Luxury label owned by the LVMH Group, Fendi plans to expand production capacityby setting up a new factory in Fermo, Italy. As per Fashion Network, the brand recently inaugurated its first flagship store for its furniture line, in Milan
The new factory, equipped with solar panels, will extend over 7,000 sq m, including production facilities, offices and a warehouse. The façade will have a corrugated aluminium surface for an effect akin to draped leather, and the interiors, benefiting from plenty of natural light thanks to glass walls and skylights, will be exceptionally bright, and distinctive for their minimalist style, enhanced by steel furniture and quartz cement floors.
The Fermo factory will be inaugurated in autumn 2022, as will the other new Fendi facility being built in Bagno a Ripoli, near Florence. The latter is a new design and production plant specialised in leather goods, called Fabbrica, which is being constructed on the site of the old Fornace Brunelleschi blast furnace.
The former industrial wasteland will be transformed into a sustainable factory extending over an area of 12,000 sq m, almost entirely covered with vegetation, designed by Milanese architecture studio Piuarch. Fabbrica will initially employ nearly 250 people, growing to 400-500 at full capacity and supplementing the output of the other Fendi factory in Tuscany, located in Ponte aEma.
