Like a fairytale suspended between dream and architecture, FENDI presents Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first Cruise collection in a short film. Her imagined Suzie – inspired by the protagonist of Histoire d'Eau by Jacques de Bascher – moves slowly through an uninhabited rationalist building of twentieth-century Rome: an austere space designed to capture the movement of light, where emptiness and matter, geometry and silence exist in constant dialogue. The garments, like the figures who wear them, become part of this motionless, feverish landscape — abstract, yet intensely real.

Dressed in black, a color that contains all others, this new Suzie appears as a symbolic figure, powerful and remote. Wrapped in feathers, she moves through the building with ritualistic gestures that evoke dance, chess, fencing, and theatre. She commands the space without ever fully belonging to it, while the marble surfaces and staircases seem to speak in an ancient, austere language. 

The film moves beyond the traditional opposition between black-and-white and color. As Suzie enters the building, she steps into a dream. Colors fade, reality loses its base, and every detail takes on the quality of a vision. The setting itself becomes the true protagonist.  The staircase assumes a central role, towering over the characters, guiding and dominating them. It becomes a mechanism of appearance and disappearance, a symbol of a slow and inevitable journey into the unknown.

Within this suspended space emerges the film’s true protagonist: the austere beauty of the garments, capable of asserting themselves even against the marble, against time, and against the fragility of the human figures.  

In the silence of the rationalist building, one almost expects a connection to form between Suzie and the viewer, yet that contact never arrives. When she finally leaves the building, stripped of her plumage, she does not seem to return to reality. Instead, she emerges from one dream only to enter another, dissolving into the closing credits like a creature destined only for flight.