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Which is the best hotel in Italy? Beyond personal opinion
For ethical entrepreneurship, sustainability, and the good Italian lifestyle – it’s not about decoration, opinion, luxury, or marketing. It’s about the best hotel in Italy
Fondazione Lampoon
Fashion
Lazoschmidl: your grandmother’s print, your phone’s front camera
The most transgressive thing in menswear right now is a bathrobe worn out the door and a floral print that belonged to your grandmother – Lazoschmidl SS27 Daynight, Paris Fashion Week
Fashion
Veronica Leoni at Calvin Klein: sexitude and the narcissistic kink
The first woman to lead Calvin Klein Collection in sixty years, Veronica Leoni is rebuilding the source code, relocating desire from the camera's gaze to the architecture of the dressed body itself
Fashion
Between me and my Calvins: are we still so horny? 
To say "it's so Calvin" is a way of saying you are looking at someone undressed and being made to want it — and that the wanting is the point
The Art Field
Closeness is a fiction: Marie Tomanova shoots herself daily for a year
Three Empty Weeks in July – at Harkawik, New York, through July 11, 2026: a durational body of work shot on a Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6 implicates the viewer in a constructed fiction of closeness
Magazine
Fashion
Moda Ruvida – Prada doesn’t care, and that’s the whole point
Mrs. Prada and Raf Simons: fashion is just an attitude — a black leather jacket, a yellow square on the back, and nothing left to prove
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
Moda Ruvida: Paul Smith and his unsuitable situations, with some cultural irony
Tailored and relaxed clothes for inappropriate efforts — the Paul Smith show in Milan is still a compendium of sharp formality and broken youth
Design
Monument London: editing history through objects
Archival design presented with restraint: objects removed from context to reveal authorship, tension, and form. Based in London, Monument was founded by Leah Forsyth-Steel and Victoria Spicer
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
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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
Fashion
Hermès, 166 New Bond Street — can you still call it a store?
The new Hermès flagship in London: straw marquetry, horsehair, glass bricks, and the ghost of Seventies punk on New Bond Street
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Italia
Moda
Thom Browne SS27 a Milano: l’erotica della disciplina
Per decenni il completo grigio ha disciplinato il corpo maschile. Nelle mani di Thom Browne è una critica all’eteronormatività come dress cose. La Primavera Estate 2027 è un’operazione di sabotaggio al completo neutrale
Moda
Moda Ruvida: Paul Smith e le Unsuitable Situations, tra sesso e ironia
Abiti sartoriali e rilassati per situazioni poco idonee – la sfilata di Paul Smith è ancora un compendio formalità arguta e gioventù rotta
Moda
Moda Ruvida – il menefreghismo di Prada, ma quanto ancora rimane figo?
Signora Prada e Raf Simons – la moda è solo una questione di atteggiamento: un giubbotto di pelle nera, e sulla schiena un quadrato giallo
Lifestyle
A Milano, stringiamo tutti i denti – e ci facciamo male: Pietro Farè, osteopata
L'attività fisica diventa una forma di prevenzione dentro la cultura del corpo contemporanea – l'osteopata Pietro Farè interviene sulla gestione dello stress nella Milano della performance continua
Moda
Moda Ruvida: il Mediterraneo di Armani, tra bellezza e politica
Mercato Mediterraneo: il titolo della sfilata di Armani in Via Borgonuovo – la politica attuale e la cultura, Paolo Sorrentino in cortile, il rimando al film di Salvatores
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
Moda Ruvida – Ralph Lauren, gli artisti, un motoscafo da lago 
Ralph Lauren disegna abiti per uomini, così da aiutarli a esprimere la loro creatività – artisti, persone di buona creanza che ti porteresti a letto, dopo un giro in motoscafo lungo il lago
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
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READER
Biennale Venezia
The Publishing Industry
Fashion
Couture
Rupture Paris and Marseille: books, architecture and independent publishing between two cities
Rupture started a renovation that uncovered the original structure of Le Corbusier’s idea – they decided to use only glass, cement, and ceramic materials for the store
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Athens’ Hyper Hypo and the unfinished business of independent publishing
In Athens' Monastiraki district, Hyper Hypo combines bookselling, publishing and public programming, building a space dedicated to visual culture, independent magazines and contemporary publishing.
HOTELS
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Perfumes
Cinema
The red that changed everything: Baccarat Rouge 540
In 2014, Maison Francis Kurkdjian created Baccarat Rouge 540 as a limited edition of 250 bottles. A documentary now available on Prime Video reconstructs what happens when a perfume is taken seriously as a cultural object
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
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Hemp
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
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
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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