Fendi: Spring 2007 Ready-to-Wear

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We're doing stick straight hair with a middle part

and it's kind of inspired by Penelope Tree.

And it should kind of stay clean and fresh

and have movement on the runway.

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We wanted just the girls to look really great

and natural, and super minimal.

Very sheer, fresh, clean skin.

So we're hardly using any makeup. [laughs]

♪ Nine to five, for service and devotion ♪

♪ You would think that I would deserve a fat promotion ♪

♪ Want to move ahead but the boss won't seem to let me ♪

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♪ Wake up in the morning with a head like what ya done? ♪

[Interviewer] With Karl Lagerfeld's prodigious workload,

it's impressive the way he manages to inject

the distinct personality into each of the labels he designs.

I would say he personality of Fendi

is this interesting marriage between extreme craftsmanship

and absolute technique,

and a, sort of, futuristic concept.

♪ You better know when you're swingin' 'round the room ♪

Here at Fendi, the use of technologically

highly-evolved elegant fabrics

and the depth of knowledge, the rostrum of the expertise

of the House of Fendi,

that marriage is great.

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♪ Cities come and cities go just like the old empires ♪

♪ When all you do is change your clothes ♪

♪ And call that versatile ♪

♪ You got so many colors make a blind man so confused ♪

♪ Then why can't I keep up ♪

♪ When you're the only thing I lose? ♪

♪ So I'll just pretend that I know which way to bend ♪

It felt to me like there was a strong Industrial element

in that collectsion-- On purpose.

I wanted that.

I like the idea of the craft and the knowledge

of a House like Fendi, with all of it.

But to use material that normally we're not supposed to use

or didn't use in the past.

It's to make a better future

with a large element of the past.

♪ You better know when you're swingin' 'round the room ♪

♪ Looks like magic's solely yours tonight ♪

♪ But I don't feel like dancin' when the old Joanna plays ♪

♪ My heart could take a chance ♪

I like the clothes.

They're always very inventing.

Very new, very different shapes.

And it's always very good energy.

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When we just looked at Fendi now

we saw a lot of the key influences

that've we've been seeing throughout the season actually.

I think a lot of the 60s details.

Certainly a lot of the patent leathers.

Purse specs as well.

A lot of great detail, actually.

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I think it's a very genius start

because in this show you have all the attendance

of the next season in one show.

So, you find everything you want to find

for next season, you know?

So silver was there.

This sort of, I don't know what you call it,

plastic, you know?

Silicon.

Silicon was there.

A touch of floral was there.

Some Italy concert bags.

I think every piece was a white plant.

Bustier, I think you get everything white, you know?

[Interviewer] Karl Lagerfeld guarantees that a Fendi show

is never gonna be less than fascinating.

First of all there's the heritage

of the old Roman house of Fendi itself.

And then there's the way he uses the past and the present

to point forward to the future.

It's a very interesting melange.

♪ They just use your mind and they never give you credit ♪

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