PARIS — What's a milestone celebration without an exuberant display evoking the idea of bursting with joy?
Fendi continued its centenary by unveiling "Eaux d'Artifice," a high jewelry collection whose name plays on the French word for fireworks and which pays homage to Rome with designs taking their cues from the manifold water features of its hometown.
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" High jewelry for Fendi is the most intimate voice," Delfina Delettrez Fendi, artistic director of jewelry at the Roman house, said in an exclusive interview. "It expresses the most poetic and also the most surreal side of the brand, where the identities are whispered rather than declared."
From this initial contrast sprang a through line of duality that had the designer and fourth-generation scion of the Roman family name envision pairings that included her desire to make the precision of craftsmanship to be palpable while honoring "those invisible hands behind the visible beauty"; the Eternal City's ability to "choreograph elegance" and stage beauty, and "Roman strength and feminine complexity."
The 1954 "Eaux d'Artifice" experimental short film by American avant garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, which sees a mysterious feminine figure stroll in the fountain-filled gardens of the 16th-century Villa d'Este near Rome , became the main inspiration guiding Delettrez Fendi.
"This movie has been sitting in the back of my brain since always," she said. "Every time I thought about illusion, about perspective, and the play on perspective I [thought] about that movie."
"I wanted to capture the strength inside of soft lines," she continued. "And I was also thinking about inheritance in general; how water, just like my name, somehow flows from one generation to the next."
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