Fashion’s Bold Play at Milan Design Week 2025

During Milan Design Week 2025, some of fashion’s biggest brands transformed the city into their architectural playground, showcasing curated home collections and surprising activations — from a vintage train pop-up to designer gelato stops.

FENDI

Unveiled in its flagship store in Piazza della Scala, Fendi Casa’s Milan Design Week 2025 collection honours the brand’s 100th anniversary by fusing innovation and heritage. Fendi is no stranger to interiors, having built the Fendi Casa brand 17 years ago when it debuted at Design Miami. As one may be aware, Fendi does luxury fashion, but Fendi Casa produces luxury furniture — a full-fledged interior collection comprising seating systems, sofas, dining tables and more.

At Milan Design Week 2025, the brand featured British designer Lewis Kemmenoe, the showcase presented softer, organic designs and opulent, glittering items, presenting a duality of clashing aesthetics.

Highlights were Ceriani Szostak’s Later modular sofa, Stefano Gallizioli’s Twist chair and the Fendi Cover sofa, which could be customised. Elsewhere, the house’s iconic “FF” logo gets reimagined in furniture: the Efo coffee table by Peter Mabeo softens the motif into sculptural curves, while the accompanying Efo side table and cabinet (in yellow ceramic, wood, or both) play with scale and material tension.

JIL SANDER

Everyone is talking about Jil Sander — not just because of Simone Bellotti’s recent appointment as creative director. This week marks a different kind of return: the woman herself. A decade after stepping away from her eponymous label (for the third and presumably final time), Jil Sander reemerges — not on a runway, but at Milan Design Week, in collaboration with storied German furniture maker Thonet. The project reimagines two Bauhaus design icons: the B 97 side table (1933) and Marcel Breuer’s S 64 chair (1929), distilled into two new lines — Serious and Nordic.

Glossy metal, dark Viennese caning, and Italian bull leather in Bordeaux, black and olive all scream sexiness. Nordic is the stylish equivalent, including nickel frames, white-painted timber, and light leather. Though minor, the modifications are clearly hers. A reminder that Jil Sander’s restraint is still relevant off the catwalk.

Longchamp

This isn’t the first time the Parisian house has used Pierre Renart’s skills (they started working together in 2021 with the now-iconic Wave coffee table). Still, it is the first to incorporate Longchamp’s signature leather into the mix, possibly the most striking. Pierre Renart’s most recent collaboration with Longchamp makes two of the most substantial materials in design feel weightless.

The collection includes the Wave banquette and a set of eight Ruban chaises — all crafted from American walnut and wrapped in supple Longchamp cowhide. Sinuous and fluid, they bend like ribbons, defying the rigidity of their materials. Mixed materials have been having a moment, but bringing this kind of lightness to leather? That is something else entirely — catwalk, coffee table or otherwise.

HERMES

This year, Hermès moved purposefully and elegantly to the left when others zagged right. At La Pelota, a pristine post-war swimming pool transformed into a cathedral of light, suspended vitrines (nearer to altars than display cases) hold what the brand calls “perfect objects.” There are mouth-blown glass tables and coloured lights that cast soft halos, but what really stands out is what isn’t there: spectacle.

Hermès doesn’t take on a project unless it can master it, which is precisely why the French house has produced some of Milan Design Week’s most subtly radical moments since it first began. Designed by Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry, the collection leans into suggestion, not just objects but also the aura they leave behind.

D&G Casa

There aren’t many maximalist Mediterranean channels like Dolce & Gabbana, and the brand’s interiors division, D&G Casa, fully realises the dream. Live, laugh, la dolce vita. With glazed porcelain tableware and matching linens, its most recent offering, Verde Maiolica, embodies southern Italy’s vibrantly green, citrus-infused essence in a riot of green. The D&G Casa flagship on Corso Venezia 7 has everything on display, because for Dolce, more is not more — it is simply the minimum.

Saint Laurent

Saint Laurent unveiled four previously unseen pieces of furniture as a tribute to 20th-century design pioneer Charlotte Perriand. Under Anthony Vaccarello’s artistic guidance and in partnership with the Perriand archive, the works, which were first conceptualised between 1943 and 1967, were recreated from sketches and prototypes. The partnership pays homage to the house’s history while revitalising its design. This is an appropriate cross-temporal conversation because Yves Saint Laurent personally appreciated and collected Perriand’s work. The focal point is the sculptured five-seat sofa, La Banquette de la Résidence de l’Ambassadeur du Japon à Paris (1967), which was first created for the Japanese ambassador’s Paris apartment. It is a practical, elegant, subtly radical example of Perriand’s East-meets-West concept.

La Bibliothèque Rio de Janeiro (1962), a rosewood bookcase with sliding cane doors that draws inspiration from Brazilian shading techniques, and Le Fauteuil Visiteur Indochine (1943), a once-lost armchair from her time in Vietnam that has been reimagined with a tubular steel frame, rosewood seat, and traditional Thai cushion, are also on display and available in extremely limited editions. Ten piled layers of rosewood and cherrywood form a tabletop of concentric circles in the fourth, La Table Mille-Feuilles (1963), which was long thought to be highly complicated to build but has now been realised — a brilliant display of patience and accuracy.

Louis Vuitton

In a major departure from its well-known Objets Nomades line, Louis Vuitton debuted its first Home Collections at the storied Palazzo Serbelloni at Milan Design Week 2025. The brand’s commitment to fine craftsmanship and innovative design was reflected in the exhibition’s five separate lines: Objets Nomades, Signature, Games, Decoration and Art de la Table.​

The renowned designers Patricia Urquiola, India Mahdavi and the Campana Brothers created 11 new pieces for Objets Nomades, including the “Disco Cocoon” chair covered in 10,000 mirrored tiles. Using materials like leather and marquetry, Patrick Jouin and Cristián Mohaded contributed to the Signature collection, which recreated Louis Vuitton’s famous codes.

The Games line introduced playful luxury items, such as a pinball machine designed by Pharrell Williams. The Art de la Table and Decoration lines drew inspiration from artist Fortunato Depero and featured vibrant textiles and tableware. A highlight was the “Cabinet of Curiosities” by Marc Newson, a monogrammed trunk housing 19 leather-lined compartments. ​This comprehensive collection underscores Louis Vuitton’s commitment to blending heritage with contemporary living, offering a holistic approach to luxury home design.​

Armani Casa

Unveiled in Milan’s Salone del Mobile, the Armani/Casa 2025 collection is a brilliant blend of Italian workmanship and international inspiration. The collection, “Echoes from the World,” turns Giorgio Armani’s Palazzo Orsini into a cinematic tour of five culturally diverse regions: Europe, China, Japan, Morocco and Arabia. Each room features custom items inspired by regional style, such as the China room’s Vivace table with its silver-leaf top and bamboo-like legs, and the Japan room’s Virtù cabinet with its katana-like handles.

The collection, which uses mother-of-pearl, velvet and lacquered glass, highlights handcrafted skills. Notable pieces include the Trocadero table with its platinum-lacquered waves and plexiglass legs, and the Morfeo bed with its geometric designs influenced by Berber. This immersive exhibition not only highlights Armani’s design philosophy but also offers a personal glimpse into his travels, with curated artefacts from his own collection enhancing the narrative.

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