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Los Angeles

Rebirth of the coffee table book – Maison Plage creates a space to escape and inspire

A destination for crafted, rare, and lifestyle books – Founder Kelly Croteau reveals that Maison Plage is more than just a bookstore, it’s a brand

Estelle Lesault

Humanities, Lampoon Issue 22

Ovum – family, circularity, rebirth. Artists ponder the meaning and shape of eggs

The recurrence of a process marks the sign of rebirth as art imitates life in his rendition of the egg. Six artists share their own visions of Ovum

Editorial Team

Collections, Dior

Gathering artisans and craftsmen to give rebirth to the identity of a nation

Maria Grazia Chiuri staged the Dior Cruise show 2021 at the Piazza del Duomo in Lecce, a town in the southern Italian region Puglia. The show paid tribute to the region’s artisans

Lilly Meuser

Perfumery

Amouage, Purpose: Quentin Bisch enhancing the freshness of Omani frankincense

The tree is a visual metaphor for what the perfume expresses on an olfactory level, playing on the contrast and duality between smoky, resinous, warm, and woody notes and other fresher ones

Mariangela Peci

The Publishing Industry

Sharing life with a 100 kg pig: Feng Li’s human-animal friendship

Note Note Edition’s latest photographic book. The intellectual humor of Chinese photographer Feng Li and his strange relationship of friendship with his pig rescued from a tragic fate

Agnese Torres

Lampoon issue 28

Future archeology – Louis Vuitton Resort 24, the show took place at the Isola Bella

Speaking of womanity. An aquatic to botanical collection, leaving the land to reconnect with the plant kingdom. The images by Alice Rosati and a fashion review by Lampoon Editor in Chief

Carlo Mazzoni

Tuscany

Mater: a mother, a matrix, a vegetative womb

In the Sacre Forests of Casentino, Tuscany, chef Filippo Baroni and Marta Bidi assume the roles of Custodians, offering a monastic hospitality intertwined with sacred recipes in their Mater restaurant

Editorial Team

Turin

C2C Festival Turin, 2023: thirty-six artists and thirty-one shows

In 2002 «we felt it was time to create a network. We had the idea to map the city through its clubs. We imagined Turin as a dance floor: with a single ticket you were able to move from club to club»

Editorial Team

Los Angeles

The Kosher News: the biggest newsstand in Los Angeles by Erez Da Costa

Community building at The Kosher News: «We believe in second chances. We have always given a chance to our employees, even if they were previous drug addicts or alcoholics» Erez Da Costa says

Estelle Lesault

Berlin

Berlin Atonal, an ‘underground operation’ of the 80s turned into a music festival

Berlin Atonal started ‘DIY’ in a reaction to popular music of 1980s: a ‘hallucinatory sight program’, presenting pop, punk, new wave, it «was not meant to be digested in a gallery context»

Debora Vitulano

Reportage

Ortigia Sound System – the island’s renovation and the Tropicalization of the Mediterranean

How has the island of Ortigia in Sicily changed thanks to a redevelopment plan and the birth of both cultural projects, headed by the Ortigia Sound System? A reportage

Agnese Torres

Dior

Dior’s feminist deployment marks Cruise 2024 show in Mexico

The French brand lands in Latin America to rediscover traditions and urges through the evocation of the figure of Frida Kahlo

Chiara Narciso

Reggio Emilia, the art field

Europe Matters: Walter Guadagnini discusses Fotografia Europea 2023 in Reggio Emilia

The program also includes OFF circuit, the free and independent section of Fotografia Europea enriched by the initiative of individuals, galleries, associations and public and private institutions

Eugenia Pacelli

Tuscany

Hypermaremma 2023 explores the relationship between time, nature and humanity

The 2023 edition of the Tuscan festival features international artists Virginia Overton, Claudia Comte and Giovanni Gallo with three site-specific installations

Debora Vitulano

Canali, Lampoon Issue 22

Canali: «creating a suit or a jacket is like making pieces of anatomy»

Stefano Canali on the history of the family, the factory and the years he spent there as a child, as well as the priority he was taught to always give to the human handmade

Nicola Baroni

Lampoon issue 27, palermo

Black Palermo, White Palermo – a Sicilian story with Vanessa Beecroft

Palazzo Abatellis played host to VB94, a performance by Vanessa Beecroft: hieratic movement between statues and models dressed in white created in her Los Angeles studio

Cesare Cunaccia

crafting, Design

Art-blankets: Loads of Lines – the RedDUO: Fabiola Di Virgilio and Andrea Rosso

Following on their first clay collection Third Eye, the designer duo composed by Fabiola Di Virgilio and Andrea Rosso, presents fifty hand-made and hand-painted blankets made of deadstock fabrics

Agnese Torres

Collections, gucci

Gucci returns to the catwalks for the men collection: there’s no sign of Alessandro Michele

Essential and devoid of esoteric narratives, does Fall Winter 2023 prepare for the arrival of a new creative director or mark the ultimate return to heritage?

Chiara Narciso

Chanel, Collections

Chanel and Kristen Stewart: an attempt to revere cinema is about costume design

Virginie Viard revises Alain Resnais’s L’Année Dernière à Marienbad, presenting a short movie starring Kristan Stewart: she becomes the inspiration for the Spring 23 line

Maria Hristina Agut

Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton City Guide, Venice: 24 hours in Venice with Alberto Barbera

«Every Vuitton city guide is done the same way: the discourse is cultured and polite, with the addition of a little humor because we are French and we do it that way», Servane Giol explains

Simoné Esterhuizen

Perfumery

Carthusia, Capri. What does the most beautiful place in the world smell like?

Those who land on the island are dazzled by the light and surprised by the orography – but it is the perfumes that get you drunk. Carthusia fragrances encapsulate the essence of Capri

Matteo Mammoli

Collections

Collina Strada SS23 in New York: «from funky caterpillar era to full butterfly glow-up»

From post punk aesthetics to the romantic and rebellious revolution, Hillary Taymour Collina Strada presents a co-ed show in the Brooklyn greenway setting

Chiara Narciso

Humanities

Fostering creative play at all ages – Louise Follain is the Editor-in-chief at Combo Magazine

Editor-in-chief of Combo Magazine Louise Follain shares her inspiration, goals and future along with the publication’s origin story: from idea to print magazine. Each issue features creative content from recipes to games to photo collages.

Molly Cohen

Design and Architecture, Exhibitions

At Nilufar Depot, former silverware factory, they ask for a design zeitgeist

Nina Yashar: «We want to represent nowadays zeitgeist, which is hardly anymore about single choices, but rather about abundance, heterogeneity, medleys, opposites meeting, mixing and dialoguing»

Agnese Torres

publishing industry

Flash Art – the avant-garde community edited by Gea Politi, Cristiano Seganfreddo

The wave of art radicalism in the 1960s founded a publication, a bulletin of information transformed into a journal of art literature and research: Gea Politi, Cristiano Seganfreddo

Matthew Burgos

Mexico City, The Publishing Industry

Hydra + Fotografīa, Mexico City. Three heads of the Hydra serpent in a CMYK color mode

The walls are white-washed, shelves work as canvas, and books as paintings and artefacts. The colors of the book-covers contrast with the walls, curated on shelves, that do not offer spines

Chetna Chopra

Florence

Dimora Palanca, Florence. A 19th century renaissance villa in Santa Maria Novella

Segments of the villa were brought back to life: «The architects worked very closely with the artisans – they wanted to bring the building as close as possible to what it originally was»

Chetna Chopra

Exhibitions

The art of attention: Margiela focuses on ‘subtle beings, neglected objects, unnoticed places and events’

Martin Margiela reflects on existentialism. A street billboard, a projector screen, the mould of one of the Torso sculptures, plastic packaging: the osmotic relationship between art and life

Elizabeth Germana Arthur

Humanities

The meaning of white in Iceland: a journey through the world of Tamara Ferioli

Tamara Ferioli’s artistic production is a visual diary of her life and inner world, connected to Iceland’s culture and natural landscapes

Agnese Torres

Exhibitions

Soft sides, ‘Body Heat’: homoeroticism unveiled, lust and intimacy by Spyros Rennt

«Lust is carnal: it eats you up, ties in with the body, and you do not have to like someone to feel lust for them» – Spyros Rennt showing the vulnerable part of human beings

Matthew Burgos

Humanities

Art Thou, Polimoda – best works selected by the curator Massimiliano Giornetti

Emotional awakening is the emblem of this collection and considers the new professionals as drivers in this respect through their visions

Chiara Narciso

naturally sourced, textile fibers

Samatoa – If silk isn’t the first natural microfiber, then lotus fiber certainly is

«We aren’t done discovering all of its properties». In conversation with Samatoa on the venture into the world of the lotus plant

India Gustin

Lampoon Issue 22, Marina Ballo Charmet

The empathetic gaze of Marina Ballo Charmet who captures The Fragility of a Species

Delivering a remembrance of what has been forgotten within our periphery Marina Ballo Charmet exposes the white noise of our mind

Matthew Burgos

fashion design

A childhood beguiled by hands weaving tapestries

We must learn from our antecedents. Fashion designer Cecilia del Carmen Juarez Balta embodies the meaning drawn from her roots and the memory of Peru

Richa Anand

Lampoon issue 23

Lampoon / Transition: the flesh, the body and the divine in pursuit of Anthropocene

In her photographs, performances and installations, Bianca Lee Vasquez forages and unravels the reverence nature holds among every living being

Matthew Burgos

call to action, Lampoon issue 23

Lampoon / Transition issue: the opposite of sustainable fashion is not fast fashion, it is Faust-fashion

Like in the drama of Faust, ambition seeks instant gratification: no matter the cost while pushing the payment ahead of us

Otto von Busch

bulgari, Jewelry

Mary Katrantzou is positive: every snake can become a butterfly

Economically powerful brands like Bulgari can provide crafting resources that usually are not available: nowadays, this should be the premise for every brand collaboration

Karolina Liczbinska

Slovenia

Galerija Fotografija, Slovenia. Photoshop is a dry and virtual dark room

The gallery-bookshop represents emerging and established Slovene and international-artists. Located on Levstikov street, in the capital city, it is spread across eighty-square-meters

Chetna Chopra

Alisa Vornhem, Bex Day, Lampoon issue 23

Lampoon / Transition – the ambiguity of our psychology

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand – photographer Bex Day and multiple personalities intertwine in a new series

Editorial Team

Collections, Fendi

In Fendi, craftsmanship lies in fur and leather: Kim Jones proceeding with a responsible sourcing

Instead of pushing on a new approach for Fendi, Kim Jones rifles through the archives of the house, observing what Karl Lagerfeld did and what Silvia Venturini Fendi has been doing

Matthew Burgos

Humanities, Lampoon Issue 22

Madre di Me – Gabriele Rosati. We born twice: tackling photography like the clay of a sculpture

A reflection on roles, context has become fluid and unlimited – Gabriele Rosati «If home brings family, then family could also be a place where one feels at home»

Editorial Team

Collections, Dior

The world through the eye of the needle: Dior’s narration on threads and texture

Dior returns to the runway with a show staged at Musée Rodin. A play on materiality which transformed the house’s embroidery into a performance

Cecilia Falovo

News

Tracing tradition and culture, through – roots sink in the earth, the taste of trunk

This journey through the history, culture and aromas of September, between rain water and the warmth of a fireplace, starts in the north on the shore of a hidden lake

Giulia Cangianiello