The Daily Dispatch includes reviews and critical readings of books, exhibitions, photography projects, architecture, independent publications and cultural initiatives. Each contribution connects individual work to a wider system of production, politics, technology and material culture.
Updated with new content every day, The Daily Dispatch extends Lampoon’s editorial research beyond the rhythm of the print edition. It is a continuous journal of contemporary culture — grounded in evidence, direct observation and an interest in how things are made.
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Ninety-five percent water, five percent collagen: the jellyfish washing ashore as a textile
Salted, cross-linked, dyed with medieval egg yolk: researchers in the Netherlands, Japan and Israel are turning jellyfish collagen into fabric that behaves like skin because – structurally – it still is
How CHART 2026 is redefining the art fair model: in conversation with Julie Quottrup Silbermann
Lowering the threshold without lowering artistic ambition: CHART Art Fair’s approach to new collectors, public engagement and contemporary art
The Director Who Came From Fashion: Pop Music’s New Image Economy
Today, pop artists hire directors from fashion's inner circle. The resulting videos carry fashion's grammar — and what that trade costs the music remains an open question
Working titanium: anodizing, welding and printing the metal that won’t apologize
Fifty cents of titanium equals thousands in gold: the metal builds its case in jewelry on strength, purity and permanence: resistant to resizing, soldering, and to the market logic of...
The Bauhaus produced its own image with the same method it used for chairs
Photography arrives late at the Bauhaus and becomes the language through which the school builds and circulates its own image — the book New Woman, New Vision
LVMH, Chanel – why are the big groups buying up Italian artisans?
It may look like a new form of colonization – but there are positive outcomes, and greater protections: a reflection on the Italian manufacturing district, our heritage
Clitoris: an intersectional perspective on sexual pleasure
Desire is never neutral. From the clitoris erased by theory to a $43 billion wellness market, who gets to feel pleasure safely, and who still doesn't
350 species in one seagrass meadow: how One Ocean Foundation operates
From the Caprera Canyon to Posidonia restoration in Cala di Volpe, One Ocean Foundation builds infrastructure for marine science — the exhibition As Above, So Below in Venice
The fault is the last human trait: Jonathan Llense photographs circuits that stay unlit
Every screen is engineered to ignite at a touch: Jonathan Llense assembles complete circuits that withhold the spark, and claims failure as the gesture reserved for the human
Hélène Giannecchini and an Army of Lovers – how you process friendship today?
History asks us to rethink friendship as a political form of care. An interview with Hélène Giannecchini explores friendship as a radical way of living together
Indian cotton varieties: some seeds forgotten for 40 years
Aditi Mayer's The Artisan Archive traces the revival of India's indigenous cotton, from 40-year-old seeds to artisan livelihoods, organic farming, and a more resilient fashion supply chain
Lampoon, Horny for Culture — there is no contemporary culture but sustainability
Lampoon, Horny for Culture: sustainability as the sole form of contemporary culture — something that stimulates the erogenous receptors
Pedro Almodóvar has spent forty years refusing to let stories end
From Madrid's Movida to his most confessional films, the director keeps circling the same obsession: mothers, desire and the ending he still won't accept
Charli XCX killed the erotic album cover
Charli XCX replaced it with something far more seductive. From Roxy Music's exposed bodies to Scorsese, Jacobs, and Cale in a kitchen: desire in music learned to live inside cultural...
Football shirt: the World Cup fetish and the reality show of the male body
From the terraces to fashion, the football shirt is the fetish of a libidinal economy worth 87.5 billion dollars, turning the World Cup into a reality show of the male...
Unisex, androgyny, sex-less design: fashion has always been naked
From the androgynous Nineties to the gender-agnostic collections of 2026: fashion has spent a century trying to neutralize sex – but sex is stronger than fashion
Hugh Herr builds the cyborg: prostheses the brain feels and controls as its own
After losing both legs at seventeen, Hugh Herr turned limitation into design, engineering prostheses that seamlessly connect flesh, skin, nerves and circuits through bidirectional neural interfaces
Lampoon Ruvido — editorial identity and the coherence of a message
Lampoon Ruvido — from an American English vocabulary to ten years of publishing: the coherence of a message and the concept of rough
Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Roman couture debut: Fendi after Fendi
The color people actually wear is black, Chiuri says, and she rebuilds a house on that diagnosis: a Fendi couture debut of severity, craft, and almost no fur at all
Wasted Waste: the Czech design project turning textile waste into a systemic question
Wasted Waste began at a waste management facility on the Czech-Polish border – a design project on post-consumer textile disposal, first shown at Milan Design Week
Couture is a dog’s life, and Piccioli signed up at Balenciaga anyway
For fall-winter 2026, Pierpaolo Piccioli stages Balenciaga's fifty-fifth couture collection around a Cité Universitaire courtyard, fusing tailoring and flou to prove couture still breathes today
Versace after Alaïa: what Pieter Mulier will do with bondage
Alaïa and Versace: two opposing visions of sensuality that pulled fashion out of the drawing rooms of the wealthy and into the reality of the body. Mulier and Vitale: the...
All about Hemp: the textile industry, fabrics and yarns, uses and operations
The only vegetable textile fiber that can be sourced in Italy is hemp. Scutching and retting are the two critical agricultural steps in a supply chain that supplies material to...
Correcting, sculpting, selling: Fashion’s permanent construction site
For fashion low target brands, a Ford Mustang, a Coca-Cola bottle, and a female body obey the same logic: form, desirability, and market value. The industry's real economic engine
The dildo: made in the Stone Age, banned by the Church, sold at Sephora
Female pleasure has always been somebody else's political problem. The history of an object every civilization made and most tried to suppress
Porn outlasts chic: why Hodakova escapes the boredom of fashion
Between corporate dungeons and tired sustainability, Ellen Hodakova Larsson rescues fashion from beige — discarded materials and fetish imagery to build a world far outside the conglomerates' rooms
The Zeitgeist of Louis-Gabriel Nouchi: literature and Onlyfans
The reader on the metro and the OnlyFans subscriber are likely one person. Louis-Gabriel Nouchi has built an entire brand around that overlap, and SS27 is the latest chapter
Why everyone in the room wanted to be a Celine man
While fashion keeps speaking an hermetic language, Michael Rider prefers the grammar of heat: skin, sweat, crumpled linen, and men who look like they live enough to wrinkle their own...
Lazoschmidl: your grandmother’s print, your phone’s front camera
The most transgressive thing in menswear right now is a bathrobe worn out the door and a floral print that belonged to your grandmother – Lazoschmidl SS27 Daynight, Paris Fashion...
Veronica Leoni at Calvin Klein: sexitude and the narcissistic kink
The first woman to lead Calvin Klein Collection in sixty years, Veronica Leoni is rebuilding the source code, relocating desire from the camera's gaze to the architecture of the dressed...
Between me and my Calvins: are we still so horny?
To say "it's so Calvin" is a way of saying you are looking at someone undressed and being made to want it — and that the wanting is the point
Moda Ruvida – Prada doesn’t care, and that’s the whole point
Mrs. Prada and Raf Simons: fashion is just an attitude — a black leather jacket, a yellow square on the back, and nothing left to prove
Moda Ruvida: Paul Smith and his unsuitable situations, with some cultural irony
Tailored and relaxed clothes for inappropriate efforts — the Paul Smith show in Milan is still a compendium of sharp formality and broken youth
Closeness is a fiction: Marie Tomanova shoots herself daily for a year
Three Empty Weeks in July – at Harkawik, New York, through July 11, 2026: a durational body of work shot on a Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6 implicates the viewer in...
Monument London: editing history through objects
Archival design presented with restraint: objects removed from context to reveal authorship, tension, and form. Based in London, Monument was founded by Leah Forsyth-Steel and Victoria Spicer
Hermès, 166 New Bond Street — can you still call it a store?
The new Hermès flagship in London: straw marquetry, horsehair, glass bricks, and the ghost of Seventies punk on New Bond Street
Pride and the market: when activism becomes a product line
From Stonewall to the seasonal capsule collection, corporate Pride branding has transformed queer politics into a purchasable identity — the fashion industry, from Loewe to Saint Laurent, is still negotiating...
Diagrams: there is no such thing as an innocent map
From W.E.B. Du Bois to algorithmic dashboards, diagrams have long shaped the way societies classify knowledge, produce consensus, and visualize power. Cornelia Mattiacci and Giulio Margheri discuss the research developed...
Mapping the geography of Made in Italy beyond national borders
Diana Studio, the Prato-based knitwear producer, opens its factory floor to question what transparency in fashion means — and why production planning matters more than certifications
Why you so obsessed with me? An encyclopedia of fashion obsessions
From Luna Rossa and Triple S to the Baguette and Dior's Saddle Bag, an encyclopedia of contemporary fashion obsessions — examining how repetition, visibility, and circulation build desire
Fashion creativity needs constraints to move forward
When fashion can no longer expand through excess, it turns inward: constraints on materials, production, and image become the new territory where creativity proves its intelligence and its force
Which is the best hotel in Italy? Beyond personal opinion
For ethical entrepreneurship, sustainability, and the good Italian lifestyle – it’s not about decoration, opinion, luxury, or marketing. It’s about the best hotel in Italy
91530 Le Marais: one hemp farm near Paris is using culture to save the soil
Fifty kilometres from Paris, 91530 LE MARAIS is turning hemp fields into exhibition spaces — and asking whether art might be the most powerful tool we have for saving the...
Humble luxury or quiet luxury? The loudest thing you can do is nothing
Quiet luxury performs restraint. Humble luxury performs virtue – whispering "I don't care" loudly: status is now defined by the coherence of one's position – not its visibility – which brands will...
The Nightclub Crisis: we dressed to get laid – now we swipe
Once the outfit was the search query and the door was the filter - now the algorithm sorts desire, and the club uniform survives only as a costume to photograph....
What “bionic” really means in prosthetics, according to Ottobock’s Corrado Polzoni
Corrado Polzoni, head of prosthetics at Ottobock, redefines bionic not as added power but as reduced cognitive load — the point where a prosthesis stops demanding attention and becomes part...
