not complain?

Silvia Venturini Fendi a few days ahead of the luxury brand’s show at its factory in Capannuccia, Bagno a Ripoli, a 30-minute drive from Florence.

 

She revealed that her grandmother, Adele Fendi, founded the house in 1925 in Rome but that a few years earlier she had learned the craft from cousins who were leather goods artisans in the Tuscan city.

The state-of-the-art facility in Capannuccia, dedicated to the production of Fendi’s most iconic bags and small leather goods, is nestled in the Tuscan countryside and inserted into the landscape where an abandoned kiln lay, the Fornace Brunelleschi.

Surrounded by seven hectares of greenery scattered with a 700-olive tree grove, allowing the production of oil from the factory itself of up to 900 liters a year.In keeping with Fendi’s commitment to highlight global crafts also key in the Fendi Hand in Hand project focused on the Baguette bag Venturini Fendi has invited celebrated architect Kengo Kuma to chip in and select an artisan to rework the Peekaboo design.