Veuve Clicquot and Yinka Ilori unveil personalized champagne gifts for Milan Design Week

Yinka Ilori has given Veuve Clicquot a gift set that reads like a design object first and a Champagne accessory second. Unveiled on Friday, April 11, 2026, the Chasing the Sun collection arrives for Milan Design Week with a champagne bucket, a calabash-inspired Sun Totem bottle piece and a rectangular gift box that can be personalized to show the distance between a chosen destination and the house’s cellars in Reims, France.

That personalization is what makes the set feel worth the premium. A standard bottle travels well enough on its own, but this version is built for the moments when the gift itself needs to carry the occasion: a wedding, a housewarming, a milestone dinner or a collector’s shelf. The bucket, bottle and box work together as a ready-made presentation, with Ilori’s bold patterns, symbolic hands and radiant palette giving the package the kind of visual punch that makes a host keep the box long after the Champagne is gone.

Public programming will run at Mediateca Santa Teresa, Via della Moscova 28, Milan, from April 20 to 26, with an immersive installation, a Clicquot Café and a boutique selling the limited-edition objects. That broader rollout matters because Veuve Clicquot has long treated Champagne as a collectible medium, not just a pour, and this project extends that logic into summer entertaining and gifting season.

The brand’s yellow identity gives the collaboration historical weight. Veuve Clicquot’s yellow-label trademark was registered on February 12, 1877, and the maison still positions Yellow Label as its signature cuvée, balancing freshness, strength, aromatic richness and silkiness. Chasing the Sun is designed to complement both Yellow Label and Rosé, so the objects are not decorative extras but an extension of the bottle inside them.

Ilori tied the calabash form to his Nigerian heritage and his Nigerian-born parents, while Veuve Clicquot framed the project around “cultivating joy and optimism.” That pairing gives the collection a sharper emotional register than a typical branded collaboration. It is the sort of gift that suits someone who already buys beautiful wine, collects design pieces or wants a Champagne present that feels considered enough to stay out on display.