Yesterday in Milan, Fendi showed an astounding collection of Italian scientist chic. Fendi’s women travelled faster than the speed of fashion: dresses buttoned strictly down the front, tailored jackets with the crisp air of an ironed lab coat, and stripes and circles and fabrics embroidered like graph paper. Supermodels emerged from under a massive, monogrammed protractor – “I’m going to be walking down the runway,” explained Anja Rubik, “and doing my counting” – in academic combinations of smart style and seductive glamour. All the while, a playful take on the nutty professor came across in Charlotte’s choices: back-combed mad scientist bouffants, gold-encrusted eyelids, and colourful, huge sunnies with an air of the protective visor. In Olivier Zahm’s opinion, it had “the feeling of a super chic woman… You want to spend a weekend with this woman, and take her out of the laboratory!”
Text: Dean Kissick
Photography: Mitchell Sams
