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Hunger and sexual desire are regulated by the same system of norms
Diet culture controls not just what you eat and who you are – from Naomi Wolf's Beauty Myth to algorithmic surveillance on Instagram and TikTok, the body is always on...
We are afraid of losing images: photography in the digital age with Xiaopeng Yuan
From failed iPhone backups to printed photobooks, Xiaopeng Yuan explores the instability of digital memory and questions what remains when images become data stored inside endless archives
Another Italian manufacturer credited as global taste maker: the history of Lozza eyewear
From a mill in Cadore to a global style code: Lozza is an eyewear brand that helped invent the Italian attitude —crafted in-house by historical manufacturer De Rigo
A body that refuses style: Ohad Naharin and the Engine of Gaga
Inside Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin pushes Gaga beyond technique – 30% power, radical control, repetition and chaos forging a body that refuses style
Wood in a circular economy: reclaimed teak to give discarded wood a second life
From Mumbai to Umbria, Baro Design and Laquercia21 turn reclaimed wood into contemporary furniture—proof that sustainability can be built from scraps, not mass production
Galib Gassanoff: structure is not a style, it is a position
A conversation on discipline, cultural memory, and why a designer who knows how to cut a dress has less and less space in an industry that moves too fast to...
Peace as infrastructure: how finance and AI could redesign stability
War is economically convenient for specific actors — only by making peace equally profitable, through AI diplomacy and new financial instruments, can the system change. From Tech Emotion Summit 2026
Clara Hastrup: the artist wiring living systems into kinetic sculptures
Clara Hastrup’s fish machine sculptures transform aquariums into instruments, using light beams and DIY electronics to test autonomy, intention and control
Midnight sun: inside the arctic bubble where light dissolves time
Aliocha Boi leads us into an Arctic where night never returns and glaciers vanish quietly. How do we navigate a world that dissolves our senses and confronts us with its...
Back to the Antwerp Six: independence reshaped fashion once, why not today again?
Emerging in the 1980s, a group of six designers introduced a model of independent, designer-led fashion that shifted the industry from trend driven systems to authorial practices
Fashion underdogs: the time has come for a revolution
A violent aesthetic built on cuts and lacerations that critics would lazily reduce to the label "Hiroshima chic" – but Kawakubo was excavating something far deeper – the realm of...
Cruise collections: political ideology and the American visibility machine
As Cruise collections migrate toward American cities, the original logic of seasonal escape gives way to something harder to name
Celine after Hedi Slimane: can it be even sexier?
It looks like Michael Rider at Celine works well: in a fragmenting fashion industry, he does not need any claims: not being one thing, being allowed to be anything—it’s an...
Feminist pornography subverts the dominant gaze – beyond the male gaze
Feminist pornography questions who holds the camera, who writes the scene, and what imagery is produced – for whom. From Club 90 to Erika Lust's productions, via the post-porn by...
Metamorphosis as fracture: Alexandra Alvarez Garcia for Lampoon MECCANO
From Kafka to the mechanical body, identity dissolves into systems of labor, alienation, and constructed selfhood – where the body becomes a site of tension between control and collapse
Motors, fish and minor disasters: Yuko Mohri scales technology
From feather dusters to magnetic fields, Yuko Mohri rewires everyday objects into unstable systems where error generates knowledge and technology returns to human scale
From aero politics to salt architecture: Tomás Saraceno
In Salinas Grandes, El Santuario del Agua by Tomás Saraceno reimagines land art as a community-owned project rooted in water, salt, and Indigenous knowledge
Fashion is just about a sense of Community: why Stone Island proves it better than the others
Community is a testing ground: how Stone Island’s garments have been managing to evolve through real-world use across subcultures and shared environments
Hannah Levy: why a prehistoric crab makes sense in her sculpture
With Blue Blooded at Museo Nivola, Hannah Levy turns the horseshoe crab — harvested for modern medicine since before memory — into the most coherent subject she has ever chosen
Roe Ethridge and the failure of good taste: images that refuse to behave
“The exhaustion of my eyes by Instagram.” Presenting Rude in the Good Way, Roe Ethridge traces two decades of work, from suburban images to hybrid compositions: fashion and visual culture
Lampoon Aphantasia: an unfinished piece for mechanical piano
Photographer Walter Pierre and model Raya Martigny explore body as mechanism for Lampoon Meccano, in a visual editorial suspended between aphantasia, friction, and incomplete motion
Xiao Yang Bure and the post-human body: a ‘metal’ Manifesto
Model, content creator, and emerging figure in the Chinese aesthetic scene, Xiao Yang Bure turns her prosthesis into a radical fashion system
Smartphone interaction and the erosion of boredom: we look for the pause
We were promised tools to free our time. Instead, today we surrender the only hours that are truly ours — the empty ones. Leonie Volk for Lampoon MECCANO
What you want from your body? Antony Gormley, iron and crawling
An interview with Antony Gormley. In What Holds Us, he stages a physical encounter with sculpture:“to become whole we have to be held. A tree has to be held in...
The system we live in was never built for the four cycles women go through
Arale Reartes for Lampoon MECCANO – four hormonal phases as mechanical states, between self-portrait and still life, against a model of linear productivity
Pietro Porcinai, 1,300 landscape projects: a reportage from Oasi Zegna
In Oasi Zegna, between the 1950s and 1970s, architect and agronomist Pietro Porcinai developed a territorial system for the Zegna family, integrating gardens, industry, forests, and monuments
Diego Villareal: metal does not forgive, it records a decision
Diego Villarreal, founder of Vagujhelyi, speaks about his design practice: he produces metal objects that function as both usable items and sculptural forms
Order as instinct: Milan Design Week 2026 and the focus to raw materials
Captured on analog film, a material reading of Milan Design Week 2026: wood, glass and metal as structural languages, carrying form, memory and spatial intent
Erwan Bouroullec on Maap for Flos: I prefer instinct over dogma
A rural childhood, the roughness of making, and the logic hidden in disorder: Erwan Bouroullec on the genesis of Maap for Flos — why chaos is the most honest design...
Amalia Ulman: humor as revenge, cinema as class warfare
From Web 1.0 irony to noir-inflected filmmaking, Amalia Ulman rejects poverty porn, questions AI hysteria, and defends humor as a survival tool
Chiara Yiontis draws circles, no sketch no plan
Each work is built through repetition: circles drawn one by one without sketch, where proximity creates structure and a single encounter can redirect a life. Chiara Yiontis for Lampoon MECCANO
Uzbekistan: some Soviet Modernism is leading creativity worldwide
From Timurid empires to Cold War metros, from mud-brick labyrinths to solar furnaces: how Uzbekistan is turning heritage, brutalism and contemporary art into a new geopolitical and aesthetic statement
At Prada Frames, Alfredo Jaar spoke about images without showing a single one
Alfredo Jaar returned to the argument at the center of his work: images do not represent reality, they construct it. From Real Pictures to Searching for Africa in Life, why...
Nick Knight working on the latest Tiffany & Co. collections for Lampoon Meccano
SHOWstudio, London - Nick Knight interprets Tiffany collections portraying Hunter Piferc and conceptually connecting body, structure, and surface – this Lampoon’s MECCANO issue
Loro Piana Extra Bag by Adrien Dubost: scale without redesign
Shot for Lampoon Meccano, Adrien Dubost places the Extra Bag in an industrial set, isolating its form among steel structures and reflective surfaces to test proportion, material, and construction
Amateur bodies escape the economy of perfection
Spyros Rennt's images for Lampoon Meccano trace an analog, unguarded intimacy of bodies — and open a reflection on amateur desire and what happens when the spectacle breaks
The Back Studio, industrial scrap for the hottest lamps around
Neon bends, aluminum scratches, glass suspends: The Back Studio’s work lives in the tension between mechanical precision and raw imperfection. An interview with Eugenio Rossi and Yaazd Contractor
Martin Margiela at the Kudan House: between the historic cedar and the void
Martin Margiela marks his first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan by treating a 1927 heritage residence as a site of memory and disappearance – a graft of Spanish Colonial Revival...
Goshka Macuga: when systems work too well power takes over
“Growing up with nothing trained me to build everything” – Goshka Macuga on memory, archives, AI, and why systems become dangerous when efficiency starts to override human truth
The loudspeaker as machine: Erwann Petersen and the mechanics of sound
From early electromagnetic experiments to Transparent’s exposed systems, the loudspeaker shifts from hidden function to visible structure, staged as object and evidence
Nick Knight shoots Tiffany for Lampoon MECCANO: why jewelry works like engineering
A dock chain cast in 18k gold, a knot that holds what words can't, a cuff shaped on bone. Nick Knight shoots three of Tiffany collections built like a machine...
Can hemp become a fragrance, or is it still just raw material?
Canapa N318 by LabSolue uses Cannabis sativa L. as an olfactory raw material, isolating terpenes through low-yield distillation and integrating them into a controlled formulation system
More Logo or No Logo: why Louis Vuitton wants it even more
While the system pushes the no-logo narrative through quiet luxury, Louis Vuitton continues to hold its position by keeping power on the logo mania — the Speedy P9 shall prove...
The Beautiful Fall: Meccano of rivalry, calibrated to fail
A story by photographer Eva Baales for Lampoon MECCANO becomes an occasion to reflect on downfall – From Onassis to Lagerfeld, from Callas to Jackie, love turns into leverage
Surreal but not fiction: Mat Maitland on what animals and machines actually share
Mat Maitland's cybernetic collages for Lampoon Meccano explore the blurred boundary between animal bodies and mechanical systems — and why science suggests the two were never truly separate
Lampoon MECCANO: Thinking as a form of disobedience – the Editor’s letter
Lampoon’s latest issue – MECCANO is the title and the manifesto. From children’s toys to analytical diagrams, human thought becomes a form of disobedience: we will not surrender to social...
