The centrality of Milan in the European context is a preferential element for the allocation of cultural projects that enhance our heritage and strengthen collaborations: Milan as Italy’s ambassador to the world.

This network of relationships overlaps the urban area and converges at its core, a place of historical heritage and a forge of the future.

At the heart of Fashion Week 2026, an event that once again confirms the Lombard capital as the pulsating center of international fashion and creativity, Urban Texture presents itself as an immersive journey through the landscape of contemporary art. Painting, sculpture, installation, and video art intertwine in a dynamic dialogue reflecting the textures, contrasts, and cross-pollinations of the urban dimension. This is not merely an exhibition, but a sensory experience that explores the living matter of the city: surfaces, rhythms, memories, and transformations.

The city’s “textures,” in an increasingly layered and interconnected world, interpret the metropolitan environment as a space of continuous overlap between aesthetics and everyday life, between architecture and artistic gesture. Like a stage, Milan’s fashion show venues, art galleries, and museums transform and make room for leading brands presenting their collections in unique settings, aiming to astonish and captivate the public.

In this context, the selected works become fragments of a collective narrative that inhabits the asphalt, reflects in glass surfaces, and pulses through the sounds and silences of urban spaces.

The protagonists of this event are some of the city’s most iconic and evocative areas: the Fashion Quadrilateral—Via Montenapoleone, Via della Spiga, Corso Venezia, Via Manzoni, and the Duomo—stands as the beating heart of Fashion Week 2026 and of innovative art exhibitions. Each presented work is a visual and conceptual “fabric” that conveys the complexity of our time, made of material contrasts, chromatic vibrations, graphic signs, and visual tensions. The contamination between art, fashion, and design, between natural and built elements, between perception and public space, becomes a shared language.

Artists

Angela Chiti, Alessio Discepoli, Alberto Malossi, Marilena Evangelista, Benedetta Berti, Cinzia Vanin, Manuela Ghidini, Alessandra Dieffe, Stefania Belli, Ignacio Cavero, Alessandro Pellegrini, Christian Celic - Critra, Pietro Daresta, Rita Lombardi, Elena Zotti, Elisabetta Mariani, Daniela Costi, Monica Capotosti - Le Fuse, Giancarlo Caporali, Umberto Iorio, Giovanni Medusei, David Jacobson, Ariadna Novicov, Teresa Bellini, Matteo Pizzilli