Dynamic duo: Lucie and Luke Meier on Jil Sander's new era

The designers' purity of vision is leading Jil Sander towards new and exciting horizons informed by the natural world

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(Image credit: photo: Federico Ciamei)

At Jil Sander's Milan headquarters, an unarranged medley of plants and seedlings grows in terracotta pots balanced along a balustraded balcony. There is a small flowering orange tree bearing miniature fruit, green-petaled hydrangeas, wild sage and spindly fountaingrasses with pale yellow blades.

By a nearby French window, sacks of compost are stored in an oval metal troth planter. The haphazard display is at odds with Jil Sander's streamlined home: comprising offices, showrooms and workshops, the brand's global nerve-centre occupies several floors of a 19th century palazzo and former theatre with views of the Renaissance Sforzesco Castle.

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