Of all of the fraught problems in fashion (and believe me, there are plenty), fur is most likely one of the most fraught. It has both ardent defenders as well as detractors, however mostly, high-end consumers are somewhere in the middle, just like yours truly – conscious of the honest problems with using fur, as well as not necessarily a fur customer, however likewise not constitutionally opposed to someday ending up being a fur customer, were the right piece to cross our paths. For Fendi autumn 2013, it seems as though Karl Lagerfeld’s entire goal was to tempt those of us in the murky middle.
As much as Lagerfeld is revered as well as admired for his work at Chanel, his Fendi collections always pleasure me in a method that few others do. This season, he’s taken fur in the modern, technical direction that the brand has been going for a number of seasons now, to excellent effect. the very best bags (many of which are in the resurgent Peekaboo shape) are in short-shorn furs not much fluffier than calf hair that adds an enormous amount of structure without overwhelming the bag’s structure, which is a issue with so many handbags when re-imagined in fur. That Fendi 2Jours carry you see above? That’s the bag that might make me switch teams. If you’re not prepared for full fur, the collection was likewise full of fuzzy baubles, bag appeals as well as doodads for the accent-inclined.
[Photos via Vogue]