“There’s a sense of family that is not only pinned to lineage and history but also extends to the people you work with. If you think about Fendi’s very long relationship – 54 years – with Karl Lagerfeld, for instance, it is more than a familial bond, it is a life together.”
Silvia Venturini Fendi
From 1946, founders Adele and Edoardo Fendi were joined in running the company by their five daughters – Carla, Paola, Franca, Alda and Anna – who hired, in 1965, the House’s first Artistic Director, Karl Lagerfeld.
Sketch: The Fendi sisters, the “empresses of Rome,” by Karl Lagerfeld, 1989.