While it’s true that designer fashion is indeed a luxury for the well-off, there are just some things that only the truly wealthy, only the likes of richly reared royalty and oil-owning oligarchs can afford. This season, Fendi shows that it’s one such luxury, and that you’d better be prepared to pay a lot of zeroes for what they’re selling.

Fur is the first item on the Fendi fashion shopping list, and it definitely had a lot of the material for this season (which is probably why so many of the pieces were really short). Of course, everybody’s been doing fur this season – reason enough for Lagerfeld to take the furry fashion trend several notches up. Fendi isn’t just using plain old plebian astrakhan; several Fendi pieces had fur that had 24k gold applied to the individual hairs using patented Fendi technology. It’s one thing to have designer goods, but having your outerwear double as bling (like the furry gold coat over the brown belted number) is a whole new level of luxury altogether.

Knit was another big (but not as bling-y) item in the Fendi collection for this season. There were several knit tops such as the belted navy wrap paired with the ruffled skirt that fair-haired Agyness Deyn thoroughly worked up and down the runway. But when it’s a simple yet exquisite knit top against patented gold-treated coats, there’s no contest about which one will make bigger waves in the fashion industry – and dents in the checkbooks of the wealthy.

Without looking too much at the details, Lagerfeld’s collection for this season actually looks quite similar to Jean Paul Gaultiers. If, however, you want to tone down the eccentricity and turn the elitism way up, Fendi is your friend for this season. This is fashion you can take all the way to the bank (and the jeweler’s), honey.

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