Fendi 08秋冬·米兰秀场

MILAN, February 21, 2008 – When Karl Lagerfeld began designing for Fendi—that would be 1965—there were no other furriers (at least in Italy) who had the ambition to put fur at the forefront of fashion innovation. So much has gone around since then that it's almost unimaginable—fur has been "in" and "out," markets have surged and crashed, and now we find ourselves in the unprecedented position where there's another economic wobble at exactly the same time that practically every fashion label is showing fur coats, gilets, chubbies, bags, you name it. The upshot is that it takes some oomph to keep Fendi in pole position, not just regarding ready-to-wear, but in streaking ahead with the extra extras in the furs, pushing the luxury to points that are out of reach of the common manufacturer.