Artisanship Tag

“FF could easily be ‘Fendi Firenze,’” said Silvia Venturini Fendi a couple of days ahead of the posh brand’s show at its factory in Capannuccia, Bagno a Ripoli, a 30-minute drive from Florence as this season’s Pitti Uomo special guest. The reference to Florence is powerful, said the Fendi scion and accessories and menswear artistic director. She revealed that her grandmother, Adele Fendi, founded the home in 1925 in Rome but that a couple of years earlier she had learned the craft from cousins who were leather goods artisans within the Tuscan city. “We're about to have fun our centennial and so it’s inevitable to reflect on what’s been done, and likewise by way of transparency, which I believe goes to be...