Fuorisalone
Milan Design Week 2022

Milan | Fuorisalone di Milano
June 2022

Milan is a place of progress, a city relentlessly reinventing itself.

Re-visiting Milan one week after Florence I couldn’t help but hold them side-by-side in my mind. The romance of Florence is met by the reality of Milan, the almost overwhelming echoes of the past that inhibit Florence are cut through by the Milanese visions of the future.

For a city which has rebuilt itself through the values of industry and design, it makes sense. In Milan, ideas are tabled without fear, possibilities are turned into prototypes, design identities are forged. Progress is life, and it’s all done with a sense of positivity looking towards the future. As a result, everything, from public transport and street trees, to food, coffee and clothing is more varied, more curated, more accessible.

The Fuorisalone, or Milan Design Week, is in many ways a microcosm of the way this city operates on a larger scale: with vigour, creativity, and a no-holds-barred approach to invention and celebration. The sprawling, wild outpouring of ideas and things is at once impossible to take in completely, and completely absorbing.

There’s a rhythm to life here, a way of seeing the world, of creating the world, that’s intoxicating. Not only during the Fuorisalone but especially then. I can’t wait to come back.