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For GRAU, light has never just been functional — it’s emotional, architectural, and often deeply personal. At Milan Design Week, the German brand’s latest collection brings this vision into sharp focus. Across three distinctive settings, GRAU unveils new iterations of its most recognisable lights alongside entirely new designs — each one building on the brand’s growing archive while pushing further into atmosphere, feeling, and form.

“We always talk about light as a language,” says Timon Grau, who, alongside his brother Melchior Grau, serves as Creative Director at GRAU. “With this collection, we wanted to go deeper into that idea — how light can change a space, a mood, even your sense of time.”  

The presentation itself played with rhythm and stillness, inviting visitors into a series of rooms that slowly shifted in tone. Lights dimmed, glowed, and shifted hue across subtle gradients. “It’s very ambient,” Melchior Grau adds. “You see the light changing, but it’s never shouting — it moves in the background, shaping everything around it.”

Among the highlights is the updated Parrot Floor, now available in a polished finish and wired version. Its 360° rotating head has been re-engineered for smoother movement and features a new integrated reading lens. “It looks familiar, but nothing is the same,” says Timon. “That was the challenge — to keep what people love, but refine every detail.”

Parrot Table, newly introduced, brings the same flexibility to desks, sideboards and nightstands. A dynamic mood-setter, it can bounce light off a wall or deliver clean brightness for focused work. “All the lamps in this collection come with the same control logic,” Melchior explains. “So wherever you are, you know exactly how to use them. Just plug and play.”

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Also new: Fire Table and Fire Floor — cord-powered lamps made from anodised aluminium and hand-blown glass. “They’re about stillness,” says Timon. “The kind of light that’s there not to be looked at, but to make you feel better in the space.” With a range from 2700K down to 1100K and GRAU’s signature Sunset Dimming, the lights mimic the warmth of a late evening fire.

Other updates include Falling in Love, now with new dimming technology and a soft Light Blue finish, and Salt, now offered in a polished version that reflects light in a whole new way. And then there’s Campfire — a glowing, 160cm sculptural statement that started as an art piece and now finds its place in foyers, showrooms and lofts.  

“We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel every time,” says Melchior. “But we do like to go deeper — to build on what’s already working, and make it more refined, more emotional.” That balance runs through every product in the collection. “It’s easy to over-design,” Timon added. “What’s harder is to create atmosphere, and still keep it intuitive. Something you want to live with.”  

Throughout the installation, visitors were invited to sit, linger, and experience how different light settings changed their own perception. “We wanted it to feel like a space you’d actually live in,” says Melchior. “Not a showroom, not a tech display — but a home, with light that listens to you.”

The collection is united not just by its shared materials (all aluminium) and light spectrum (blue-free, sleep-supporting), but also by a sense of calm purpose that Timon explains as GRAU’s mission. “What we try to do is be clear in the message, but still open — playful and poetic. That’s where we want our light to live.”

Discover all GRAU’s latest products here.

photography. GRAU
words. Gennaro Costanzo

It’s Milan Design Week, and for the occasion, Jimmy Choo trades movement for stillness in a new collaboration. For Salone del Mobile, the luxury accessories brand teams up with Crosby Studios to present a striking new installation inside its Sant’Andrea flagship store — an architectural pause that invites viewers to rethink the pace of design.

At the centre of the space is a leg-height glass capsule created by Crosby Studios founder Harry Nuriev. Inside, a curated selection of Jimmy Choo shoes appears suspended in time: iconic archival designs sit alongside 3D-printed replicas, forming a quiet, sculptural timeline. The effect is subtle but deliberate, like a runway frozen mid-stride.

Visible from both inside the boutique and the street outside, the installation draws from Creative Director Sandra Choi’s own archive, presenting key pieces from the brand’s history. By placing them in dialogue with digitally reproduced forms, the project plays with the tension between permanence and reinvention.

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“For me, the challenge is always to transform familiar spaces and objects into something new,” says Nuriev. “With this project, I wanted to take a commercial store and turn it into a temporary exhibition, a space that would exist for just one week but leave a lasting impression.” Sandra Choi echoes this sentiment: “The concept plays with the idea of timelessness, a study that underscores the art form of our creations over the years to be spotlighted.”

The collaboration marks the latest chapter in an ongoing creative dialogue between Jimmy Choo and Crosby Studios, which began in 2023. Running from April 8 – 13, the installation opens with an intimate in-store cocktail event co-hosted by Choi and Nuriev.

photography. Felipe Cordeiro, Jimmy Choo
words. Gennaro Costanzo

Diesel’s Remaster capsule is a tribute to the deep, often personal link between music and fashion. Under Glenn Martens’ direction and in collaboration with NTS Radio, the brand hands the mic to 15 DJs from across the globe — each one selecting a garment and printing it with a quote tied to a track that changed everything for them.

There’s Charisse C, the Zimbabwean-born, London-based DJ known for spotlighting Black electronic music heritage; Physical Therapy from New York, blending chaos and catharsis; Slim Soledad, bringing São Paulo’s ballroom energy to Paris; Venetta, channeling Berlin’s queer club scene along with fellow Berlin-based artist LSDXOXO; and many more contributors. Every garment reflects the individual behind it, embodying the power of a single track to reroute a life.

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Visually, Remaster pulls from the archives of tour merch and Diesel’s own design language. Sheer tanks, distressed denim, sweatshirts, miniskirts and deconstructed dresses come layered, devoré-treated or in punchy Pop colours. Streetwear meets stage-wear essentially. Accessories include updated versions of the Play bag, a new pair of Trini-D-Y sunglasses made with EssilorLuxottica, and stomp-worthy footwear like the Lake clear mule and the D-Shock boot.

But that’s not all. On April 12, Diesel heads to Shanghai for an eight-hour public festival. The tour continues in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, bringing club nights and exclusive performances to each city.

The capsule is available now online and in select stores.

photography. Sophie Jones
words. Gennaro Costanzo