FASHION MAIL: Fendi is marking its 100-year milestone with its personal stamp.
The Italian Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy is releasing a stamp to have a good time the one hundredth anniversary of the Italian luxurious home.
The stamp belongs to the thematic sequence “Excellence of the manufacturing and financial system,” devoted to Italian manufacturers on their centenary. Equally, one was made for Gucci in 2021.
The stamp includes a reinterpretation of the Fendi Roma emblem crafted for this special day. The primary and the infinity image within the model’s signature yellow coloration are positioned on a backdrop with an FF emblem created by Karl Lagerfeld. The story of this emblem, which stands for “Enjoyable Furs,” traces again to 1965 when the designer was appointed as artistic director of the model by the 5 Fendi sisters: Paola, Anna, Franca, Carla and Alda, daughters of the maison’s founders, Adele and Edoardo Fendi.
The stamp is included inside a collectible four-flap and a philatelic A4 folder. It additionally comes with a textual content in regards to the model’s historical past signed by Silvia Venturini Fendi, creative director of equipment and menswear, and created advert hoc within the signature yellow coloration.
“Stepping by means of the doorways of Fendi looks like coming into a vortex of custom and modernity that continues to resonate, particularly right this moment, because the model celebrates its one hundredth anniversary. For a century, the home has amazed with its duality, combining the fantastic thing about Rome with a forward-looking imaginative and prescient,” mentioned the letter penned by Venturini Fendi included with the stamp.
“Based in Rome in 1925 by Adele and Edoardo Fendi, Fendi blossomed from a small, artisanal fur and leather-based workshop into a world luxurious home. From the matriarch founder to the 5 legendary Fendi sisters — Paola, Anna, Franca, Carla and Alda — who conquered the world from the Nineteen Forties, ranging from Rome, to the arrival of Karl Lagerfeld in 1965, the German trend emperor with a boundless imaginative and prescient, Fendi’s journey is a story of a selected household, constructed on deep connections and values handed down by means of generations,” the designer continued. “The unique signature with the FF emblem, standing for ‘Enjoyable Furs.’ The primary trend exhibits, the love affair with the cinema, Silvia Venturini Fendi‘s creation of the Baguette and Peekaboo luggage. The start of a brand new period with the arrival of LVMH in 2000, the spectacular exhibits on the Nice Wall of China and the Trevi Fountain, and the monumental headquarters at Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome. Fendi’s story is one among daring creativity, seeking to the longer term whereas honoring the previous.”
Contained in the folder there’s a block of 4 stamps, a stamped and cancelled philatelic postcard, a first-day envelope, and a philatelic card. All of the merchandise will probably be accessible at Italy’s postal service supplier Poste Italiane places of work, on the supplier’s web site and at 10 chosen philatelic areas situated within the heart of the primary Italian cities, on-line at filatelia.poste.it and for subscribers.
