Fendi Brought Y2K Fashion to a Luxury Level For its Spring Summer 2023 Women’s Collection
Cargo pants. Navel-baring knit cardigans. Fuzzy sweaters. Slinky slide platforms. These pieces were staples of Y2K fashion and now on constant rotation as the era’s style revival continues dominate today’s fashion. So far, the spring ’23 collections indicate that the macro fashion trend shows no signs of slowing down. And while there are already plenty of mid-market and high street interpretations of the Y2K revival, Fendi’s latest collection shows what the trend can look like when it’s done at a luxury level. For its spring summer ’23 women’s line, which showed Wednesday at Milan Fashion Week, Fendi womenswear artistic director Kim Jones sent out a parade of models in cargo pants. But these pants were not the parachutes seen on every Gen-Z’er this summer. Done in a swingy luxe silk-satin in sage green or bright apple, or a perforated cream carmel leather with double F logo buckles accenting the straps of the cargo pockets, the pants offered a new-old silhouette to a luxury wardrobe