Captured on celluloid by Luchino Visconti, Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson, Fendi has collaborated extensively with filmmakers since the early 1970s. Celebrating this cinematic alliance, and coinciding with today’s opening of Fendi’s new boutique in Milan, the exhibition Making Dreams: Fendi and the Cinema will be unveiled this Saturday within the opulent surroundings of the Mario Cavallè-designed Cinema Manzoni. Featuring today’s short Amphitheatre, a visual salute of Rome’s legendary Cinecittà studios, the grand show is curated by the multidisciplinary creative directors, Patrick Kinmonth and Antonio Monfreda. “As a little girl, film screenings were events in their own right,” remembers Director of the Italian luxury fashion house Silvia Venturini Fendi of her personal connection to film. “The cinema would enter our house and the whole event would be met with a religious silence.” In part examining the costuming of several seminal films in which Fendi has played a key role, including James Bond caper Never Say Never Again (1983), Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence (1993) and Luca Guadagnino’s I am Love (2009), the show opens ahead of the restoration of Visconti’s award-winning 1974 release Gruppo di famiglia in un Interno (Conversation Piece) and a book on the film by Rizzoli.

Making Dreams: Fendi and the Cinema runs at the Cinema Manzoni from September 21 through October 6.
Find more information on the exhibition here.