Art, Fashion, and Toasts: Fondazione Furla’s Cocktail at the Gardens of Villa Reale
Beneath the centuries-old foliage of Villa Reale’s gardens, Fondazione Furla chose to celebrate Milan Fashion Week with a cocktail reception that wove together art, fashion, and landscape. The occasion? Under the Sun, Beyond the Skin, a solo exhibition by Sara Enrico curated by Bruna Roccasalva, which for the first time brings the collaboration between Fondazione Furla and GAM entirely outdoors, into the villa’s 18th-century park.
Enrico’s sculptures are set within the garden without seeking camouflage: synthetic forms, textile surfaces, and details evoking postures and bodily movements inhabit the space in tension with the vegetal realm, suggesting an artificial vitality in dialogue with the natural one. It is a “landscape within a landscape” that highlights the duality between nature and artifice, between spontaneous growth and deliberate gesture, transforming the green lung into an unstable scenography where every perspective becomes part of the work itself.
After the guided tour, guests—welcomed by Giovanna Furlanetto and Furla CEO Eraldo Poletto—raised their glasses among hedges and pathways, defying the whims of the weather in an atmosphere suspended between elegance and lightness.
Some attendees chose to carry bags from Furla’s FW25 collection or the new IT Bag Furla Iride in limited edition—studs and teddy in an even more playful version—confirming how a fashion object can converse, without hesitation, with the language of contemporary art.
In a week when Milan feels increasingly like a centrifuge, the GAM garden allowed itself the luxury of slowing down: a salon where the glass in hand mattered as much as the conversation, and where art served as a (cultured) pretext for one of the season’s most elegant cocktails.
Text: Germano D’Acquisto
Photos: Ludovica Arcero
