By The Fashion Editorial Team
For FENDI Fall/Winter 2026–27, photographer Jo Ann Callis turns Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first collection for the Roman house into an exacting study of intimacy. Staged in richly layered interiors, the campaign places its figures close enough to suggest attachment yet far enough apart to preserve mystery. A hand, a glance, the measured interval between two bodies: each gesture becomes evidence of the perennial bargain between longing and self-protection.
That tension finds its sartorial counterpart in Chiuri’s idea of a shared wardrobe. Womenswear and menswear mirror and unsettle one another through tailoring, denim, soft transparency, leather, and accessories; similarity does not erase difference but sharpens it. Masculine and feminine codes circulate freely, revealing identity as something articulated through styling, posture, and exchange rather than fixed in any single garment.
Callis developed the images through a sketchbook, conceiving each photograph as a suspended scene within a larger narrative informed by the interplay between man and woman. The influence of choreographer Pina Bausch is felt in the charged eloquence of proximity: bodies share a room without surrendering their separateness. Rome, meanwhile, is more than backdrop. Drapery, sconces, worn surfaces, and filtered light lend the campaign the city’s cinematic afterimage, placing FENDI’s clothes in a world poised between memory and dream.
