In Milan’s Isola district, we found a little world that feels almost at odds with the city around it. Isola Pepe Verde grew from an abandoned lot that local residents began reclaiming in 2010, transforming it into a shared garden, shaped more by care than by concrete. In 2013, it became Milan’s first officially recognised shared garden. 

The wall we found there seems to carry that same spirit. It doesn’t simply depict nature; it almost behaves like it. Pale branches and leaves drift across a deep blue background, colour settles like light, and everything seems to grow freely across the surface. What caught our eye was exactly that quietness. Tucked away from buzzing espresso machines, a thousand car horns and the melodic quarrels of everyday life, you almost forget you’re in Italy’s second-largest city. Just foliage, light and time, moving at their own pace. 

When translated into textiles, that little piece of Milanese nature starts moving again. The branches and foliage travel across the fabric, while the deep blues give the design its rhythm and depth. A garden that climbed a wall, and from that wall found its way onto something you can wear.