TheCube: Archivolution
TheCube Archive returns to Milano Unica with a visually striking and conceptually powerful installation. Last year's edition was entirely digital; this year’s is all analog. And human, to the extent possible, involving sight, touch, and memory. The pieces are to be seen, touched, and felt in their real presence.
The title? TheCube: Archivolution.
In Hall 4, a dedicated space presents 24 unique looks descending from the ceiling as a theatrical performance, inviting visitors to enjoy an immersive narrative experience made up of garments and connections. Each outfit reflects and reinterprets the FW 2026/2027 Tendenze — Performing Space, Performing Bodies, Performing Arts — and pushes the boundaries through cross-references, unexpected perspectives, and visual insights that have emerged after years of independent research.
The Performing Space is a narrative space in which reflective fabrics, smart materials, and science fiction-inspired surfaces merge to create new symbioses between body and the environment. The dialogue proceeds with the Performing Bodies putting the body at the center as a sculpture in motion, with structural padding, changing volumes, and hybrid silhouettes that shape an identity in constant transformation. Finally, the Performing Arts blend fashion, emotion, and performance in interactive pieces and touch and light-sensitive surfaces, for a deeply sensory experience.
The selected items (including original vintage pieces, special restyles, and exclusive creations) are the result of a long process of independent research, experimentation, and creative vision. Definitely not a simple exhibition, because the items are re-contextualized to suggest new potential expressions. The aesthetic is expressed through the materials, the craftsmanship/technology, and the form.
The key works -- the first two books CaosOrdinato and RitmoEmotivo – represent the starting point. Ten years after their first publication, browsing again through their pages does not mean looking back, but puts a vision back into circulation. A tribute comeback: using the looks to create connections, build possibilities, develop research, and design new creations.
TheCube: Archivolution is curated by TheCube Archive, an inspirational fashion archive that has been exploring ‘out of the box’ creativity since 2020 through art, music, design, and culture.
