NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: Sarah Jessica Parker was impressed by the artworks on display at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, the location chosen by Maria Grazia Chiuri to show her first couture show for Fendi. “I’m really stunned, I think it’s extraordinary, I can’t believe I’m here. My only regret is that I wish my family were here,” said the actress before the show, touring the museum.
She marveled at the attention paid by artists “dedicating themselves to documenting the working class, people in service. It’s not what we typically see in one room. And [I discovered] so many Italian Pop artists that I didn’t know until now. It’s a gift inside the gift inside the gift.” While having to leave the next day, she added, smiling, that “Rome isn’t going anywhere. I will be back.”
Yara Shahidi and Sarah Jessica Parker
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Parker is fronting the new Fendi Baguette campaign and, asked about the longevity of the collaboration, she said, “I don’t think we [at ‘Sex and the City’] ever imagined that any house with the stature of Fendi would even loan us anything and that it was in fact a Baguette was a confluence of things that came together in a really consequential way. I feel lucky that I was the one holding it, but outside of this, it’s the relationship built with Silvia [Venturini Fendi] and the family that I’m hugely grateful for and their hospitality. And this tonight is on another level; it’s always on another level.”
