Italian Cinema Today

Roman Holiday Fendi’s forthcoming travel collection conjures a romantic bygone era through an icon of Italian cinema. The origin of Fendi’s Continental-infused new travel collection (which hits select stores in March and is available to preorder now) began, fittingly, somewhere over the Atlantic: Childhood friends Silvia Venturini Fendi, the brand’s creative director of accessories, and L.A.-based Veronica De Laurentiis, the eldest daughter of Italian actress Silvana Mangano and film producer Dino De Laurentiis, reconnected on a flight from Los Angeles to Rome in 2010.    That high-altitude meeting prompted a trip down sartorial memory lane, during which the pair revisited Mangano’s longstanding relationship with the label—from the faille fabric and leather-trimmed trench coat she wore in the 1974 Luchino Visconti film  Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno (Conversation Piece)  to her more personal items, including a vintage Pergamena suitcase t...