Malo Presents Act of Embrace by Antoine Peters during Milan Design Week
On the occasion of Salone del Mobile, Malo unveils Act of Embrace, a site-specific installation that extends its language beyond the garment, positioning knitwear as both structure and spatial experience.
Presented at Galleria Rossana Orlandi, within the curatorial vision of Rossana Orlandi, the project is developed in collaboration with Antoine Peters, whose practice has consistently explored the garment as an expanded form, moving beyond its functional role to become spatial, relational and perceptual.
Through his ongoing research, Peters redefines clothing as a volumetric language. His “Space Garments” transform familiar elements of dress, sleeves, tubular constructions, twists into immersive textile structures that can be entered and experienced. In this context, the collaboration unfolds as a natural extension of Malo’s own approach to knitwear, where construction and materiality define both form and sensation.
At its core lies a precise articulation of Malo’s identity: knitwear understood not as category, but as language. Defined by construction, tactility and proximity to the body, this language is here transposed into space, where material and technique operate at an architectural scale. The installation is developed using existing Malo garments and recovered materials, extending their lifecycle through transformation rather than production, and reinforcing a continuity between past and present forms.
The Malo installation during Milan Design Week develops through enveloping, continuous volumes that retain a direct connection to the grammar of knitwear. Gauge, tension and construction remain legible, allowing material to define structure with clarity and discipline. Peters’ intervention does not abstract these principles, but amplifies them, extending knitwear into an environment that can be physically inhabited.
The notion of the embrace is approached as a condition rather than a metaphor. Knitwear exists in proximity: it protects, adapts and accompanies the body with precision. Here, that condition is expanded into space, transforming an intimate relationship into a collective, immersive experience. The visitor moves within a composition shaped by softness, continuity and controlled tension. This approach reflects a position grounded in reduction and clarity, where meaning is carried through material and construction rather than image. The installation does not seek spectacle, but coherence, allowing form and texture to articulate a consistent and disciplined narrative.
Malo installation during Milan Design Week Act of Embrace will be on view from April 21 to April 28, from 10am to 8pm.
ABOUT MALO, Founded in Florence in 1972, Malo embodies the excellence of Italian craftsmanship and the art of cashmere. For over five decades, the House has defined a discreet vision of luxury rooted in material integrity, precision and timeless design.Specialized in noble fibres and refined knitwear, Malo combines heritage and contemporary sensibility to create garments designed to endure.
ABOUT ANTOINE PETERS, Antoine Peters is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam, working at the intersection of fashion, art, and architecture. His practice uses fabric and clothing as spatial elements to explore the relationship between body, form, and environment. Garments are treated not as functional objects, but as materials that can be stretched, repeated, and reconfigured. Through accumulation and transformation, clothes move beyond the body, becoming structures that alter perception and reshape space. Rather than depicting the human figure directly, Peters evokes presence through gesture and scale. Faces are absent, allowing the work to remain open and inclusive, inviting the viewer to project themselves into the experience. For Peters, fabric is both intimate and architectural. It carries traces of the body while extending into the surrounding space, creating environments that encourage slowness, attention, and new ways of seeing.
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