Fendi Taps Architect Kengo Kuma for New Fendi Flow Sneaker Collaboration

Fendi tapped Japanese architect Kengo Kuma for their latest collaboration. The Italian brand’s spring 2024 menswear collection, which premiered during Milan Fashion Week Men’s in June, leaned into utilitarian aesthetics with workwear-inspired separates, vests, skirts and more. Within the label’s lineup, however, were standout sneakers crafted in partnership with Kuma, who previously launched shoes with Asics in 2019 and 2021. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kengo Kuma and Associates (@kkaa_official) Kuma’s shoes for the upcoming Fendi men’s line will combine the brand’s heritage craftsmanship with his own modern approach to design. The architect’s resulting shoes revamp the brand’s recent Fendi Flow lace-up sneakers in a primarily pale tan palette, crafted with waranshi paper, birch back, Tuscan olive wood and bamboo, according to a release from the brand. Fendi and Kengo Kuma’s sneakers on the runway at Milan Fashion Week Men’s.Pietro D’Aprano The style is complete with white laces and side pull zippers, as well as a set of 3D-printed white or beige round-toed soles — each crafted with overlapping vertical strips reminiscent of tree trunks. The collaboration also appears to feature

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