Fendi and Versace joined and presented the ‘Fendance’ collection

For the first time in fashion history, Fendi and Versace collaborate on a catwalk show and collection: Fendace.

How could have ever imagined Fendi and Versace work together? The answer is everything can be possible… of course. During the Milan Fashion Week, the two Italian brands joined and closed the most important runway shows in Milan, presenting an exceptional and extraordinary fashion collection named “Fendace”. The brands said the joint capsule, co-designed by Donatella Versace and Fendi creative directors Kim Jones and Silvia Venturini Fendi “born out of friendship and mutual professional respect. It’s a first in the history of fashion: two designers having a true creative dialogue that stems from respect and friendship”, said Donatella Versace. “It led to us swapping roles to create these two collections,”. She added.

The history-making catwalk event saw Donatella Versace switch places with Fendi creative leads, Kim Jones and Silvia Venturini-Fendi. The idea was that each designer design and innovate on behalf of the other brand. The result was a glorious celebration of fashion and the power of collaboration, which saw both Fendi and Versace signatures blended. The Fendace collection celebrated each other’s unique codes in quite a beautiful way. VERSACE BY FENDI explored an idea of ​​duality, most clearly seen in a fusion of the Fendi monogram with the Versace Greek Key motif, and FENDI BY VERSACE took a more punk rock stance with Donatella Versace declaring that pollution and disruption are the keys.

The designers visited each other’s archives, then created their version of the respective house codes and recruited an army of supermodels to display them.

For Kim Jones, that meant pin-pin dresses, gold baroque prints, and skimpy dresses worn by Kate Moss, Amber Valetta, Shalom Harlow, Adut Akech, and Precious Lee. Meanwhile, Donatella sent Gigi, Naomi and Emily Ratajkowski in pastel chainmail mini dresses with double FF logos, FF print trench coats with matching miniskirts and knee-high boots, a micro chainmail version of baguettes and peekaboos lined with Versace’s signature baroque print.