Abilmente, the celebrated handmade creativity fair, returns to Milan from March 26 to 29, taking over Superstudio Maxi and transforming it into a vibrant urban workshop where craftsmanship meets experimentation. Masterclasses, hands-on labs, live demos, new materials and emerging trends converge in a four-day celebration of imagination and talent.

Curiosity is sparked. Inspiration flows. Sleeves are quite literally rolled up. The mission? To create objects, accessories, home décor, bijoux, candles, fragrances, paintings, small art pieces, even tapestries. In short, anything and everything so long as it’s made by hand, fueled by creativity and free from the pressure of perfection.

From rooftop to open-air creative living room, a new chapter unfolds at Superstudio Più. During Milan Design Week, the venue’s Roof hosts the debut of Re.Circle. Phenomenology of Urban Space, an original project, an unprecedented setting, a shape-shifting agora where disciplines converge and collide. Street art, design, poetry, music, and live performance come together in a vibrant cross-pollination of ideas.

Think of it as an open-air round table: Re.Circle reflects on twenty years of Milanese creative history and propels it into the present with a fresh, unrestrained perspective. The concept draws on a memory from the early 2000s, when a small group of street artists -then outsiders on the city’s art scene - found at Superstudio Più a rare space for experimentation and exchange. It was the beginning of a journey that would eventually lead them to broader recognition.

Yesterday morning, in the Conference Hall of Palazzo Reale in Milan, the elite of the creative world gathered to discover the plans for Superstudio Design 2026, a key event of Design Week. Among the approximately 350 guests crowding the room, from journalists to artists, the atmosphere was not the usual institutional one, but rather that typical energy of the Fuorisalone.

During the conference, it immediately emerged how art would hold a special place within the project, with artworks and design objects exhibited side by side and in dialogue with one another. 

From March 20 to 22, Book Pride returns to Milan at Superstudio Maxi for three days filled with poetic and contemporary inspiration. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is the title and guiding theme of the tenth edition of the National Fair of Independent Publishing—an homage to Emily Dickinson and her idea of gentle resistance, capable of enduring even the fiercest storms. A must-attend event for those who love books that dare, experiment, and explore the present with a free and independent gaze, Book Pride brings together publishers, authors, and readers in an ongoing dialogue of ideas and stories. Under the editorial coordination of Francesca Mancini and curated by Marco Amerighi and Laura Pezzino, the festival once again places women’s voices at the heart of its narrative. The program weaves together a series of literary celebrations—from Collodi to Agatha Christie—and features special sections dedicated to younger generations, comics, and sports. A journey across languages and audiences that turns Milan into a cultural living room, where the written word gives wings to imagination and hope.
Book Pride Milan, March 20–22, 2026 - Superstudio Maxi

On the occasion of MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas, MyOwnGallery presents “Winter Light”, the new exhibition by Riccardo Fregoso, an Italian-French photographer and creative director who, alongside his successful career in commercial photography, has long pursued a personal artistic research in which light plays the leading role.

Winter light quietly enters rooms, brushes against objects, crosses faces and transforms everyday scenes into vision. With “Winter Light”, Riccardo Fregoso presents a new photographic series in which ephemeral, sharp winter light reveals fragments of a private, intimate world, suspending time in almost metaphysical atmospheres.

At the far end of Via Savona stands Savona 18 Suites, just a stone’s throw from Superstudio 13. Designed by architect Aldo Cibic, the hotel was born from the thoughtful redesign of a traditional casa di ringhiera, one of old Milan’s characteristic courtyard buildings. Unassuming from the outside, it opens within to reveal a small, carefully curated world of intimacy and design. You simply have to step inside to believe it.

«I experienced Savona 18 as a large home: when redesigning it, I wanted to turn it into an intimate and welcoming place in the heart of the fashion and design Tortona district» says Aldo Cibic, the author of the project. True to his character, often countercurrent yet always sharply focused on the goal, he succeeded.

From Ovidian myth to the thematic thread of MIA: the inevitable, unpredictable and enthralling process of «Metamorfosi», one that reshapes eras, identities, languages, artistic practices and visual codes, takes center stage from March 19 to 22 at Superstudio Più, with the 15th edition of the most compelling photography fair on the scene.

Yes, it is a show, an exhibition, a kind of super-gallery devoted to contemporary fine-art photography. But it is more than that. MIA is also a space for encounter and exchange: while bringing together at Superstudio Più some of the most compelling artists, authors, gallerists and emerging talents from the international scene, it becomes the place to be for collectors, enthusiasts and the simply curious.

While the city was still breathing the energy of the Winter Olympics, Milan Fashion Week unleashed creativity, colors and meanings in an edition capable of going far beyond the runway, transforming itself into a true space for meeting and dialogue. Among the events that captured attention during the week of shows, Fashion Proryv, a side event featuring the experimental and strategic proposals of Ukrainian designers, stood out for its strong message: transforming fashion into a language that speaks about war and post-war realities, cultures, young talents and diverse communities. Superstudio, which for years has supported the Ukrainian community in Milan, was there. In the front row was Gisella Borioli in the role of patron.
The presentation of Fashion Proryv at the end of Milan Fashion Week was not a fashion show, but an event that highlighted ideas, projects and visions born in Ukrainian fashion schools and developed together with Italian mentors and Milanese fashion cultural centers.
A project created with the aim of doing fashion beyond fashion – understood not only as clothing, but as a search for answers to the needs created by the ongoing war and as an expression of shared values. At the heart of Fashion Proryv there has always been collaboration between Italian and Ukrainian students, who this year brought fresh ideas and effective solutions, telling stories of culture, tradition and belonging, but above all reminding us of the inhumane conditions that the ongoing conflict has created: wounded people, amputees, darkness, cold, limited time, disillusionment and hopes. And the strength of a population that wants to continue believing in life, despite everything.
The final closing of fashion week came on February 28 with a narrative made of fabrics and silhouettes: stories of resilience, creativity and cohesion. A dialogue that crossed linguistic, political and artistic borders to remind us that fashion, when it wants to, can be a platform for peace.
Despite the many difficulties faced, the young designers who worked in collaboration with Italian academies – whose epicenter was Brera – managed to present interesting, original collections rich in personality, created in conditions of constant instability.
In the end, Fashion Proryv showed something greater than a simple fashion event. It was a meeting place for different identities – Ukrainian, Italian, but also Venezuelan, Kurdish and beyond – with a common thread: the idea that creativity and community can be tools of global connection.
Photo: VECTA Collection of the Institute Bila Tserkva Vocational College of Service and Design

For anyone still wondering whether photography can truly be considered an art form, a visit to "Giovanni Gastel Rewind" in the heart of Brera will put all doubts to rest. Far from being a “minor art,” Gastel’s universe merges photography, poetry, and imagination into something that transcends genres. The exhibition at Palazzo Citterio — dedicated to the acclaimed photographer who passed away in 2021 — reveals a limitless creative mind that reached well beyond fashion, portraiture, and still life, the realms that first made his name.

On view until July 26, the retrospective brings together more than 250 photographs, videos, poems, writings, and personal objects, offering an intimate journey through Gastel’s world.

Over 250 authors, writers, publishers, bloggers, influencers, and journalists from the romance world will gather on March 7 at Superstudio MAXI for the sixth edition of the Festival del Romance Italiano, books that speak of love.

Romance, which might seem out of fashion these days, actually has a passionate and loyal audience that continues to grow. For them, this feeling remains an antidote to everyday negativity, a spark of hope, and a reason to keep believing and dreaming.