Fendi
A Roman house born of fur and leather craft — home of the FF monogram and the Baguette.
Rome, 1925. A workshop
before it was a house.
Fendi was founded in Rome in 1925 by Edoardo and Adele Fendi, as a fur and leather workshop with a small boutique. It grew into a family house run across generations by their five daughters. In 1965 Karl Lagerfeld joined as designer and stayed for over five decades — an extraordinarily long creative partnership — reinventing fur as a modern material and creating the interlocking double-F “FF” Zucca motif.
In 1997 Silvia Venturini Fendi designed the Baguette, one of the first “It” bags and a piece that helped define the modern handbag economy. Fendi became part of the LVMH group in 2001. Through every change it has kept its Roman identity and its origin in worked skins and fur.
The marks of the house.
- 01The FF ZuccaThe interlocking double-F motif devised by Lagerfeld in 1965 — one of fashion’s most recognised monograms.
- 02Fur, reinventedA house built on fur craft, treating pelts with techniques closer to couture than to outerwear.
- 03The BaguetteSilvia Venturini Fendi’s 1997 bag — compact, worn under the arm like its namesake, and endlessly reissued.
- 04Roman leatherSelleria hand-stitched leather goods, saddle-stitched in the Roman artisan tradition.
"A house that began at the workbench never quite forgets the hand — you feel it in the seams."— Anemoia Vestiaire, on Fendi
Fur, leather, and the hand.
Fendi is best understood through the materials it was built on. Our notes on fur and leather set out how to read quality, construction and condition in exactly these pieces.
We assess each Fendi piece on the cloth, the skins, the hardware and the honest condition — and we describe precisely what the garment and its markings show.
We make no claim of certification, exact dating, or provenance beyond what the piece itself carries.
Full measurements and condition are on each product page. Where maker labelling or hardware stamps are present, we record them as found and leave verification to you.Why vintage Fendi
is sought after.
Fendi’s fur and leather work, and its Lagerfeld-era pieces, are collected for craft that is expensive to reproduce today. Well-kept examples carry construction and materials that reward close inspection — and they have already lasted.
Vintage is often the way to own the house at its most characterful. We present what we have honestly, condition described plainly.