Kate Moss at Charleston, Wearing Kim Jones Fendi Couture Lensed by Mert & Marcus 2021

Update: The Guardian Fashion 8/12/23 tells readers how to get the Bloomsbury set’s Charleston vibe in their own homes, linking into Anne of Carversville’s 2021 feature “Kate Moss at Charleston, Wearing Kim Jones Fendi Couture Lensed by Mert & Marcus”.

Kim Jones Fendi Couture Debut

Supermodel Kate Moss previews her friend Dior Men’s designer Kim Jones’ debut couture collection as artistic director for Fendi Womenswear. The name ‘Pioneering Women’ (definitely NOT American pioneer women), is inspired by the women of Britain’s Bloomsbury Group.

In these images by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Kate showcases Jones’ first Fendi collection statement, styled by Edward Enninful at Charleston, the legendary artistic set’s Sussex home. Kate and Jones go way back to the ‘90s when Alexander McQueen introduced them.

For Bloomsbury Group: All Roads Led to Rome

Olivia Singer interviews Kim Jones in Sussex, where he bought a holiday home in the village of Rodmell. The house is close to his childhood roots and a few doors down from the legendary 20th century writer Virginia Woolf’s cottage”.

“As a teenager, I spent a lot of time cycling round all these villages,” Jones tells Singer. “This first collection feels almost autobiographical. What I’m referencing feels really personal.”

The designer is quick to underscore the tremendous synergy that existed between the Bloomsbury Group and the Italians. Jones “pulls out a catalogue of Vanessa Bell’s paintings, which flit between Sussex farmland and the Borghese gardens in Rome; Woolf was also entranced by the “infinite silence” of Perugino’s frescoes.”

“And if you look in the Charleston library, or at Clive Bell’s book collection, it’s all there. All roads lead to Rome.” Jones says to underscore his point.

Kate Moss Fendi Accessories Consultant

“It was logical. She has such immaculate taste – she’s seen everything, and her knowledge of fashion is so vast,” says Jones about Kate Moss, who is consulting on accessories for Fendi. Moss will be working with Silvia Venturini Fendi’s daughter Delfina Delettrez Fendi, whose eponymous jewelry brand has thrived for more than a decade before her taking responsibility for Fendi’s jewelry.

“I want to respect Silvia, and to think about the legacy of the house. Fendi is about them: about strong women, intelligent women, who know what they’re doing in their lives. Pioneering women, like the Bloomsbury women, like the women in the show. This is a statement: one to celebrate Fendi, and the stories of all of these amazing women.”

Read on with richly-informative article at British Vogue.