Review
Shall your fantasy be dismissed by some artificial intelligence?
The exhibition Cartier & Myths in Rome forces us back to the place where fantasy is born – the realm of myth – with a challenging question: will we remain...
How to Peel yourself: the ritual of shedding and becoming
In Osman Özel’s visual narrative for Lampoon SOAP, the act of cleansing becomes an intimate choreography of transformation – a meditation on identity, purity, and the art of unveiling oneself
Juergen Teller shapes Onassis Ready into a living exhibition: You are invited
Juergen Teller arrives in Athens not in a white cube: You are invited explores intimacy, archival work and new series within the unpolished framework of Onassis Ready, a former factory...
The Bi culture: does bisexuality exist?
From Seventies bisexual activism to the erasure of those living outside straight and homo definitions – Pillion, Euphoria and other movies and TV series explore how visibility can question fixed notions...
Ash, Water, Plastic: Ritual and Reality Along the Ganges
From the divine descent through Shiva’s hair to the industrial discharge of modern cities, the Ganges tells a story of devotion and ecological crisis – between purification rituals and chemical...
The Politics of Oil: Tanoa Sasraku Reframes Corporate Souvenirs as Violent Symbols
Working with found objects, sculptures, and UV-printed paper works, Tanoa Sasraku maps the destruction of the oil industry across global affairs and the environment
Charlotte Taylor: drawing the balance between fiction and structure
Between the digital and the built, Charlotte Taylor moves through worlds that mirror and inform each other — where light, weight, and narrative define how we inhabit space
We all want more sex! Independent publishing and emerging fashion
From Butt Magazine to Carne Bollente and Ludovic de Saint Sernin, independent publishing and niche fashion labels transform sex from spectacle into intimacy – shifting from glossy provocation to everyday...
The difference between fashion and style – and the measure of Armani
The Giorgio Armani company: 50 years of activity and operation – style, fashion and measure, pioneering sustainability, message, and Milan’s rough architects
Cara Cano: searching for a space where restraint and vitality coexist
From Korea to Paris, it’s easy to disappear into the codes of luxury — Cara Cano found her language, when she started reading more about art and understanding color and...
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
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...
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
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...
Humans can learn from the cooperative system of bees
3. Photographer Maurizio Annese visits Cascina Linterno in Milan to explore the dynamics and hierarchies among bees. In his shots, the investigation of a complex social structure becomes inspiration
Les Lalanne — originality in an era of covers and revivals
For François and Claude Lalanne, a hippopotamus becomes a bathtub. Whether at an exhibition or an auction, this is how collectors' obsessions start
Lampoon SOAP: the new issue. We like it dirty and soapy
Editorial introduction to the new issue of Lampoon, SOAP, available in bookstores and some of the best newsstands worldwide from October 2025: soap and pure water, souls and stains, microplastics...
Why re-reading old images is a subversive act?
Rodrigue de Ferluc reassembles Paris Match archives to question the meaning of images and their reuse —from glossy celebrity portraits to war reportage—in an era of algorithmic control
Palm Heights and the Cayman Islands: hospitality as cultural infrastructure
From stratified migration policies to postmodern beach resorts, the Cayman Islands reflect global contrasts. Palm Heights operates as an annotated archive of objects, rituals and temporary alliances
Sander Lak: navigating the industry with deadstock and smaller scale production
A conversation with Sander Lak on leaving Sies Marjan, exploring work beyond fashion, and returning with a label built on deadstock fabrics and creative independence
Matthieu Blazy at Chanel: What Does It Mean?
A creative director and some consistency: is Matthieu Blazy ready to redefine the visual narrative of Chanel? A story of craftsmanship, material research, and a less ephemeral idea of celebrity...
Sex toys for straight men: even hard boys want to play
Once grooming and skincare defined the so-called metrosexual—today, straight men embrace sex toys as tools for self-exploration and intimacy. From Sonia Rykiel’s duck-shaped vibrators to Harry Styles’ Pleasing Yourself
The art of exit: fashion designers writing their final chapter
From Sunnei’s auction-like finale to Alexander McQueen’s silent salon and Tom Ford’s boardroom battle: each exit reshaped not only a personal career but the direction of entire fashion houses and...
Jack Johnstone: the Bauhaus school between esotericism and mathematical rigor
Inspired by the German school of design, Bauhaus, British photographer Jack Johnstone brings back the human body as a constitutive element of theater and performance
Why mining for EVs and renewables is dirtier than we think
The environmental impact of EV mining: Vince Beiser explains the invisible supply chains, hidden machines, and raw materials behind smartphones, EVs, and modern life
Trees and city: Khao Yai Art Forest and Bangkok Kunsthalle
From the reuse of a burnt printing house to a forest-laboratory: Stefano Rabolli Pansera recounts Khao Yai Art Forest and Bangkok Kunsthalle through reforestation, renewable energy, water monitoring, and material...
Are the new creative directors interested in sustainability?
A retrospective on whether and how the new creative directors are addressing sustainability – from small independent brands to major fashion houses, from Duran Lantink to Balenciaga
Transitioning – When tigers used to smoke even monkeys used to fall
«Will the mask have a conventional role or can it be a revealer?» -Louis Canadas considers a mask as a processor for a new personality
Who’s afraid of the father? Camille Lévêque rewrites paternal mythologies
Through collage, family archives, advertising images, and political propaganda, photographer Camille Lévêque dismantles the traditional father figure, exposing patriarchal myths in À la recherche du père
What Braids Mean Across Time? Heritage, Resistance, and Reinvention
From ancestral codes to fashion runways, braids stand as cultural language and visual archive, linking heritage with reinvention
Post-plastic imaginaries: Sarah Schönfeld and the ecological politics of cleansing rituals
Ideas of cleanliness frequently conceal underlying cultural fears: anxieties about control, the illusion of purity, and the unsettling reality of the body as an open, porous system. Schönfeld responds to...
Marie Davidson and the not sustainable logistics of the entertainment industry
In City of Clowns, Marie Davidson dismantles the pressure to always be visible: flights, luggage, check-in, endless lines, delays, cancellations
Marcell Dettmann on the cost of integrity: artistic credibility still matters in electronic music
In an industry where hype often overshadows substance, artistic integrity remains a radical act. Marcell Dettmann on rejecting major deals to embracing imperfection
Durk Dehner – Sex between men is just plain manly, no matter what position one takes
Durk Dehner of Tom of Finland Foundation dissects one of the many elements that define the queer as a community and a tribe, the roots of the sexual attraction the...
What does “editorial” mean? Redefining an overused word
A publisher is someone who guarantees the context and the trust that this context promises: the publisher allows creative talent to freely express themselves always within a shared message
A Sixties villa show the rough character of Atlantic France
Far from the clichés of the Côte d’Azur, a house becomes a stage for reinvention. In the windswept Basque town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Marie Schuller captures her mother in her house
Pol Anglada on Tom of Finland, Anonymous Johns, and Queer Eroticism
From Tumblr awakenings to Tom of Finland’s ghosts, Pol Anglada’s drawings spit in the face of sanitized queerness and dare to stay raw—hair, sweat, rough bodies and fragile intimacies sketched...
On resisting digital noise: Torus is building an underground sound
From refusing OpenAI's Super Bowl ad to building underground sound installations and surviving bureaucratic shutdowns—Torus on rejecting algorithmic culture and improvising through failure
Clara 3000: the music industry’s demand for branding is unsustainable
For DJ Clara 3000, the dancefloor is a space for political resistance — a radical alternative to a music industry increasingly driven by branding, repetition, and the erosion of artistic...
Florence: from cultural heritage to an open-air stage of fakes
Photographer Louis De Belle investigates how mass tourism, obsessive visual reproduction, and urban trompe-l’œil strategies have contributed to a distorted identity of Florence
The Tunisian Shepherd – learning to dismiss the luxury of waste
Photographer Akila Berjaoui and Clément LaGuardia uncovered the quiet resilience of Tunisia’s shepherds — revealing a raw portrait of ancestral living, slow fashion
Is preservation without use is another form of decay?
Photographer Allegra Martin explores the contradictions of modern architecture—not as static monuments to an ideal past, but as evolving, inhabited structures shaped by time, use and political change
Who are the Boomers? The ones who dismiss the word “sustainability”
Sustainability is an overused word, dangerously close to losing its meaning — and Boomers are quick to dismiss it, even though it remains the only reliable code of critical thinking
Alex Black and the Performance of Beauty in an Age of Visual Saturation
Through staged photography and AI-generated symbols, Canadian director Alex Black reimagines identity and desire—while exposing the unsustainable systems behind how beauty is made and sold.
Maria Luisa Frisa and the political value of fashion
Fashion needs a political message: activism, disruption, obsession – fashion is no longer just a creative matter. The responses of Maria Luisa Frisa
There’s no room for maximalist lines in studioutte’s work
Patrizio Gola and Guglielmo Giagnotti reject sustainability as a trend: it should be inherent to design. Archetypes, simple forms, and a refusal of decor
