Here’s How Fashion Designers Pulled Up At Milan Design Week
Ellen Von Unwerth shoots new furniture collection for Philipp Plein
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Last week, Milan was lit with design-related events as part of Salone Del Mobile and Milan Design Week, which ran from June 6 to 12. While the annual design week sheds a spotlight on leading lighting design, furniture design and more, it’s interesting how fashion designers take a different approach when designing interiors. And they didn’t fail when pulling up at design week. Here are some highlights.
Philipp Plein
The German fashion designer debuted his foray into interiors with his new home collection, with a booth at Salone Del Mobile. He created a new Home Collection photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth, and created in collaboration with furniture company Eichholtz, and wallpaper firm, Zambaiti Parati. “I designed a truly immersive and experiential collection. Home design and architecture have changed post pandemic, and this made me re-think the way people should feel at home” said Plein.
Christian Lacroix at Salone del Mobile 2022 for their collaboration with Vista Alegre
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Christian LaCroix
The French fashion brand also creates designer rugs, dreamy, floral-inspired interiors, and furniture. Lacroix presented latest collection, called Fête vos jeux, at Salone Del Mobile 2022 with porcelain brand Vista Alegre.
Casa Toiletpaper
Toiletpaper is more than just a magazine, it's a fashion and interior design company too by artist Maurizio Cattelan and the photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. They not only throw great parties, but create everything from cat sweaters to cheeky slogans on bathroom mirrors. They also have a showroom in a house that has garnered a lot of attention on Instagram, which they call Casa Toiletpaper (last week, they announced Via Balzaretti, the street it calls home, as Toiletpaper Street, with a marble plaque). Inside the house (by appointment only) there was a showcase of their latest design offerings, available on their website.
China's Independent Fashion Designers Are Breaking Free — A Preview of Shanghai Fashion Week
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Until March of 2022, Shanghai had spent a significant part of 'The Covid Years' to a great extent without lockdown. 2020's worldwide episodes had provoked a mass re-visitation of the Motherland. Chinese models and picture takers ran back to China's design and monetary center point — never more occupied — while New York, London, Paris, and Milan came to a standstill. Forthcoming Chinese planners moved their organizations back home, firmly followed by a rush of design moves on from any semblance of Parsons and Central Saint Martins, who might somehow have remained abroad to understudy with global houses. Shanghai's design scene had never felt more invigorated.
"Shanghai, from an inventive and plan stance, was blasting. There were such countless new brands springing up. Laid out Chinese originators were developing and entering another section. The city was truly turning into this novel social center point on a worldwide stage," says fashioner Ming Ma from his Shanghai loft, where he had been secured. Last week, he got out of his loft compound without precedent for 60 days. The principal thing he did was cycle around the city for a really long time.
Without a doubt, as lockdowns cleared Shanghai after Chinese New Year, Lü Xiaolei (Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Fashion Week Organizing Committee and tenderly referred to by neighborhood style circles as Madame Lü) and what ought to have been a stuffed show timetable of Chinese creators, ended up at a stalemate.
Development was ended on Shanghai Fashion Week's standard Xintiandi show structure. Fashioners with studios abroad or creators in different urban areas discarded their work-in-progress show pieces back out to Beijing or Guangzhou or London or New York. Those who'd got back to the city from their vacation breaks to shoot lookbooks and configuration sets in front of their shows, either made hurried exits or bunkered down with their incomplete assortments at home.