Fendi’s Fall/Winter Campaign by Jo Ann Callis Turns Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Elevates Fashion Beyond Aesthetics
FENDI’s Fall/Winter 2026–2027 campaign turns fashion into a study of human connection, using Jo Ann Callis’s distinctive photographic language and Rome as a backdrop to explore gesture, distance and intimacy within Maria Grazia Chiuri’s new “shared wardrobe” vision for the house.
Suspended moments and Callis’s visual language
The FENDIFW2627 campaign is described as capturing “suspended moments where gesture, space and silence reveal the complexity of human relationships,” positioning each image as a fragment of a larger narrative. Photographed by Jo Ann Callis, the series reflects her signature style: staged scenes rich with visual metaphors, where everyday interiors and bodies become sites of ambiguity longing, vulnerability, ambivalence, power and play.
Fendi notes that “every photograph becomes part of a larger story, inviting viewers to imagine what exists beyond the frame,” with gestures, glances and spatial gaps suggesting emotional distance even in physically close moments. Rather than a single hero image, the…
campaign is being unveiled “one image at a time”, reinforcing the idea of an unfolding visual dialogue. Rome as a timeless, shared backdrop Set against the timeless backdrop of Rome, the campaign uses the city’s architecture and interiors as a quiet stage for Callis’s vignettes.
Columns, corridors and domestic spaces echo Chiuri’s interest in everyday environments rather than purely theatrical sets, framing Fendi’s clothes within lived-in contexts where relationships play out over time.
This Roman setting connects the campaign to Fendi’s heritage as a Roman house while also anchoring Maria Grazia Chiuri’s design language a mix of structure, softness and intimacy in the city where she has long explored feminist and collective narratives.
Maria Grazia Chiuri’s shared wardrobe vision The campaign is built around Chiuri’s idea of a “shared wardrobe” in which womenswear and menswear co exist, and the same coats, jackets and trousers are adapted in size rather than split into “his” and “hers.” One of the key sentences cited in coverage of her debut Fall collection at Fendi is “Less I, more us,” summarising her focus on collective identity over singular showpieces…
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