{"id":69439,"date":"2026-02-26T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=272804"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:54:57","slug":"fendi-fall-winter-2026-maria-grazia-chiuri","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/fendi-fall-winter-2026-maria-grazia-chiuri\/","title":{"rendered":"MFW: At Fendi, Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Era Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For her first collection at Fendi, Maria Grazia Chiuri<\/a> did not opt for a spectacle. Instead, she chose a sentence: Less I, more us.<\/em><\/p>\n

After nine years at Dior<\/a>\u2014and some 37 years after she first walked into Fendi\u2019s Rome headquarters as a young accessories designer\u2014Chiuri\u2019s return<\/a> arrives as a full-circle moment. Her Fall\/Winter 2026 debut echoed the collaborative spirit of the five Fendi sisters, its founders.<\/p>\n

The collection unfolded as a true fusion of codes. Sheer lace gowns and silk slips\u2014signatures of Ms Chiuri\u2014skimmed the body with tactile directness, while deconstructed tailoring and relaxed, everyday separates introduced a note of pragmatic resolve. While some might’ve expected a grand gesture, Chiuri’s commitment to making wearable clothes that fit seamlessly into one’s wardrobe continues on at Fendi.<\/p>\n

The designer also reasserted her long-standing dialogue between fashion and art. A collaboration with the late Italian visual poet Mirella Bentivoglio\u2014developed with the Archivio Mirella Bentivoglio\u2014brought limited-edition jewellery conceived in the 1970s into the present. Bentivoglio\u2019s conceptual rings and earrings, rooted in wordplay and semantic subversion, appeared as wearable signs. Clothing, too, carried fragments of language, with phrases like Olt3<\/em> and Senza senso <\/em>transforming garments into what Bentivoglio once described as \u201cverbal objects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthering the collective spirit, Chiuri enlisted SAGG Napoli<\/a>\u2014who she tapped for a performance during the Dior Spring\/Summer 2025<\/a> runway\u2014once again, creating slogan tees and football scarves that read: \u201cRooted but not stuck\u201d and \u201cLoyal but not obedient\u201d, proposing balance over submission.<\/p>\n

Accessories, naturally, held pride of place. Not only for Fendi’s history of bag craftsmanship, but also as a discreet nod to Chiuri\u2019s own beginnings at the House in 1989. Baguettes of varied iterations swung nonchalantly at the hip, while lapel-grazing necklaces punctuated tailoring with graphic intent.<\/p>\n

Underlying it all was a meditation on emotional durability: garments remodelled and reimagined as archives of memory rather than seasonal novelties. In an era addicted to immediacy, where era-specific codes are adopted over and over again for empty nostalgia, Chiuri\u2019s debut offers something steadier. Less ego, more exchange. Though some whinced at the paucity of colour on the runway, its messaging felt clear enough. For Fendi\u2019s new chapter, Chiuri isn\u2019t rewriting the House\u2019s history, but widening the conversation.<\/p>\n

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