Skims and Fendi: With Kim in mind

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Katy Perry sings "All You Need Is Love" for a Christmas campaign for the Gap brand - when it comes to collaborations in fashion and music, you won't be surprised about anything anymore.

Maybe even more: Fendi works with Skims.

Fendi?

The ones from Rome, the ones with the fur fashion?

With skims, this brand with the flattering, tight shapewear by Kim Kardashian?

Cooperation for the time of strange constellations

Alfons Kaiser

Responsible editor for the section “Germany and the World” and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin.

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Yes, exactly.

In times when even the FDP is negotiating a coalition with the Greens, anything is apparently possible with strange combinations.

With Kim Jones, the creative director of Fendi women's fashion, anyway.

If you will, he himself is one single

that has been lived 

Because the British designer, who teamed up with the American designer-actress, has not only been working at Fendi for a year, as the successor to the late Karl Lagerfeld. He has also been Dior's men's fashion designer for a good three years. And because the self-confident designer of a brand likes to put his stamp on, the men's fashion division of the Parisian brand has been called Dior Homme since 2018, but Dior Men.Men for Dior in Paris, women for Fendi in Rome: for the Londoner, such crossover combinations are

He has already shown that in a previous job. As the designer of the Louis Vuitton men's collections, he worked with the trendy streetwear brand Supreme. At Dior Men he teamed up with the American artists Kaws and Daniel Arsham, the Scottish painter Peter Doig and the rap musician Travis Scott.

So Kim quickly came to Kim's mind.

It happened at one of his first meetings at Fendi.

Kim Jones sat together with his team, including Silvia Venturini Fendi from the third generation of the founding family, who are mainly responsible for accessories and men's fashion, and their daughter Delfina Delettrez Fendi, who is responsible for the brand's jewelry.

When they were talking at the table in Rome, Jones said in conversation, all the women suddenly fell silent and looked at their cell phones.

What happened?

They were eagerly awaiting the digitally broadcast premiere of a new skims collection.

His logical thought: maybe we should do something with her?

"I also have a girlfriend who is an accountant"

Kim Kardashian West and Kim Jones: That fits not only because of the common first name.

This also fits because Kim Jones is a child of the celebrity age.

Demi Moore and Kate Moss also walk his catwalks, and after the shows he can be portrayed with David Beckham or Naomi Campbell.

“I'm not doing that because they're prominent,” he asserts.

“I've just known her for a long time, that's natural.

I also have a friend who is an accountant. "