Project name: Marni FW 26 runway set
Project type: Temporary installation
Location: Milan Fashion Week, Italy
Architect: Formafantasma
Photographers: Marco Cappelletti, Gregorio Gonella
The Marni FW 26 runway set by Formafantasma is the February Monthly Winner of the Shaping Surfaces competition by Cleaf.
The project reflects on how fashion operates within everyday life and how the format of the runway both frames and reshapes that reality.
The spatial concept is structured around a series of mirrored surfaces, partially hand-painted with fragments drawn from quotidian life: a car headlight, an office chair, leftovers on a table, a CCTV camera, an open tab on a computer. These elements are deliberately unremarkable. They point to peripheral details that accumulate in daily environments without demanding attention. By combining reflection and painting, the mirrors operate simultaneously as images and as spatial instruments. They register the presence of models and audience while superimposing ordinary scenes onto the unfolding event. The garments appear frontally, laterally, and in reflection closer to how clothing is encountered outside the runway, in passing or in peripheral view. The set does not function as a neutral backdrop, but as an active surface that brings the present moment into contact with familiar surroundings.
Architecturally, the structure suggests a domestic interior, Poro Noce LS53 wood effect frames and recognisable proportions, yet remains intentionally fragmented. It evokes a room that has been dismantled and reassembled out of sequence.