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Fashion
Sander Lak: navigating the industry with deadstock and smaller scale production
A conversation with Sander Lak on leaving Sies Marjan, exploring work beyond fashion, and returning with a label built on deadstock fabrics and creative independence
Magazine
Lampoon Issue 30
Amanda Murphy for Lampoon 30 – Raw Love Making
Amanda Murphy covers Lampoon #30, The Raw Issue. Photography Stini Roehrs, styling Caro Jin Park
Fashion
Fashion Fall 2025: creativity must be constrained
If creativity cannot expand on the surface, it descends into the depths. Limits and constraints are needed, to improve the proceed with a responsible design: analysis, examples, chronicles, and references
Fashion
Matthieu Blazy at Chanel: What Does It Mean?
A creative director and some consistency: is Matthieu Blazy ready to redefine the visual narrative of Chanel? A story of craftsmanship, material research, and a less ephemeral idea of celebrity – live at the Grand Palais
Sex
Sex toys for straight men: even hard boys want to play
Once grooming and skincare defined the so-called metrosexual—today, straight men embrace sex toys as tools for self-exploration and intimacy. From Sonia Rykiel’s duck-shaped vibrators to Harry Styles’ Pleasing Yourself
Fashion
The art of exit: fashion designers writing their final chapter
From Sunnei’s auction-like finale to Alexander McQueen’s silent salon and Tom Ford’s boardroom battle: each exit reshaped not only a personal career but the direction of entire fashion houses and the industry itself
Humanities
Jack Johnstone: the Bauhaus school between esotericism and mathematical rigor
Inspired by the German school of design, Bauhaus, British photographer Jack Johnstone brings back the human body as a constitutive element of theater and performance
Naturally Sourced
Clean energy: why mining for EVs and renewables is dirtier than we think
The environmental impact of EV mining: Vince Beiser explains the invisible supply chains, hidden machines, and raw materials behind smartphones, EVs, and modern life
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Cattail: the wetland plant can restore Dutch peatlands and provide fiber for textiles
As the Dutch countryside sinks into clay-rich peat, Studio RietGoed turns resilient cattail into a dual solution—restoring waterlogged soils while developing plant-based textiles for tomorrow’s fashion
Call To Action
From biomimicry to bureaucracy: fashion faces the EU deforestation audit
From December, the EU deforestation regulation will require traceability for leather, viscose, and rubber. If biomimicry has been moodboard language, now every inspiration must come with evidence
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Italia
Filiera Italiana
Giacomo Bistrot – un salotto di Milano per nuova imprenditoria e ristorazione a filiera corta
Una conversazione con Carola Rovati che, tramite il fondo di investimento famigliare, ha rilevato la completa proprietà di Giacomo nel 2023: oggi 11 ristoranti e 200 dipendenti
Moda
La Moda nel 2025: la creatività si deve imporre limiti e regole
La creatività non si espande in superficie, ma scende in profondità. Limiti, restrizioni, regole – sono tecnica per nuova abilità di design: niente sintetico, solo fibra naturale: che sia finalmente futuro?
Moda
Matthieu Blazy da Chanel: che cosa significa?
Un direttore creativo che incarna equilibrio e consistenza: Matthiew Blazy è pronto a ridefinire il racconto visivo di Chanel la Grand Palais? Una storia di rigore manifatturiero, ricerca sui materiali e una visione meno effimera della celebrità
Sopralluoghi
Castello di Postignano: la rinascita di un borgo medievale in Umbria
Tra le colline della Valnerina, il Castello di Postignano racconta la sua rinascita: abbandonato dal 1963, devastato dal sisma del 1997, vincolato come monumento nel 2004 e oggi restituito alla comunità (internazionale)
Design e Architettura
Rock the Craft: artigianato vivo dentro Palazzo Fendi Milano
Edoardo Piermattei lavora il cemento pigmentato a sac à poche e gli artigiani traducono il gesto in pelle e pelliccia, trasformando residui di collezioni passate in borse Peekaboo Made-to-Order
Design e Architettura
Campeggi porta nel giardino di San Pietro in Gessate 24 sedie pieghevoli in tessuto
Non una rassegna cronologica, ma un mosaico di storie: Davide Biancucci racconta Soft Fold, la mostra di Campeggi che esplora la genealogia delle sedie pieghevoli in tessuto
Moda
Fashion Trust: designer emergenti, algoritmo e la crisi del sistema Wholesale
Umberta Gnutti Beretta e Warly Tomei entrano in alcuni dettagli sulle operatività del Fashion Trust di Milano: dall’assistenza legale alla collaborazione con Linea Pelle
Design e Architettura
Formafantasma e l’approccio scomodo di Trimarchi e Farresin: il vetro
Formafantasma: il vetro e un libro sulle miniere di carbone. Andrea Trimarchi e Simone Farresin si interrogano sul ruolo del designer, tra l’elogio dell’imperfezione e la critica del sistema industriale
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Perfumes
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Solsequium, the sun’s own flower: Ffern Summer 25
A fragrance house rewriting the codes of perfumery, where scarcity is the new abundance and a summer sunset an eternal dream
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Diptyque Re-lights the Neon of the Orphéon
More than half a century later, Diptyque has returned to that ember-lit cradle of its creativity, transforming memories of sax riffs and swirling cigarette ribbons into a limited-edition collection that puts the club’s name, Orphéon, in lights once again
Fashion
When the Gong Rings: Floraïku Turns Afternoon Tea into Perfume
Floraïku’s latest eau de parfum traces the arc of a gong strike, echoing the mindful swell and release of afternoon tea rituals—each moment sweetened by the allure of traditional dorayaki
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Byredo’s Blanche Absolu: scent as structure
Byredo expands its olfactory language with Blanche Absolu, a fragrance that explores the tension between softness and structure through intensified florals, musk, and texture
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Reader
design
Lake Como Design Festival: waste, work, and the life of materials
The seventh edition of Lake Como Design Festival examined waste, material honesty, and circular practices, showcasing how designers rethink resources today
athens
Athens’ Hyper Hypo and the unfinished business of independent publishing
In a city where economic crises have erased much of its printed culture, Hyper Hypo works without a business plan, without trend reports, and without the safety of predictable sales
The Publishing Industry
Aedicola Lambrate, reclaiming Milano: a micro-publisher to help the city 
Aedicola is an independent newsstand and micro-publisher fostering print culture, civic engagement, and community life in a rapidly transforming Milan The newsstand as a space of cultural resistance in the face of gentrification and real estate pressure GDM: Where did the idea for the newsstand project come from, and what past experiences led you to […]
Lifestyle
Mediterranean Canvas: How CAN Ibiza Paints a New Identity for the Island
As the 2025 edition closes, the fair’s founding curator Saša Bogojev reflects on four years of building a boutique art platform that resists aesthetic clichés and champions global relevance
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Hemp
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Hempcrete: the only building material which can sequester CO2
How hemp can become the game changer in the construction and building industry: a look into hempcrete and what it means for future structures
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What is a purpose-driven economy? Definition, meaning of each contemporary work
Running a business means giving profit to the owner and workers, as well as the community and the area where the business grows: purpose economy is a successful strategy for 2024
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Hemp Kamiko: Issey Miyake and the Japanese Craftsmanship
Under the creative direction of Satoshi Kondo, Issey Miyake pays tribute to the kamiko fabric tradition, made from fine hemp fibers and Japanese paper
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100% female Hemp plants – the future is here 
One of the most versatile and sustainable plant, hemp could explore mass production entry with NWG’s AMPLIFY hybrid trait fostering hemp populations with up to 100% female plants
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Every H is always for Hemp – Maren Krings says it loud: it’s all about Hemp
Maren Krings’ book H is for Hemp investigates industrial hemp: phytoremediation, carbon sequestration, and its potential in sustainable manufacturing practices
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