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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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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
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
Magazine
Crafting
“I don’t want Petit h to have a style” — inside the Hermès workshop where materials lead the design
Founded in 2010 by Pascale Mussard in Pantin, Paris, Petit h transforms unused materials from Hermès’ sixteen métiers. In this interview, Godefroy de Virieu explains why materials come first
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
Crafting
Another Italian manufacturer credited as global taste maker: the history of Lozza eyewear
From a mill in Cadore to a global style code: Lozza is an eyewear brand that helped invent the Italian attitude —crafted in-house by historical manufacturer De Rigo
Reportage
Midnight sun: inside the arctic bubble where light dissolves time
Aliocha Boi leads us into an Arctic where night never returns and glaciers vanish quietly. How do we navigate a world that dissolves our senses and confronts us with its own disappearance?
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
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
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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
Lampoon Issue 33
Metamorphosis as fracture: Alexandra Alvarez Garcia for Lampoon MECCANO
From Kafka to the mechanical body, identity dissolves into systems of labor, alienation, and constructed selfhood – where the body becomes a site of tension between control and collapse
Fashion
Cruise collections: political ideology and the American visibility machine
As Cruise collections migrate toward American cities, the original logic of seasonal escape gives way to something harder to name
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Italia
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
Impegno civile
Milano Città Giardino: gli alberi sono una questione civile
Non sia più soltanto un’utopia – Milano Città Giardino è sì un utopia  ma anche una questione civile: si usa dire “occupati del tuo giardino”, ma se tutta la città fosse il tuo giardino?
Musica
Castello di Cigognola, otto secoli di storia e una notte di performance dal vivo
Per la prima volta aperta al pubblico, la rassegna ideata da Émilie Fouilloux porta nell'Oltrepò Pavese Petrit Halilaj, Yoann Bourgeois e il quintetto barocco Capriccio Armonico
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
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
Arte
I tre artisti che la New York degli anni Ottanta ha dimenticato
Fabio Cherstich riporta in scena tre artisti queer morti di AIDS negli anni Ottanta e Novanta, rimasti fuori dal mercato dell'arte newyorkese e sopravvissuti grazie alla custodia privata di amici e familiari
Milano Ruvido
Milano Ruvido, cronache da Corso Matteotti – parte 1
Un edificio della curia, il cantiere abbandonato di un club di Midtown, le palline nere degli antichi circoli, le persone serie e composte
Tracciabilità
Perché Ambienta investe nell’industria europea mentre i fondi ESG rallentano
Da Tech.Emotion Summit 2026. Nino Tronchetti Provera e Ambienta: dagli impianti per il recupero dell'acqua al riciclo del PET, le tecnologie che trasformano la sostenibilità in competitività industriale
Tracciabilità
Filiera tessile italiana ed EPR: chi sostiene i costi della transizione ecologica
Dalla progettazione al fine vita, la moda affronta norme europee, costi operativi e controlli sui subappalti: il nodo resta la distribuzione degli oneri lungo la filiera produttiva
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The Publishing Industry
Boutique de la Prensa, Madrid: the selling model is making the difference for the Boutique
An old press store is becoming a centre for independent international magazines, owner Antonio Torán recounts the publishing selling system in Spain
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
Lifestyle
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?
Naturally Sourced
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
Lifestyle
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
Lifestyle
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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