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Saute Hermès. Photography Alessandro Fornaro

Saut Hermès: the horse goes to the tailor

Hermès’ first client? The horse. The second? The rider. A conversation with Chloé Nobecourt, Director of Hermès Equestrian Métier and the maison’s artisans on craft manufacturing

Silvia Prada, two boys

Silvia Prada and the joy of hiding out

Silvia Prada’s ‘fetishistic lens’ to explore the complexities of desire and representation – a conversation on the evolving landscape of queer music, fashion, history and what it means to be a true gay icon

Ottolinger

Ottolinger and womanity: ready to unwear 

«We felt something was missing for women in the fashion market». Ottolinger duo, Cosima Gadient and Christa Bösch, forms new vocabularies of the feminine and the thrust towards womanity

Cini Boeri, via Smareglia, Milan, Italy

Hot tubes: Italian Design masters

Bourgeois-interior in a series of hidden spaces designed by Italian masters for Lampoon: Franco Albini, Gianfranco Frattini, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Cini Boeri, Claudio Salocchi, Nanda Vigo

Gio Black Peter

Fire Island: get a ticket for a blowjob

Straight families are undermining the dream. Fire Island: get a ticket for a blowjob. New York’s gay mecca used to be only for the community. Interview with Slava Mogutin and Gio Black Peter

Ai WeiWei. Photography Ela Bialkowska OKNO studio

Ai Weiwei: fuck the mundane structure

Ai Weiwei returns to Italy with the exhibition Neither Nor at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Tuscany. Between lego, antique stools and criticism to art critics, the artist confirms to be a maverick thinker

Carsten Höller, Five Amanitas, GALLERIA CONTINUA, photography Pamela Bralia, 2008

Carsten Höller: Doubt is a mushroom

In a Western culture of doubt avoidance, we want to be decision makers. Doubts contain beauty we don’t recognize. Lampoon 29: an interview with Carsten Höller and some mushrooms

Tali Lennox

Tali Lennox: a tsunami of change

Tali Lennox interview with Lampoon, the Boiling issue: I like to capture the void in between where one has a physical or environmental eruption. Photography Olivia Malone, styling Carolina Orrico

Loewe show at Paris Fashion Week. Fall Winter 2024 2025

Fashion design: creativity must be constrained

If creativity cannot expand on the surface, it descends into the depths. Limits and constraints are needed, to improve the proceed with a responsible design: analysis, examples, chronicles, and references

Sam Smith at Paris Fashion Week 2024

Paris fashion’s return to conservatism

Contemporary fashion finds itself navigating a spectrum from avant-garde innovation to traditional conservatism. At Paris Fashion Week, runway presentations showcase a resurgence of conservative aesthetics

Prada FW2024 detail

Prada obsession: how long will it last?

The fashion industry remains obsessed with Prada: the identity of the bourgeoisie, the intellectual irony of a lady who walks with brisk steps, the pride of a woman who identifies Milan and the Milanese

Fashion for God show. Femke Lockefeer

Power and fashionistas in the Church 

The Church and the religious fashion: Fashion for God at Museum Catharijneconvent shows the artistic commitment behind the paraments of the Catholic church in the past