Design Week in Disguised Form: Milan's 2025 Event Spotlights the Future Belonging to Furniture
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Milan Design Week is here, gearing up for its 63rd edition! Labeled as the world's largest furniture fair yet serving as fashion week in disguise, this event attracts designers, curators, students, collectors, and brand minds, all eyeing the next big thing.
This year, heritage brands such as Loro Piana, Jil Sander, Roberto Cavalli, Dolce & Gabbana, Saint Laurent, Missoni, Rimowa, Hermès, and more, are stepping out of their comfort zones, showcasing non-traditional activations that extend beyond their original remit. The catwalk hasn't been deserted, but fashion houses are experimenting with cross-pollination and hedging their bets.
Loewe commissioned 25 teapots for this season, while Miu Miu revived its literary club, this time dedicated to Simone de Beauvoir, featuring discussions, salons, and events. La DoubleJ offers tarot readings, eschewing obvious marketing tactics and focusing on world-building. You're more likely to find us wandering through future-oriented installations that blend fashion, furniture, and beyond, rather than at the usual bars.
Below, we present the fashion Moments you shouldn't miss at Milan Design Week 2025.
D&G Casa
Who better than Dolce & Gabbana to channel maximalist Mediterranean vibes? At their interiors arm - D&G Casa - the brand delivers a vibrant and lush southern Italian spirit through the Verde Maiolica collection. Rendered in glazed porcelain tableware and coordinating linens, this collection dazzles at the D&G Casa flagship on Corso Venezia 7.
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For Dolce & Gabbana, less isn't more; it's simply the minimum.
Hermès
Hermès doesn't undertake a project unless it can excel at it, a trait evident in creating some of Milan Design Week's most quietly innovative moments since its inception over a decade ago. This year is no exception. If others swayed right, Hermès moved deliberately, elegantly left.
At La Pelota - a perfectly preserved post-war swimming pool transformed into a cathedral of light - suspended vitrines hold what Hermès calls "perfect objects". There are mouth-blown glass tables, colored lights casting soft halos, but what truly stands out is what isn't there: spectacle.
Designed by Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry, the collection leans into suggestion rather than obvious marketing. A collection of elegant whispers, it focuses on the aura that objects leave behind.
Longchamp
Can you make two substantial materials - wood and leather - feel weightless? Longchamp managed it with their latest collaboration with Pierre Renart. This project includes the Wave coffee table, now featuring Longchamp's signature leather, and a set of eight Ruban chaises, all crafted from American walnut and Longchamp cowhide. Sinuous and fluid, these pieces bend like ribbon, defying their materials' rigidity.
Fendi Casa
Brands with fashion-based home lines usually don't excel at interiors, but Fendi does. Fendi has been a force since the inception of Design Miami 17 years ago, consistently delivering full-fledged furniture and interior collections. This year, FENDI Casa unveiled a robust new lineup inside its Piazza della Scala boutique. Highlights include the Later sofa, offering a plush seat wrapped in metal, leather, or fabric, and the Efo cabinet and side table, reimagining Fendi's iconic logo in furniture design.
Light meets shadow. Rigid meets fluid. High-gloss meets hand-hewn. Fendi continues to enchant, mirroring the emerging Milan Design Week Trends 2025.
Jil Sander
Everyone's buzzing about Jil Sander, not just due to Simone Bellotti's recent creative director appointment. This week symbolizes a different kind of return, with the designer herself. After a decade away from her eponymous label, Jil Sander steps back into the scene, not on a runway, but at Milan Design Week, collaborating with Thonet to reimagine Bauhaus design icons: the B 97 side table and Marcel Breuer's S 64 chair. The collaboration offers two new lines - Serious and Nordic, exemplifying Jil Sander's enduring minimalist approach to design.
The Row
The Row has launched homeware, quietly, of course. A collection of cashmere blankets and quilted bedding sets arrived with the same stealth-wealth sensibility that has characterized Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's label since its 2006 launch. A testament to the cultural legacy The Row has accumulated despite its youth, the homeware collection signifies that living spaces are emerging as a new frontier for fashion innovations.
We're living in a moment where furniture wears Louboutins and a Chanel couch is no longer a punchline. The future might just be lifestyle.
So, get ready for a striking blend of fashion, furniture, and design at Milan Design Week 2025!
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- Color Trends: Bold, vibrant colors dominate this year's Milan Design Week. Fashion and interior design are both embracing these vibrant and playful palettes, as seen in the Manifesto by Matteo Pellegrino and in Milan street style during the event.
- Innovation and Cross-Disciplinary Thinking: This year's Milan Design Week highlights a forward-thinking approach that incorporates innovative materials and concepts, including the Habitus Lamp by Andrea Anastasio, which combines LED lighting with handmade embroidery techniques.
- Sustainability: Sustainable design choices are also on display at Milan Design Week. For example, Gucci's "Bamboo Encounters" exhibition celebrates bamboo, a material significant in Gucci's history and one that could lead to sustainable interior design trends.
- Cross-Industry Collaborations: Collaborations between luxury fashion brands and design companies are showcasing how high-end fashion can influence interior design aesthetics, as exemplified by Louis Vuitton's Objets Nomades collection.
- fashion-and-beauty and interior-design have become closely intertwined as labels like Dolce & Gabbana (D&G Casa) extend their reach to furniture, delivering vibrant and lush Italian-inspired collections;
- color plays a significant role this year, with bold and vibrant hues dominating not only fashion trends but also the furniture industry, as seen in the Verde Maiolica collection by D&G Casa;
- strategic cross-industry partnerships are shaping the Milan Design Week scene, with companies like Longchamp combining wood and leather to create lightweight furniture designs;
- a focus on sustainability is evident at Milan Design Week, with brands such as Gucci showcasing exhibitions that promote and celebrate sustainable materials.
