FENDI EXIT: Fendi‘s longtime chief communication officer Cristiana Monfardini is exiting the Rome-based home, WWD has discovered.
“After 20 unparalleled years, I’ve determined it was the precise time for me to maneuver on from my position […] to pursue new pursuits,” wrote Monfardini in an inner memo seen by WWD. “I lengthen my deepest gratitude to LVMH, Silvia Venturini Fendi and the maison for this extraordinary journey, a time full of iconic and unforgettable reminiscences I’ll without end cherish. My honest thanks go to my crew for what we’ve got completed collectively. I want [CEO] Ramon [Ros] and Fendi the easiest of their subsequent chapter.”
Earlier than becoming a member of Fendi, Monfardini labored with Gianni Versace, the place she began her profession in 1994, adopted by Dolce & Gabbana, Escada in Munich and Paris, and Moschino.
She has been answerable for the communication of a few of Fendi’s primary occasions, starting from the style present on the Nice Wall of China in 2007 for the spring 2008 assortment designed by Karl Lagerfeld and Venturini Fendi below the lead of then-chief govt officer Michael Burke, to the 2016 present on the Trevi Fountain marking Fendi’s ninetieth anniversary below then-CEO Pietro Beccari. She constructed relationships with a number of Fendi model ambassadors, from Stray Youngsters’ Bang Chan, Nicholas Galitzine and Zhang Ruoyun to South Korean actress Tune Hye-kyo, to call a number of. Amongst her duties, she additionally conceived the F is For platform devoted to and created by Millennials.
Monfardini exits Fendi, which is managed by LVMH, at a time of main adjustments. Ros was beforehand president and CEO of Louis Vuitton, Mainland China, and joined Fendi in July, succeeding Pierre-Emmanuel Angeloglou.
Maria Grazia Chiuri, after exiting Dior in Could, was appointed chief artistic officer of Fendi in October and her first womenswear assortment will probably be proven in Milan subsequent February. This will probably be adopted by menswear in June and couture in July, pointing to a departure from the previous, as Chiuri is answerable for all divisions.
On the finish of September, Silvia Venturini Fendi was named honorary president. Since 1994 she had been answerable for the equipment and menswear traces. In the course of the centenary of the home this 12 months, she was additionally tasked with the design of the ladies’s collections after Kim Jones in October 2024 exited his place as Fendi’s inventive director of high fashion, ready-to-wear and fur collections for ladies.
