Scarlett Conlon

2 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Scarlett Conlon

It was in 1959 that Valentino Garavani revealed his first collection to instant acclaim in Rome – including a dress, ‘La Fiesta’, in a bold shade of red. Some 66 years later, the singular, Pantone-recognised colour that has defined his prolific body of work ever since is being celebrated mere metres from where his career started.

1 month ago | 10magazine.com | Scarlett Conlon

Loewe! Prada! Gucci! Fashion’s other favourite design week took place in Milan this week: Salone del Mobile. It’s hard to exaggerate the scale of Salone del Mobile at the moment. Once the design world’s coming together to promote Italian home furnishings and design coming together, the annual design extravaganza is increasingly starting to feel like the place that every luxury fashion house has bumped up to the top of their agenda after – alongside, even – fashion week. Why? it’s four-fold.

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Scarlett Conlon

As Milan Design Week 2025 gets into full swing, the fashion contingent is putting on its most comprehensive showing at the design fair to date and taking up residence in some of the city’s storied landmarks to do so.

2 months ago | wallpaper.com | Scarlett Conlon

The beating pulse of Brera is not where you can usually expect to discover a slow-down sanctuary during Salone del Mobile. Yet in the sacristy of Brera’s Chiesa del Carmine, Aesop has created just that. The Australian skincare brand’s installation, ‘The Second Skin’, opened to design-week-goers on Monday (7 April 2025) as an antidote to the noise of the city in its busiest week of the year.

2 months ago | mrandmrssmith.com | Scarlett Conlon

There are two rules when taking your mother away with you for a girls’ break: the first is make sure it is somewhere impossibly chic, ridiculously luxurious, and makes her feel like a queen. The second looks after the first: take her to the Portrait Milano. I had been looking for the perfect opportunity to whisk my mum away.