Ventura Lambrate is celebrating its fifth anniversary by bringing in the district emerging designers and the students of the most important academies of the world. For six days the shops, garages and sheds expose the best ideas of 2014. If you want to discover the true creativity, the one of the low cost prototypes, but also the inventiveness that has nothing to envy to the big names, this is the place you need to visit in the Milano Design Week.

Tortona Around Design has consolidated as the nerve center of the Fuorisalone. The big names patrol the neighborhood and have now almost evicted the young creatives. Nevertheless, the sources of inspiration are many and ateliers are competing to see who will be able to anticipate needs, changes, evolutions in the market and society.

Let's take a walk in Milan to see the images of Fuorisalone 2014 that struck me most.

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Let's walk around Ventura Lambrate Projects, Brera Design District and Tortona Design Week to discover the best creative minds and design trends. Armed with camera and curiosity we'll explore the three areas crucial to the Fuorisalone at Milano Design Week 2015.

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Not everybody knows that the most ancient carnival of the world is instead Italian, and it’s the up-till-now famous Carnevale di Venezia: the oldest Venetian document that references it, it’s dated 2nd May 1268 (more than 2 centuries before the discovery of the Americas). At that time, Venice was definitely the most amusing place of Europe, the carnival in fact lasted even 3 months; Venice was also in a certain sense, the most democratic place, the mask allowed everyone, also the low classes, to mix with the noble rank, protected by their disguises.

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When it comes to Milano Design Week, the Fuorisalone has now become the main stage.
Outside the institutional paths of the Salone del Mobile, it's on the Milan streets that you can experiment the innovative design. Surely it is less glossy, but looking in small boutiques, in converted garages and in the most unlikely spaces, you can find the real creativity.

Let's walk along the streets of Milan to explore the districts dedicated to design and let's collect in a photo gallery the most interesting objects.

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They were in the hundreds to watch the Daniela Colzani fashion show, a young Brazilian specialized in Fashion Design in Milan and winner of the 2010 European competition "The Link", organized by the Sea exhibition Fashion in Cannes.

Special testimonial at Old Fashion Cafè in Milan could only be the compatriot Queen of Rio Carnival, Ana Paula Evangelista.

Daniela Colzani draws, cuts and sewes couture corsets carrying on a process of exaltation of the female figure. Thus she achieves the aesthetic ideals that define a world that seems far away, but that sometimes resurfaces to make us understand that certain parameters remain constant. Although in recent years anorexic models walked the runway, the "squeezed" and "stretched" are always in the everyday.

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