Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Fendi Debut at Milan Fashion Week Fall 2026

Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Fendi Debut at Milan Fashion Week Fall 2026

We all have a long-lost friend we like to romanticize from a safe distance. The one you swear you’ll reach out to again, just not today. Or this decade. Don’t worry though, at Fendi, it took 37 years. And the reunion succeeded, though not over coffee, this one unfolded on a Milanese runway. The friend, of course, is Maria Grazia Chiuri. @mariagraziachiuri via Instagram After graduating from Rome’s Istituto Europeo di Design, 1989 rolled around a…

Chiuri On Her Fendi Debut: “It’s About Time We Mentioned Someone Else Besides Karl Lagerfeld”

Fashion loves nothing more than a debut. And the key one from LVMH was in Milan last week, with Maria Grazia Chiuri now at the helm of Fendi. Probably the most important feminist designer working today, Chiuri is known for working with female artists, craftspeople, and collaborators, and prized for turning the brands she leads into commercial hits. In 2008, she and Pierpaolo Piccioli took over at Valentino, growing the business threefold in just…