Versace and Fendi Debut Their Anticipated Collaboration With a Star-Studded Runway Event
It was a Versailles-level battle of the logos. After a few days of not-so-quiet whispers of a surprise collaboration, Versace and Fendi finally debuted their much-anticipated collaboration with a dual runway show that closed out Milan Fashion Week — and a spring ’22 season full of color, sex appeal and joie de vivre. Unlike Gucci’s Balenciaga collaboration last season (which saw Balenciaga logos and motifs infiltrate Gucci’s Aria collection), this meeting of the design minds (dubbed “Fendace,” of course) consisted of not one but two collections; one “Versace by Fendi” from Fendi’s Silvia Venturini Fendi and Kim Jones, another “Fendi by Versace” curation by Versace creative director Donatella Versace. One other key difference: Instead of a sister brand collaboration (both Gucci and Balenciaga are owned by the Kering Group, Sunday’s event was a distinctive coming together of two very separate competitor fashion empires, and ones in which family members are still active in their respe