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The Art Field
Anthea Hamilton: Oil makes everything slippery – soap brought the idea back to earth
Anthea Hamilton reflects on the role of tactility in her installations, from quail eggs and bondage rope to plush pumpkins and perfume
Magazine
Cinema
Can cinema define itself as a sustainable and inclusive industry?
Inside the film industry’s green awakening: from solar-powered sets and recycled costumes to mentoring programs like Women in Film & TV and the BFI diversity standards
Architecture
Hygiene and the fracture of modernist architecture, Ignazio Gardella never designed through purity
Dispensario Antitubbercolare: Ignazio Gardella responded to political and hygienic pressures with calibrated disobedience, embedding spatial misalignments into a structure born of regulation
Music and Performance
Dafni Krazoudi: Guilty for Lampoon SOAP
The body stands as both witness and terrain: a shoot by Dafni Krazoudi and Spyros Rennt, echoing the performance GUILTY at OHM with MOLT in Berlin, tracing an archaeology of guilt both intimate and collective
High Jewelry
Lampoon: a bar of soap cut into squares for Tiffany & Co.
Lauren Bamford transforms Tiffany’s high jewelry into works of contemporary still life – coffee stains, soap cuts, and scuffed textures surround gold and diamonds
Humanities
Alex Dobé: what’s raw and unposed? We have to be pickier and more precise 
Photographer Alex Dobé’ captures what’s raw and unposed – in Paris, he stands out: There are a lot of avant-garde brands, but I’m not sure anyone is reshaping fashion on a large scale today 
Humanities
The meaning of lingerie in shaping female identity
From tights and bras to swimsuits and closets: lingerie as a lens to understand female identity, memory, whiteness, and the rituals passed down through generations. A performance by Charlotte Fourneuf-Niel
The Art Field
Maurizio Cattelan: Art is not a detergent. It doesn’t clean, it stains
An interview with Maurizio Cattelan: art shouldn’t wash anything away. I don’t want people leaving reassured or clutching a moral. If something sticks, let it be friction
The Art Field
Inside Mater, the Peruvian center blending ancestral knowledge and science
In Peru’s Sacred Valley, Mater studies native species and climate data to preserve ancestral agricultural knowledge. Photographer Gaia Anselmi Tamburini translates this research into a visual record
Humanities
The Architecture of the Body: Lampoon SOAP
A cinematic approach, documentary and fiction, photographer Naguel Rivero transforms fashion imagery into a meditation on form and distance –Lampoon SOAP
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Italia
Musica
Il marketing della nostalgia: Bruce Springsteen e la biopic fatigue
I biopic musicali continuano a far storcere il naso ai cinefili, ma attirano al cinema tutti gli altri. Tra miti storpiati e botteghino facile, Hollywood non molla la presa: è il marketing della nostalgia
Letteratura
Han Kang in Italia con Il libro bianco: un racconto di vita, morte e rinascita
Il libro bianco di Han Kang nasce dalla vita e dalla morte, dalla sorella che non ha vissuto e dalla città che è stata distrutta. L’autrice coreana per la prima volta dopo il Nobel al Teatro Dal Verme di Milano Han Kang e Il libro bianco: il significato delle due parole coreane per dire “bianco”, […]
Materiali Naturali
Ecomondo 2025: la transizione ecologica nelle sue applicazioni industriali
Dai sistemi energetici alla gestione dei rifiuti, dall’acqua ai materiali e alla mobilità: a Rimini, Ecomondo 2025 mostra pratiche e tecnologie oggi operative nella transizione ecologica
Musica
Che fine ha fatto la controcultura a Milano?
Dallo sgombero del Leoncavallo alla chiusura del Plastic, Milano sembra aver perso il suo cuore alternativo. I simboli della libertà e del disallineamento culturale cedono ai co-working sterilizzati
Arte
Cos’hanno in comune le mostre di novembre a Milano? Parlano di esoterismo
Dalle opere di Leonora Carrington alle installazioni di Fata Morgana, le mostre in corso a Milano che esplorano magia, stregoneria e pratiche ecofemministe come linguaggio politico e sociale
Materiali Naturali
Trenta centimetri al giorno: la Tessitura Bevilacqua racconta 150 anni di tessitura a mano
Dai telai del Settecento alla digitalizzazione dell’archivio, la manifattura fondata nel 1875 celebra un secolo e mezzo di attività con una mostra a Palazzo Venart e un libro che intreccia artigianato e contemporaneità
Tracciabilità
Whole Lotta Hemp vuole ricostruire in Emilia Romagna una filiera della canapa
Agricoltori locali, tracciabilità e usi industriali della fibra e del canapulo: la filiera della canapa di Whole Lotta Hemp, per la bioedilizia, i materiali industriali e l’agricoltura rigenerativa
Filiera Italiana
Canapa: la filiera italiana, l’industria del tessuto, fibra e filati, la bioedilizia e quanto altro
Canapa sostenibile: forse l’unica fibra tessile vegetale coltivabile in Italia – stigliatura e macerazione per una filiera locale per i tessuti, il cartario, l’edilizia, l’energetico
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HOTELS
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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
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
How Maison Margiela’s Replica Line Bottled Winter’s Essence
From Chamonix’s Snow-Covered Chalets to the Lab: By the Fireplace, part of the Replica collection, draws on the nostalgia of 1970s Chamonix, blending raw materials and alpine culture into a fragrance
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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Reader
The Publishing Industry
Santedicola: the rebirth of a Roman newsstand as a civic and cultural hub
Santedicola, Piazza Imola, Roma: Gaetano Orefice and an abandoned newsstand in San Giovanni district: a small-scale cultural hub, adaptive reuse and sustainable design
The Art Field
Found objects, fabrics, flesh: Art Basel Paris and the return of materiality 
From digital drift to material presence. How everyday matter became contemporary meaning. Art Basel Paris: a new stability
Food
Avril 50, Philadelphia. A time capsule of 1984 with magazines and journals
Established while he was completing his second master’s degree, Shahidi founded Avril 50 as a response to the lack of stores carrying magazine publications and academic journals that catered to students’ needs and wants
Smoke Signals, San Francisco. Two thousand reading materials sold at a time
«In French, smoke signals means signaux de fumée – communicating through smoke signals – how I see newspapers and magazines as a tool to share and disseminate information today»
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Hemp
Naturally Sourced
LOVR™, hemp-based leather: Revoltech’s commitment to upcycling hemp residues  
Founded by three friends, the German company Revoltech offers sustainable leather alternatives using hemp residues, contributing to a circular economy and winning multiple eco-awards
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Hemp biocomposites: food packaging solutions using hemp biomass
An international team of scientists studies the valorization of hemp biocomposites, revealing its potential in developing sustainable food packaging solutions
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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
Naturally Sourced
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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