BOARD GAMES, POOLS AND FLOWERS: FASHION SETS FROM MILAN AND PARIS
During the Summer-Spring 2026 Mens presentations in Milan and Paris last week, three fashion shows stood out for their use of scenography not just as as backdrop, but as narrative device. In Milan, Prada enlisted Rem Koolhaas’ AMO to transform the Deposito at Fondazione Prada into a shag-pile garden of oversized black-and-white florals, turning the raw industrial space into a tactile, abstracted field. At Louis Vuitton in Paris, architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai reimagined the plaza outside the Centre Pompidou as a vast Snakes and Ladders game board, drawing on South Asian symbolism and earthy textures to create a geometric playground for Pharrell Williams' latest collection. Meanwhile, inside the Bourse de Commerce, Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello embraced quiet precision, staging his show around Tadao Ando’s concrete rotunda and a poetic sound installation by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, where porcelain bowls floated in a shallow pool, colliding softly in tune with the collection’s understated elegance.
LOCAL BUILDING WASTE BECOMES PUBLIC FURNITURE IN STOCKHOLM
In X-TRAKOJAN, Nicholas Niemen suggests a form of vernacular architecture rooted in circular design principles. The project, developed in collaboration with the municipality of Stockholm, reclaims a vacant plot of land in the city's port, introducing a series of site-specific public furniture assembled entirely from local building waste. See more submissions by our readers here, and find out how to upload your own project here.
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