";s:4:"text";s:3911:" There are more real connections between design and fashion than there are between art and fashion.”It was during her initial visit to Design Miami that Venturini Fendi first met Aranda and Lasch. Venturini Fendi is now the only member of the family still working there and she has continued to translate her spirit and wit into her creations.Although she loved to see the women of the atelier in their white coats, and even modelled for the Fendi ready-to-wear shows after Karl Lagerfeld arrived as designer in 1972, her imagination was most captured by a private salon in the downstairs boutique where evening bags were kept.She has also led the way with 'micro’ versions of the brand’s most successful styles – with an attractively more affordable price point. No, not a French baked good, but a colourful, dainty under-the-arm handbag that was the first to attract a waiting list in the days before waiting lists became a made-up marketing ploy.As Silvia Venturini Fendi puts it, she was 'born into fashion’. So I said, “Let’s do a classic bag, back to our roots but in a very Fendi way.”’'I say, “OK, maybe I do a little bag.” And they said, “Functional.” And this bag I came up with had short handles so your hands were free – that’s very functional.A more contemporary version of the Baguette, available in embellished, shearling and stud versions for an edgier lookStriking though she is, with her dramatic dark eyes and caramel bobbed hair, she is dressed in demure, masculine style – dark slacks, a striped banker shirt and a camel boyfriend cardigan. 'It is the anti-Baguette,’ she says. The designers were then installed in makeshift studios in Spazio Fendi, the former garage where the house has its fashion shows, and more than 1,500 visitors a day came to watch them work. (2015). “Dealing with one-of-a-kind design gives you a great sense of freedom,” she said. 'So they wanted a minimal bag too. Established on the Via del Plebiscito by Edoardo and Adele Fendi in 1925, it quickly earned an elegant reputation. The day after the opening of Design Miami, Venturini Fendi walked the audience through the company’s history during a panel discussion with designer Ron Arad and hip-hop impresario Pharrell Williams. 'After the Baguette, [there was] accessories fever. “You would find Nacho Carbonell using chicken wire to create installations he covered with leather. “This is my chair,” she said, taking a seat, “and this is Karl’s.