For its centenary, Fendi unveiled a collection that felt simultaneously archival and electrifyingly fresh — a duality crystallised in our September 'Rave & Revel' issue. Through the lens of Alex Wall and the styling of Thomas Townsend, Fendi’s Autumn Winter 2025 collection transcends mere fashion: it becomes memory reimagined, revelry embodied.

Presented in Milan this February, the show opened not with spectacle but with intimacy: Silvia Venturini Fendi’s grandsons flinging wide monumental Roman doors. The gesture was symbolic — an invocation of heritage and inheritance, a reminder that fashion’s future is always woven through its past. That same thread runs through the garments, reimagined in print. A lacquered coat or cardigan set echoes the quiet majesty of Rome; a crystalline hemline splinters light like the city after nightfall. The Roma bag asserts itself front and centre; a modern emblem of sophistication, reimagined in a supple, twisted leather.

There is a lived-in authority to this collection — “the knowledge of self,” as Venturini Fendi called it — and Lloyd channels that spirit. Her silhouettes exude assurance without ostentation: a cardigan grazing the waist, trousers cinched with a clean belt, dresses tailored to both veil and unveil. Jewellery flickers as emphasis rather than adornment. Each ensemble is complete, but never over-laboured.

True to our 'Rave & Revel' sensibilities, a pulse of nocturnal decadence thrums beneath. Sequins spill from a neckline like champagne at 2am; hemlines pull into something more flirtatious. Yet the palette – creamy pinks pierced with flashes of deep blue, camel, and metallic gleam — anchors the collection firmly in the present.

A century on, Fendi is not enshrining its legacy so much as animating it. Venturini Fendi has composed a wardrobe for the act of living: revelry not as diversion, but as expression. Garments at once at home in a palazzo’s threshold and on a dance floor at dawn.

The doors have swung open; the celebration has only begun.

Experience the Rave & Revel issue in its entirety this September, available on newsstands from Monday 8 September 2025, and through our online shop. Find a stockist near you.

PHOTOGRAPHY Alex Wall

FASHION Thomas Townsend

MODEL Annaliese Lloyd @ Priscillas

HAIR Kyye Reed @ AP—REPS

MAKEUP Sean Brady @ AP—REPS

PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANT Lachie Starling, Shae Low

PRODUCTION Olivia Repaci

Feature image: FENDI jacket, top and trousers.