FENDI Peekaboo-k

FENDI Peekaboo-K is a limited-edition volume produced by Lampoon to mark fifteen years of the Peekaboo – available at the Lampoon Bookstore.  

The FENDI bag designed by Silvia Venturini Fendi in 2008, conceived as an object to be opened, read and explored, the book translates the logic of the bag into a publishing format: exterior and interior, surface and construction, intimacy and display.

THE PEEKABOO AS A BOOK

The Peekaboo-K volume narrates the story, craftsmanship, evolution and interpretations of the FENDI Peekaboo. The bag’s defining gesture — a front panel that opens and reveals its inside — becomes the editorial structure of the book. Like the object it studies, Peekaboo-K is built around discovery, irony and the relationship between form and intimacy.

FENDI ARCHIVE AND PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION

Inside the volume, a photographic collection presents 80 bags from the FENDI historical archive. The book is organized into four chapters, with twenty bags in each chapter. Each section introduces a different visual approach by photographers Sebastian Lager, Isabelle Wenzel, Peter Langer and Adrien Dubost.

The chapters are introduced by four international creative figures: Sophie Fontanel, Kengo Kuma, Chloe Bailey and Naomi Watts. Their texts position the Peekaboo not only as a fashion accessory, but as a cultural object shaped by design, memory, craftsmanship and personal interpretation.

SILVIA VENTURINI FENDI AND THE LANGUAGE OF LEGACY

The introduction brings together three generations of the FENDI family: Silvia Venturini Fendi, Delfina Delettrez Fendi and Leonetta Luciano Fendi. Their conversation traces the meaning of legacy through family, design, irony and manufacturing knowledge.

The Peekaboo is presented as a design of complicity: a bag that opens, conceals, reveals and performs. Its name comes from the childhood game peek-a-boo, where the gesture of covering and uncovering creates surprise. In the FENDI vocabulary, this gesture becomes a structure of elegance, intimacy and restraint.

CRAFT AND MANUFACTURING CULTURE

Peekaboo-K reflects a contemporary reading of luxury: quieter, more durable, less dependent on seasonal visibility. The book connects the Peekaboo to the idea of an object made to remain — a bag that can pass between generations and carry different forms of identity, use and memory.

The volume also documents FENDI’s manufacturing culture, from the evolution of the Peekaboo to its many variations in leather, fabric, embroidery and material research. It frames the bag as a case study in Italian craftsmanship, archive work and long-term design.

PRODUCT DETAILS

FENDI Peekaboo-K
publisher & producer: Lampoon Publishing House
subject: FENDI Peekaboo bag
first published: 2008
archive selection: 80 FENDI Peekaboo bags
structure: four chapters, twenty bags per chapter
photography: Sebastian Lager, Isabelle Wenzel, Peter Langer, Adrien Dubost
contributors: Sophie Fontanel, Kengo Kuma, Chloe Bailey, Naomi Watts
introductory conversation: Silvia Venturini Fendi, Delfina Delettrez Fendi, Leonetta Luciano Fendi

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FENDI Peekaboo-k is the volume produced by Lampoon.