FENDI’S NEW RENAISSANCE MAN
The era of Zoom has almost counter-intuitively provided us with rare moments of intimacy. For example, even though I’m in London and Kim Jones is in Paris, when I connect with the designer two days before his first Fendi couture show in late January this year, he’s not sequestered in a press room but in the middle of a fitting with Christy Turlington and her nephew James. Actually, at the precise moment I catch him, he’s eating his lunch.
“THE THING I WANT TO DO, LOOKING AT THE ARCHIVE OF FENDI AND THEN LOOKING AT IT NOW, IS TO REALLY LIGHTEN IT.” —KIM JONES
For Jones, time right now has to be snatched where it can be. Between overseeing the menswear collections for Dior in Paris and designing womenswear collections for Fendi in Rome, he has been working constantly, perpetually in
