{"id":8050,"date":"2020-12-08T06:35:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=182184"},"modified":"2020-12-08T23:10:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:10:01","slug":"work-of-art-the-fendi-baguette","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/work-of-art-the-fendi-baguette\/","title":{"rendered":"Work of Art: The Fendi Baguette"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_182185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182185\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-182185 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/FI-Fendi-by-Zhenya-Z-for-GRAZIA-INTERNATIONAL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1448\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ill-paris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zhenya<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to pinpoint the factors that turn a <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/fendi-peekaboo-bag\/\">regular handbag into an icon<\/a>, but few styles have done more to earn the moniker than the Fendi Baguette. Designed by Silvia Venturini Fendi back in 1997, the rectangular top-handle design quickly became a defining piece of the 90s, dubbed the &#8216;Baguette&#8217; because it was designed to be tucked underneath the arm like a Parisian leaving the <em>boulangerie<\/em>. Many go so far as to argue that that the Baguette&#8217;s immediate, unparalleled cult appeal made it the first true &#8220;It&#8221; bag, a fact immortalized by <em>Sex and The City<\/em>, when Carrie Bradshaw adamantly declared &#8220;<em>This isn&#8217;t a bag, it&#8217;s a Baguette.&#8221;<\/em> Now, more than two decades on, and the Baguette continues to tantalize the world&#8217;s most stylish women, from Kate Moss to Zo\u00eb Kravitz and Gigi Hadid. Updated for the new generation in candy-colored hues like bubblegum pink and seafoam green, owning the Fendi Baguette is to own a piece of fashion history.<\/p>\n<p>This is Fendi&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/collections\/work-of-art\/\">work of art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-181763 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/FendiWOABag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"796\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"product-style\">BAGUETTE HANDBAG, FENDI, <a href=\"http:\/\/fendi.com\/it\/borse-donna\/baguette-8bs017a72vf19w7\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SHOP NOW <\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26240,"featured_media":8160,"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>Work of 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