Tennis, Anyone?
There was hardly any breathing room in the front row at Fendi — literally, as Chiara Ferragni nuzzled her husband, rapper Fedez, unfazed by the crowds of photographers angling at them. Ditto for Nicki Minaj, who was sitting on the other side of the runway unfazed by the paparazzi frenzy. Wearing pieces from the Fendi Mania capsule collection based on the Fendi/Fila logo created by Instagram artist @hey_reilly were Barbara Becker, Boris Becker's first wife, and Emily McEnroe, daughter of John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal. The two caught up backstage. ”I was especially surprised to see her again, because I saw her when she was a baby, but now that I see her like this I had to doublecheck,” Becker said. Asked about wearing the Fendi/Fila looks nodding to Fila's storied tennis tradition, Becker said that because she had “known Fila for long, long time, it's very easy to understand the collaboration. For me it makes a lot of sense.”
Of the capsule, McEnroe said “it can be dressed up or down, it's exciting.” Becker said she had a few projects coming up with her wallpaper collection but she highlighted the fact that she was “an empty nester,” since a day earlier. “I brought my youngest, Elias, into college. He got into London. But my other son lives in Berlin, so this is not new.”
— LUISA ZARGANI ankle boots from Gucci, Gucci backpack, Hermès silk scarf and Delfina Delettrez engagement ring. Of that last piece, Amoruso said in a prepared statement that the ring is “gorgeous but no longer has a place in my life.”
Amoruso, who founded online retailer Nasty Gal and more recently started the digital media firm Girlboss, originally launched Nasty Gal as an eBay shop selling vintage. The endeavor was born out of her own love for vintage.
“Vintage has history. It's mysterious. It has character. It's sustainable. It can be very cheap,” Amoruso went on to say in a statement. “And it takes a good hunt to find it, so wearing a great piece of vintage has always given me a sense of pride. It's something that's much harder to curate than curating from, say, a trade show. I have stopped wearing as much vintage because, as they say, ‘Don't get high from your own supply.'”
Amoruso's Basic Space offering joins pieces from other sellers on the app, such as
LPA founder Lara Pia Arrobio, Caroline Vreeland and Sporty & Rich founder and former head of creative for Kith Women Emily Oberg, among others.
Basic Space was founded by chief executive officer Jesse Lee, who is also the founder of marketing firm dFm, and is backed by a group of private investors. The company said it expects to make a formal announcement on outside funding for Basic Space this year. — KARI HAMANAKA