{"id":216,"date":"2020-09-09T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=177221"},"modified":"2020-10-14T18:08:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T18:08:19","slug":"kim-jones-fendi","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kim-jones-fendi\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Kim Jones Is Fendi&#8217;s New Womenswear Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If 2020 couldn&#8217;t throw us yet another curveball, fashion&#8217;s latest appointment has done just that. <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/breaking-raf-simons-is-at-prada\/\">Following the history-making news earlier in the year that Raf Simons was joining Prada&#8217;s Miuccia Prada to co-design<\/a>, now we have another major design coup: Kim Jones is the new Artistic Director of Fendi.<\/p>\n<p>Joining third-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/from-fringe-benefits-to-belt-charms-all-the-style-learnings-from-milan-fashion-week\/\">Fendi<\/a> matriarch Silvia Venturini Fendi, who will continue to create the accessories and menswear collections, Jones will oversee the haute couture, ready-to-wear and fur collections for women.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_177223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177223\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-177223 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kim-Jones_\u00a9Brett_Lloyd-Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"kim jones fendi\" width=\"514\" height=\"289\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: \u00a9 @Brett_Lloyd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Perhaps most interestingly, however, is that he will retain his role at Dior; continuing his post as Artistic Director of Dior Men, bestriding both luxury LVMH houses (talk about a busy schedule).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/that-fendi-70s-show-fendi-spring-summer-2020-is-the-best-trip-down-memory-lane\/\"><span class=\"price-style\">READ: THAT \u201970S FENDI SHOW. FENDI SPRING SUMMER 2020 IS THE BEST KIND OF TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to profoundly thank Monsieur Arnault, Pietro Beccari, Serge Brunschwig and Silvia Venturini Fendi for this incredible opportunity,&#8221; Jones said in an official statement. &#8220;Working across two such prestigious houses is a true honor as a designer and to be able to join the house of Fendi as well as continuing my work at Dior Men\u2019s is a huge privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_177231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177231\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-177231 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GettyImages-1207696630.jpg\" alt=\"kim jones fendi\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MILAN, ITALY &#8211; FEBRUARY 20: Bella Hadid walks the runway during the Fendi Ready to Wear Fall\/Winter 2020-2021 fashion show as part of Milan Fashion Week on February 20, 2020 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But according to LVMH Chairman, Bernard Arnault, and Serge Brunschwig, Fendi&#8217;s Chairman and CEO, the privilege is all theirs. \u201cI am thrilled to welcome Kim Jones at Fendi. Kim is one of the most talented and relevant designers of today,&#8221; Brunschwig enthused. &#8220;With Silvia Venturini Fendi, who has virtuously carried on Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld legacy, Kim will bring his contemporary one of a kind point of view into the world of Fendi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"price-style\"><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/fendi-peekaboo-bag\/\">WORK OF ART: TAKE A PEEK AT FENDI\u2019S PEEKABOO BAG<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Mrs. Fendi is equally thrilled with her new colleague. \u201cMy warmest welcome to Kim, to whom I am bound by deep respect and friendship. I am looking forward to take the Fendi universe to the next level with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"product-style\">Kim Jones will present his first Fendi ready-to-wear collection for Fall\/Winter 2021-22 season during Milan Fashion Week in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-177224 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":217,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[17,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Breaking: Kim Jones Is Fendi&#039;s New Womenswear Designer - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"But, he&#039;s not leaving Dior...Kim Jones will creatively oversee both houses, Artistic Director at Fendi Women and Dior Men\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kim-jones-fendi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Breaking: Kim Jones Is Fendi&#039;s New Womenswear Designer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"But, he&#039;s not leaving Dior...Kim Jones will creatively oversee both houses, Artistic Director at Fendi Women and Dior Men\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kim-jones-fendi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Grazia USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-14T18:08:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/09\/Kim-Jones_\u00a9Brett_Lloyd-Cropped.jpg?fit=514%2C289\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"514\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"289\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kim-jones-fendi\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kim-jones-fendi\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chrisanthi Kaliviotis\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/fd7ec19126c93b923eb0c148f5d8c813\"},\"headline\":\"Breaking: Kim Jones Is Fendi&#8217;s New Womenswear Designer\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-09T07:28:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-14T18:08:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kim-jones-fendi\/\"},\"wordCount\":406,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Fashion\",\"News Feed\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kim-jones-fendi\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kim-jones-fendi\/\",\"name\":\"Breaking: Kim Jones Is Fendi's New Womenswear Designer - 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