Ornella Muti for the 90th anniversary of Fendi

Cinema Archive Furs Collection

photography by OLIVIER ZAHM
style by VALERIA MARCHETTI
text by ANGELO FLACCAVENTO

Fendi, like the fountains, churches, and beautiful trees, is an integral part of Rome. The house of Silvia Venturini Fendi celebrated its 90th birthday this July with unprecedented magic. Models wearing Karl Lagerfeld’s “Legends and Fairy Tales” Haute Fourrure collection walked a transparent catwalk across the newly restored Trevi Fountain. To celebrate Lagerfeld’s long creative alliance with Fendi, we photographed iconic Italian actress Ornella Mutti at the 18th century botanical garden wearing furs from Fendi’s vast archive of pieces made for films.

<img class="size-medium wp-image-217412" src="https://static.purple.fr/2016/10/Rome-Ornella-Muti-92130-18-300×246.jpg" (2004) Fendi with a triple pearl ring Delfina Delettrez

Ornella Muti is a sphinx: cat-eyed and enigmatic. A wonderfully feline incarnation of uninhibited, slightly perverse femininity, she became a sex symbol, or an embodiment of desire, for several generations of Italians, when things…