Breakfast with Barter in Piazza Duomo: Milan Opens Design Week with Cattelan

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At seven in the morning on Monday, April 20, 2026, in Piazza Duomo, Milan opened Design Week without distance, without filters, without staging in the strictest sense. There were coffee and pastries, of course, but above all there was a much more interesting gesture: arriving with an object in hand and putting it into circulation. […]

Step Aboard within SCENT: Why Fondazione Sozzani Matters

There are contexts that work as a simple showcase, and others that shift the meaning of a presence altogether. SCENT at Fondazione Sozzani clearly belongs to the second category. Not only because it is the first edition of a curated project dedicated to fragrance, but because it takes shape within an institution that has long […]

Fragrance layering: your urban signature, skin on skin

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Milan hits your skin before perfume does. The thin haze that clings to the tracks, the cold metal of a handrail, the wet green of an inner courtyard after rain. In the middle of it all, there’s you, moving like a sentence written on the run, not over-edited. Fragrance layering isn’t a beauty trick. It’s […]

Le Temps de l’Amour

Milan, time, and love Thinking about Love, Milan came to mind and how closely it is tied to time. Finding a bit of time in the city is love for ourselves. The smells of the city Leaving Milan-Cortina aside, let’s imagine an ordinary day. When I walk around Milan, I am always aware of the […]

The Essence of Silence in 2026

What are your dreams and goals as we embrace a new year, destined like all those that came before it to have a life of its own? Well, here are mine: to slow down and embrace 2026 with serenity. To remain clear of mind, lucid, able to take time to think, without racing through life […]