{"id":2328,"date":"2025-09-29T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurenhwhite.com\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:55:34","slug":"marc-newson-forges-landscape-of-colourful-pixels-for-fendi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurenhwhite.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/marc-newson-forges-landscape-of-colourful-pixels-for-fendi\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Newson forges landscape of colourful pixels for Fendi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Designer Marc Newson<\/a> has made his first foray into runway sets, combining blocks of 101 different colours into an undulating terrain to host Fendi<\/a>‘s Spring Summer 2026 presentation at Milan Fashion Week<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The set was designed to offer an abstract interpretation of one of the many flower prints featured in the fashion house’s latest collection under creative director Silvia Venturini Fendi.<\/p>\n

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Marc Newson has designed the set for Fendi’s SS26 show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This floral pattern was magnified beyond recognition and translated into a landscape of supersized pixels, used to form both the serpentine runway and the stepped seating that rises around it like sound bars.<\/p>\n

Newson<\/a> said he conceived the set as a testament to the “pure joy derived from colour”.<\/p>\n

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The set is composed of equally sized blocks in 101 different colours<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“This concept celebrates the primacy of colour: a preoccupation closely tethered to the image of Fendi,” the designer said.<\/p>\n

“The set represents a navigable plane of colour, where an inviting tactility and tone give form to an undulating, immersive landscape.”<\/p>\n

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These “pixels” were used to form stepped seating around a serpentine runway<\/em><\/p>\n

All of the blocks in the set are exactly the same dimensions \u2013 save for a few strategically placed steps \u2013 to create the impression of uniform pixels.<\/p>\n

Finished and upholstered in 101 different shades, they serve to blur the spatial boundary between where the show ends and the audience begins.<\/p>\n