For SS25, Silvia Venturini Fendi opened up the gilded gates of the Fendi Club for a tour around the manicured lawns. Inspired by ideas of uniform, both for work and for play, Venturini Fendi based her latest collection around the wardrobe of the humble country club – the crisp, pleated whites of golf caddies and the garish plaids of plus fours. But don’t worry, no plus fours made an appearance on this runway. Instead, Venturini Fendi took the colourways and patterns of country club chic and elevated them through Fendi’s crisp and tailored house codes. The result was a brave runway.

Look #1 is an outfit that requires a moment of deconstruction. In lesser hands, the green and yellow plaid of the trousers and the green stripes of the tie would look ridiculous. Two patterns on one outfit? It breaks a basic rule of styling. Yet, the darker green of the tie is actually the exact same shade as the plaid of the trouser, creating a very subtle symbiosis between the garments. It should not work and yet it does. See also Look #8, the banana yellow of the tie and bag actually complement the (again, brave) yellow stripe running through the plaid of the blazer.

A recurring motif throughout the collection were billowing collars that were worn in the style of off-the-shoulder necklines, a silhouette that is rarely seen in menswear, such as in Look #27 and Look #30. Could this lead to a shoulders out for the lads movement? We’ll have to wait and see. Venturini Fendi also had a lot of fun with manipulating the plackets of shirts, which is very reminiscent of early 00s Vivienne Westwood MAN, so that they curved away under the armpit.

The collection’s shoes mostly consisted of slip-on flats and lug-soled mules, rendered in patent leathers and following the colourways of the outfits — lots of greens, browns and blacks. The go-to accessory had to be teeny tiny clutch, as seen in Look #56. Who knows what could actually fit into it but who cares! It’s so cute.