Fashion collaborations have become so constant they’ve lost their sense of occasion. Products alone don’t make a collaboration stand out anymore. What set the Simon Miller x Mango collaboration apart was the world built around it, and the experience that world created. And the dinner in Menorca was an invitation to step inside the collection itself. Set against the ancient Lithica Quarry, the evening brought food, fashion, and design into the same frame. It showed how thoughtful curation can shape product, experience, culture, and taste.
Setting the Stage at the Quarry
Chelsea Hansford, Simon Miller’s CEO and creative director, described her vision simply. “I pictured an eclectic fisherman living in a mosaic house under the sea,” she told Vogue. The collection translated that idea into material form: crochet textures, coral-inspired jewelry, and swimwear in hues that carried Mediterranean heat. Each piece suggested summers lived fully—sun-bleached afternoons, salt-stiff linens, spontaneous plunges into the sea.
“We have this Mediterranean approach,” Mango creative director Justi Ruano told Coveteur. The Lithica Quarry in Menorca carried that spirit. Its weathered stone walls and sharp industrial lines gave the dinner its structure. A bright burnt-orange sun was projected across the surface, while tables painted in Saint Laurent Majorelle Blue punctuated the pale ground. The staging blended the quarry’s raw form with modern, organic shapes, turning the setting into part of the story.
Food, Music, and Cultural Blueprint
Every detail was considered. Menorca’s Sa Llagosta served seafood on custom ceramics by local artisan Blanca Madruga. Cuatro Cuartos Comunicación handled logistics with polish while preserving the raw spirit of the place. Under the open sky, Mango Girls Blanca Miró and Nuria Val joined brand friends and Mango Men to share Menorcan dishes that tasted of sea spray and tradition. As dusk deepened, DJ Pascal Moscheni filled the quarry with rhythm, followed by a performance from Maria Arnal that echoed against the limestone walls.
The dinner marked the beginning of chin chin magazine. It was a moment of recognition—showing how food, fashion, and design, when brought together with careful curation, create moments that live on after the night itself has passed. These moments become reference points, blueprints, archives.
Photos from the evening continue to circulate, celebrated for their blend of rugged natural beauty and avant-garde fashion. London-based stylist and brand consultant Lucy Williams called it “dinner on another planet” on Instagram—a line that captured the surreal, lasting resonance of the night.
One evening in Menorca changed how we see collaborations forever. It became the starting point for chin chin magazine, and the first of many stories we will continue to tell at the intersection of food, fashion, and culture.