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Lampoon issue 28

Kicking traditions trough sustainability? Kasia Kucharska’s latex ensembles

Ornament is crime: Kasia Kucharska talks with Lampoon about fashion, architectural background and the next step of the sustainable textile industry – with Latex

Anna Roos van Wijngaarden

call to action

The Japan Meteorological Agency: how is arctic warming linked to East Asia?

The Japan Meteorological Agency: the city of Mohe close to the Russian border, recorded its lowest temperature, minus 53 degrees Celsius, on January 2023

Editorial Team

cape town

Crafting conversations, tradition and innovation in Cape Town: Southern Guild

Despite the geographical distance, Southern Guild aims to promote African art around the world. The next step for Trevyn and Julian McGowan is opening a gallery in Los Angeles

Cristian Tonea

Reportage

Heat decreases productivity: climate change and job loss, Indian textile industry

It will get worse for people living and working in cities. Heat rises and climatic events put jobs, and people’s safety at risk. The system must adapt. The case of India

Matilde Moro

call to action

Pollution has reached the highest region on Earth – the garbage crisis in Tibet

Mass tourism, urbanization, and the absence of governance on waste management in rural areas have transformed Tibet, which has been dealing with a garbage crisis

Roberta Fabbrocino

call to action, naturally sourced

Why should Singapore amp up water conservation efforts to green 80% of its buildings?

Ravinder Sajwan, CEO of Renew Group, talks about why greening 80% of Singapore’s buildings by 2030 should start with water conservation

Reethu Ravi

call to action

Extreme weather – the heatwave that impacted Indian and Pakistan in 2022

The impact of climate change on people and the planet – Analysis found that climate change has made the heatwave that hit India and Pakistan thirty times more likely

Roberta Fabbrocino

blockchain, call to action

Building a renewable powered supply chain – the future of the fashion industry

Textile companies could reduce Scope 3 emissions by using renewable inputs such as solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal. At least, this is what is required from the luxury brands

Roberta Fabbrocino

call to action

Updating a new fashion legislature: is fast fashion auditing real or not?

Decarbonisation goals for fashion, taxes for pollutants from apparel, accountability for wage theft from garment workers. The fashion industry’s green, clean future may not be too far away

Aarushi Saxena

Penang, The Publishing Industry

Mano Plus, Penang. Repurposing localities to match its identity

Remaining independent is at the fundamentals of Mano Plus. Social media presence is how it grasps audiences to its environs. The products displayed are produced in Malaysia

Pravin Nair

call to action

Solving the water crisis: corporations are not investing enough

Today, 711 million people already lack access to safe water. The UN estimates that by 2025 1.8 billion people will live in water-stressed regions. New technologies are available, but they lack funds

Matilde Moro

Lampoon Issue 22

Rolex Perpetual Planet: dedication is necessary to plant trees, protect forests, and save our planet

Rolex stands as an eternal status symbol supporting human activities. It has been fostering not only brand identity, but brand authority as well

Alice Clarke

Mumbai

No Borders, Mumbai. A platform for cultural exchange without borders

The concept store shares stories, inspires, educates and connects through vintage and designer garments. In conversation with founder Kanika Karvinkop

Anisha Khemlani

Bengaluru

Cinnamon, Bengaluru. India’s craftsmanship refined to display the yesteryear

A spice plant in the retail industry. The pursuit of Radhika Poddar in establishing Cinnamon as a venture to sell the products she would like to buy

Matthew Burgos

Colombo

Barefoot, Colombo. Facilitating the elevation and empowerment of women in the workplace

A collection of buildings around a Twenties townhouse. The front of the store holds the handwoven fabrics, textiles, linen, clothing and patterns of Dumbara weaving, which hang through the metal structures

Chetna Chopra

Reportage

No spicy no sexy – Lahu and Karen tribe and communities: Giacomo Riccardi

From the Lahu tribe in Thailand to the happy water offered in Buddhist temples. Giacomo Riccardi report to Lampoon digital the culture and habits of Indigenous communities in the Far East

Editorial Team

Lampoon issue 28

Vito Schnabel: «Don’t talk about things you want to do – do them»

The American dealer Vito Schnabel about his perspectives on curation ethics, NFTs and his reflection on the matters of diversity and representation within the gallery system

Anna Prudhomme

call to action

A third of all second-hand clothing shipped to Kenya is plastic waste in disguise

Textile waste disposal markets are vital in Kenya. However, discarded dispatches coming from Western countries are responsible for turning the Global South as a textile dumping ground

Martina Tondo

the art field

Jeremy Hutchison: «I’m interested in perverting dominant culture. Queering power»

Waste colonialism and consumerism, environmental and social justice: the British artist’s latest project, Dead White Man, investigates the fate of the used clothes we send to the Global South

Agnese Torres

Barcelona

Swab Barcelona, a human scale fair, prioritizing quality programs and accessibility for its audience

Humane treatment and accessibility to culture are at the forefront in an event that seeks to break the barriers and elitism that often characterize the contemporary art scene – the aim of Swab art fair

Sofia Brizio

Digital intelligence

Hugo Bouteyre: inside Freud’s Iceberg Theory and the unconscious mind

Black Mass – Hugo Bouteyre explores the dark storage of memories: «Memories, fantasies, desires are stored in our unconsciousness – an area we cannot reach because its resistance»

Ario Mezzolani

forestry

Forests: primary forest loss stays at low levels in both Indonesia and Malaysia

Insight from the latest update of the GFR’s Forest Pulse: Indonesia is the top country for the reduction in primary forest loss as of 2022, with a sixty-four percent reduction

Roberta Fabbrocino

architecture

Jean-Daniel Allanche: the walls of the Atelier Moléculaire

A world of metaphysical obsession on the walls of his house – Lucile Allanche’s book of photographs and the Atelier Moléculaire

Editorial Team

Ibiza

TRS Hotel Ibiza, a geometry of light in the vegetation of the Balearic Islands

Between Sant Antoni de Portmany and Cala Gracio, TRS Ibiza Hotel experiments with personal butler and Signature Level service – the brand’s first in Europe is among the 41 Palladium Hotel Group properties

Matteo Mammoli

Digital intelligence

The ‘Cancel Culture’ trend: LGBTQ+, call for accountability or a social punishment?

Philippines is reportedly examining legislation to outlaw cancel culture as members of the conservative party feel threatened by pro LGBTQ+ online activists

Martina Tondo

the art field

The topoi of human history – present and past in Pietro Ruffo’s work

Geographic maps and writing, geometric overlays and experimentation with different materials: the breakdown of Pietro Ruffo’s operas and career

Chiara Narciso

Hangzhou

Works that center on stories of minorities – by minorities. Dorbeetle Store, Hangzhou

«The edge that we have at Dorbeetle is that we insist on our need to be pioneers for the voices from the West to local readers»

Pravin Nair

naturally sourced

Fact-checking: is the use of coal making a comeback? – An international analysis

Expansion of renewables will lead to a decline of twenty-eight percent in the EU power sector’s CO2 emissions by 2025 and in fossil fuel-fired generation from 2023

Roberta Fabbrocino

call to action

Trashion Report – Clothing waste from Europe is harming people and nature in Kenya

Trashion, the stealth export of waste plastic clothes to Kenya – Wealthy countries’ fashion addiction is impacting the Global South through the used clothes trade

Roberta Fabbrocino

architecture, Marrakech

An ancient Arsat Garden turned into an international hotel: La Mamounia, Marrakech

The Arsat gardens played a role in Moroccan culture for centuries, hosting political debates or the N’zaha, a picnic ritual where families and friends reunited to eat Tanjia, drink tea and sing Marrakshi songs

Debora Vitulano

Paris, raw materials

Oasi Cashmere – Zegna and The Elder Statesman joins Italian and American heritage

The styles are reinterpreted in off-kilter patterns and casual cuts in collaboration with Bailey Hunter, Creative Director of The Elder Statesman and Zegna Creative director Alessandro Sartori

Simoné Esterhuizen

Exhibitions, the art field

Cityscapes and empty bleach bottles; Hicham Gardaf, In Praise of Slowness

In conversation with award-winning Moroccan contemporary photographer Hicham Gardaf, whose eyes examine the transformations of social spaces

Glesni Trefor Williams

architecture, the art field

A Cyborg Manifesto: Shawanda Corbett’s questioning of what a complete body is

Multi-disciplinary artist Shawanda Corbett discusses cyborg theory, ceramic, jazz music, performance and her latest exhibition Let the Sunshine In

Aybuke Barkcin

Mexico City

ZonaMaco, Mexico City: the art scenario in Latin America by Zélika García

Blending international figures with Latin American galleries and artists, ZonaMaco founder Zélika García shares her insights for the 2023 edition of the fair

Kaitlyn Durbin

Milan

Señorío, Milan: the presidium of Iberian cuisine that was missing in the city

Señorío is a contemporary restaurant that fits well into Milan’s cosmopolitan scene, fueling the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain

Matteo Mammoli

Collections

Adam Jones: stitching together Britpop, pub-chic and the Union Jack into sweater vests

«The next collection will be more granny, more Welsh – your Nain going down to the pub with a lace collar on, and she’s drinking a pint». The punk nostalgic by Adam Jones

Glesni Trefor Williams

naturally sourced, textile fibers

Lionfish numbers reached a peak saturation point in Florida’s waters. Inversa addresses the issue

One species of fish is the perfect candidate for fish leather and environmental activists aren’t against it. Inversa launches Invasive Lionfish leather products from sneakers to watches

Aarushi Saxena

Milan

Tivioli, Milan: the interior designed by Gae Aulenti, the façade by Caccia Dominioni

«We want to keep the artisanal nature of the business even if this directly conflicts with the possibility of mass production», in conversation with Clemente Tivioli

Maria Bellotto

Jerusalem

Brown Jerusalem: in the heart of the city of gold, copper and light

With thirty three locations across the mediterranean, Leon Avigad has established Brown Hotels within the boutique hotel industry

Matteo Mammoli

Paris, Photography

Paris Photo: giving visibility to women artists with Florence Bourgeois and curator Rossy de Palma

Paris Photo director Florence Bourgeois discuss Paris Photo 2022 – «it’s easier to publish a book than to be represented by a gallery, it means there is still work to be done in the photography market»

Kaitlyn Durbin

Florence, New York

Amanita: the contemporary art gallery velvety hits New York

313 Bowery, now Amanita, is found in the former CBGB’s – a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in Manhattan’s East Village. A conversation with Caio Twombly and Leonardo Meoni

Federico Jonathan Cusin

call to action, forestry

June and July 2022 – climate anomalies, heat waves, and extreme weather events

In the summer of 2022, the planet Earth experienced its sixth warmest June, sixth warmest July, and year to date on record since the global records began in 1880

Roberta Fabbrocino

Tel Aviv

The Vera, Tel Aviv. Introducing Israeli short supply chain and local enterprises

A birthing house turned into a boutique hotel that follows the Local Anthology concept – «Almost everything is made in Israel: furniture, lighting, organic soaps, linen», founder Danny Tamari recounts

Matteo Mammoli

call to action

Why is the melting of glaciers making the land rise in Iceland? The land of ice

The Vatnajökull ice cap covers circa eight percent of Iceland’s territory and has lost more than fifteen percent of its volume during the last century

Roberta Fabbrocino

call to action

Nature’s shield – Deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, pandemics: it’s all linked

Increased contact with different animals and ecosystems has created opportunities for illnesses to be transmitted to humans, and global trade has magnified the scale of the outbreaks

Roberta Fabbrocino

Seoul

Rare Market, Seoul. A potential market for independent brands

A bridge between Europe and Korea, an exporter of new talents: nestled in Seoul’s most affluent neighborhood, a concept store that scouts and selects cutting-edge brands.

Matteo Mammoli

call to action

Water temperature – seventy-one percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water

Water is the thermometer of a warming planet Earth: our world is dealing with water scarcity, as our freshwater resources are declining

Roberta Fabbrocino

Exhibitions, naturally sourced

What’s in my clothes? What we grow and what we wear? A Textile Garden

Through a living installation, ‘A Textile Garden’ serves food for thought: what is the relationship between what we grow and what we wear?

Aarushi Saxena

Paris

One Block Down launches ‘SUBNOTESFROM’ at their new Parisian hub

Continuing One Block Down’s quest for educating and sparking curiosity, SUBNOTESFROM via an event at their new Paris boutique

Kaitlyn Durbin

call to action, naturally sourced

Dirty money – Banking on Climate Chaos 2022: listing the banks that are financing fossil fuel companies

In the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, fossil fuel financing from the world’s sixty largest banks has reached four-point-six trillion USD

Roberta Fabbrocino