Scarlett Conlon

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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Scarlett Conlon

‘Time is very important, you have to use it in the right way,’ Pier Luigi Loro Piana, the sixth-generation Loro Piana family member told a candlelit dining room at Shanghai’s Museum of Art Pudong on Thursday evening. Moments beforehand, he had welcomed guests to the opening of the landmark exhibition celebrating his family brand’s centenary, a retrospective that at its heart is about honouring the passage of time.