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‘She was an incredible feminist’: Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Fendi collection inspired by Italian pop legend

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Milan show full of diaphanous dresses and visible bras celebrates 1970s sensation Raffaella Carrà Maria Grazia Chiuri has been having more fun with clothes since she decamped from Paris back to her native Rome to work at Fendi. “I have less of a uniform these days. I think it is because being back here makes me feel young again.

Milan show full of diaphanous dresses and visible bras celebrates 1970s sensation Raffaella Carrà

Maria Grazia Chiuri has been having more fun with clothes since she decamped from Paris back to her native Rome to work at Fendi. “I have less of a uniform these days. I think it is because being back here makes me feel young again. I’m not sure my daughter appreciates [this attitude]! But I don’t care,” she said at a preview before her Milan fashion week show.

Not that Chiuri doesn’t approach her work as a designer seriously. She described her second ready-to-wear season at Fendi not as a show, or a collection, but as “the second part of the project I am working on for them”.

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