This week has certainly been rather newsworthy for the LVMH empire. Raf Simons’ sudden departure from Dior has certainly left the ground uneasy, however on a more positive and exciting note, one of the portfolio’s most underrated houses Fendi opened its new headquarters at the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome – first designed in 1937 by architects Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Bruno La Padula and Mario Romano.
Fendi’s 450+ staff have actually already been working at the new headquarters for some months now, but it was this week that the official unveil took place along with the opening of the exhibition “Una Nuova Roma. L’Eur e il Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana” starting October 23rd 2015 until March 7th 2016 to celebrate its inauguration.
The exhibition has a strong focus on Italian artwork and has also imported paintings, on loan from New York’s MoMA. Photographers featured include Karl Lagerfeld, Gabriele Basilico, Fabrizio Ferri, Franco Fontana, Andrea Jemolo, Mimmo Jodice, Giulio Pediconi and Hans Christian Schink – and film extracts from Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Petri, Bernardo Bertolucci.
The photographs above and below of the new Fendi headquarters are all shot by Karl Lagerfeld, of course.
