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Humanities
Pride and the market: when activism becomes a product line
From Stonewall to the seasonal capsule collection, corporate Pride branding has transformed queer politics into a purchasable identity — the fashion industry, from Loewe to Saint Laurent, is still negotiating the terms
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The Art Field
Diagrams: there is no such thing as an innocent map
From W.E.B. Du Bois to algorithmic dashboards, diagrams have long shaped the way societies classify knowledge, produce consensus, and visualize power. Cornelia Mattiacci and Giulio Margheri discuss the research developed by AMO/OMA for DIAGRAMS
Fashion
Humble luxury or quiet luxury? The loudest thing you can do is nothing
Quiet luxury performs restraint. Humble luxury performs virtue – whispering "I don't care" loudly: status is now defined by the coherence of one's position – not its visibility – which brands will endure?
Tech
What “bionic” really means in prosthetics, according to Ottobock’s Corrado Polzoni
Corrado Polzoni, head of prosthetics at Ottobock, redefines bionic not as added power but as reduced cognitive load — the point where a prosthesis stops demanding attention and becomes part of the body
Crafting
Maya Stepper: shaping silver between body and autonomy
From modeling to metal, Maya Stepper moves from being seen to shaping her own form, where material, memory and instinct define a practice rooted in reclamation and transformation
Magazine
Fashion
Why you so obsessed with me? An encyclopedia of fashion obsessions
From Luna Rossa and Triple S to the Baguette and Dior's Saddle Bag, an encyclopedia of contemporary fashion obsessions — examining how repetition, visibility, and circulation build desire
Sex
Hunger and sexual desire are regulated by the same system of norms
Diet culture controls not just what you eat and who you are – from Naomi Wolf's Beauty Myth to algorithmic surveillance on Instagram and TikTok, the body is always on trial
Fashion
Fashion creativity needs constraints to move forward
When fashion can no longer expand through excess, it turns inward: constraints on materials, production, and image become the new territory where creativity proves its intelligence and its force
Forestry
91530 Le Marais: one hemp farm near Paris is using culture to save the soil
Fifty kilometres from Paris, 91530 LE MARAIS is turning hemp fields into exhibition spaces — and asking whether art might be the most powerful tool we have for saving the soil
Humanities
We are afraid of losing images: photography in the digital age with Xiaopeng Yuan
From failed iPhone backups to printed photobooks, Xiaopeng Yuan explores the instability of digital memory and questions what remains when images become data stored inside endless archives
Music and Performance
A body that refuses style: Ohad Naharin and the Engine of Gaga
Inside Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin pushes Gaga beyond technique – 30% power, radical control, repetition and chaos forging a body that refuses style
Naturally Sourced
Wood in a circular economy: reclaimed teak to give discarded wood a second life
From Mumbai to Umbria, Baro Design and Laquercia21 turn reclaimed wood into contemporary furniture—proof that sustainability can be built from scraps, not mass production
Lifestyle
Galib Gassanoff: structure is not a style, it is a position
A conversation on discipline, cultural memory, and why a designer who knows how to cut a dress has less and less space in an industry that moves too fast to notice
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Digital Intelligence
Peace as infrastructure: how finance and AI could redesign stability
War is economically convenient for specific actors — only by making peace equally profitable, through AI diplomacy and new financial instruments, can the system change. From Tech Emotion Summit 2026
Lampoon Issue 33
Music and Performance
Clara Hastrup: the artist wiring living systems into kinetic sculptures
Clara Hastrup’s fish machine sculptures transform aquariums into instruments, using light beams and DIY electronics to test autonomy, intention and control
Fashion
Back to the Antwerp Six: independence reshaped fashion once, why not today again?
Emerging in the 1980s, a group of six designers introduced a model of independent, designer-led fashion that shifted the industry from trend driven systems to authorial practices
Fashion
Fashion underdogs: the time has come for a revolution
A violent aesthetic built on cuts and lacerations that critics would lazily reduce to the label "Hiroshima chic" – but Kawakubo was excavating something far deeper – the realm of the unconscious
Sex
Music and Performance
The Nightclub Crisis: we dressed to get laid – now we swipe
Once the outfit was the search query and the door was the filter - now the algorithm sorts desire, and the club uniform survives only as a costume to photograph. How to explain the nightclub crisis?
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Italia
Moda
Hermès, 166 New Bond Street – la parola negozio è ancora adeguata?
La nuova apertura di Hermès a Londra, al civico 166 di New Bond Street: paglia, crine di cavallo, mattoni di vetro e lo spirito punk degli anni Settanta
Design e Architettura
Nanda Vigo credeva negli extraterrestri e in altre galassie
Between cosmic abstraction and material discipline, more than ever Nanda Vigo is a reference for every contemporary approach: experimental, ironic, and pioneering
Tracciabilità
Il progetto SPARE rilancia la canapa in UE per prefabbricati e materiali biobased
Pannelli prefabbricati, compositi e segnaletica stradale: il modello europeo che punta a fare della canapa industriale un materiale da costruzione competitivo, dalla coltivazione al montaggio in cantiere
Sessualità
Il cruising Milano: storia, luoghi e scomparsa del battuage gay
Dalle aree industriali dismesse al Parco Sempione, dai Navigli alla Darsena: Milano ha cancellato i luoghi del battuage, svenduto una cultura definita dall’incompatibilità con il sistema
Arte
A Venezia, Canicula sfida le regole della videoarte
Fondazione In Between Art Film porta all'Ospedaletto di Venezia otto nuove opere video commissionate che lavorano su luce, suono e spazio: Alessandro Rabottini racconta la fine della Trilogia delle incertezze
Moda
LVMH, Chanel – perché i grandi gruppi stanno comprando gli artigiani italiani?
Può sembrare una nuova forma di colonizzazione – ma ci sono riscontri positivi, e tutele maggiori: una riflessione sul distretto manifatturiero italiano, il nostro patrimonio
Letteratura
Il romanzo culto di Gavin Lambert che aspettavamo da 50 anni 
Tra lavender marriages, party segreti e Hollywood al tramonto, il romanzo culto di Gavin Lambert esce per la prima volta in Italia: Allora arrivederci è un viaggio nella California queer e disillusa
Sopralluoghi
L’imperfezione non è decorativa. McIntosh tra Napoli e Milano
Robbie McIntosh, fotografo documentarista tra Napoli e Milano, racconta Champion Youth: una crew skate, la fotografia analogica con Leica M., e la differenza tra una città epidermica e una verticale
Arte
Impegno civile
Oasi Zegna: una fabbrica di lana ha piantato 100mila alberi – dentro, l’arte
Tra Biellese e Valle Cervo, Fondazione Zegna intreccia riforestazione, manifattura tessile e arte contemporanea: dalla mostra di Chiara Camoni agli interventi di Buren e Signer
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The Publishing Industry
Capturism Studio Paris: a photography bookstore café without a photographer
In Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Capturism Studio introduces a self-photography system where users create their own images inside a pre-designed studio, integrating photobook retail, café and exhibition space
Exhibitions
Smell reaches the brain before you think. Olfactory Signals builds on that
OS.03 opens at 10 Corso Como on June 4: thirty-plus makers, a rooftop by Sissel Tolaas and Octave Perrault, and a program that treats the olfactory pathway as a medium in itself
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Perfumes
Oriental
How Amouage builds a fragrance around perfumery’s most elusive flower
With Love Hibiscus, Amouage adds a fifth chapter to its Secret Garden collection — pairing one of perfumery's most structurally elusive flowers with a caramelized pastry accord
Oriental
Ānti: perfume begins with sweat and salt – not flowers
While presenting the fragrance Paura dell’Acqua, the founders of Ānti took us through the chronology of the brand, from the Egyptian “sweat of the gods” to plague-era opulence – how scent can react to heat?
Woody
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
Oriental
Aedes de Venustas brings 1990s New York back into the present
Rooted in the history of a real 1990s East Village bar, Café Tabac by Aedes de Venustas translates a New York atmosphere into scent, combining tobacco, resin, fruit and smoke in a composition created with perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour
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Hemp
Textile Fibers
Manila Hemp is better known as Abaca Fiber: what is it?
The Sustainable Alternative to Glass Fiber: Manila Hemp (aka Abaca Fiber) - tensile strength, seawater resistance it’s willing to surpass hundreds of millions by 2030
Naturally Sourced
Hemp for the future: here’s why one plant can change everything
From ancient civilizations to climate-resilient futures, hemp is the sustainable, regenerative crop that touches every aspect of our lives – from agriculture to architecture, wellness to wearable tech
Lampoon Issue 33
Crafting
Can hemp become a fragrance, or is it still just raw material?
Canapa N318 by LabSolue uses Cannabis sativa L. as an olfactory raw material, isolating terpenes through low-yield distillation and integrating them into a controlled formulation system
Crafting
Why Hemp matters in contemporary art: Nancy Jiseon Kwon and Sambe
Nancy JiseonKwon has incorporated ramie, called mosi (모시), and hemp, called sambe (삼베), into her fabric scrolls and ceramic sculptures, often using threads to create her own textiles
Naturally Sourced
Hempcrete: the building material that sequesters CO₂
How hemp could become a game changer in the construction industry: a smaller footprint than traditional concrete and the ability to sequester CO₂ for up to one hundred years
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