Fantastic Fur

Fuzzy feelings via Karl Lagerfeld’s Haute Fourrure Collection for Fendi.

- Akshita Nahar Jain

In 1965, the five Fendi sisters recruited a young designer, Karl Lagerfeld, to join the family-run luxury house. Half a decade later, the iconoclast designer has been instrumental in transforming the bourgeois fur into a fabric of fantasy and fun. Case in point, Fendi’s third Haute Fourrure collection that debuted at Theatre des Champs- Elysees, Paris, in July this year. A beautiful mélange of Impressionist artworks infused with the vivacity of Russian ballet, the collection was a delightful garden of roses, irises, daisies, and poppies captured in shaved mink, appliqué, and feather. Three-dimensional flowers, spring hues, and a clever mixing of fabrics—velvet, lace, organza, and metallic jacquard—all contributed to creating a verdant garden that lies beyond your wildest botanical imaginations. From bouquet-like baske