Magazine
The denim industry leaves cotton behind. Levi’s and VirgoCoop the cottonized hemp
Denim production considers further investments on hemp to replace cotton. The cases of Levi’s hemp selvedge 501 jeans and Nimes’s Futura 75 variety in partnership with VirgoCoop
SC103 holistic approach – making a collection without the industry’s expectations
Whether bringing back mementos from their hometowns or finding meaning in reusing materials, Sophie Andes-Gascon and Claire McKinney constantly forge connections and preserve memories
Inner Child – Lorenzo Paino Fernandez’s tales of youth for Lampoon online
Lightheartedness, childhood fears and the suspension of time. Lorenzo Paino Fernandez provides us with an unconscious ‘bread crumb trail’ to explore our inner psyche
Caleb Hahne Quintana: migration and masculinity in Southwestern America
Approaching the American Southwest through a new lens of realism, the American painter considers his family history and national myth through memory-inflected paintings
Simplicity and minimalism – The Row and the age of Silent Luxury
American based fashion label, The Row is eating European luxury houses alive. How did Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen manage to exchange their celebrity status to Luxury label connoisseurs?
Ganni teams up with Rubi to present a yarn from photosynthesis carbon emissions
Fashion giants Reformation and Patagonia to create prototype products : Can carbon yarn made from bio catalysis be a substitute for viscose? Ganni and Rubi working together
Mark Ronson at the Montreux Jazz Festival: a suspended mirror over the crowd
The mirror was transformed into a screen, during the closing night of the Montreux Jazz Festival 2023 – Audemars Piguet and Mark Ronson return in Switzerland
MSCHF case: from Satan Shoes to the Microscopic Handbag
MSCHF collective want to mock capitalism by leveraging pop culture, but they end up feeding it – the mini bag is visible only under a microscope and is a little...
Art versus gentrification in Queens, New York: Malikah exhibition at MoMA PS1
With rents rising 34% in a year, Malikah works to preserve Little Egypt identity against gentrification. Keeping the dual identity of immigrants intact. The exhibition at MoMA PS1
Aphex Twin: lucid dreams and portals of consciousness
Marking the release of his EP Blackbox Life Recorder 21f, Aphex returns to the spotlight with his oldest bond: that with video art. A journey through AFX cinematic dimensions
Indigenous Peoples Day: the world’s cultural and living heritage
The date of August 9 marks the first meeting, in 1982, of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations – 476 million people around the world and spread across more...
Flipping the Script: full story of cotton– Against the idea of ‘basics’
The world’s first sustainable fashion museum in Amsterdam invites consumers to expand their view on cotton beyond jeans and T-shirt with the exhibition Flipping the Script
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
Humans are still at the center of everything – Before the Storm, Pinault Collection
Deconstructing the Western gaze: a post-naturalist aesthetic, the climate crisis - less a transformation than the visible manifestation. Before the Storm, Pinault Collection
Earth Overshoot Day was moved from Aug 1 to Aug 2 with eight-hour delay
Earth Overshoot Day 2023 falls on August 2: how is it calculated and what it reveals? pandemic closures caused CO2 emissions to fall, but after that they started to rise...
Biophilia in the home: the art of growing furniture
Patience, Innovation, and Nature – from exclusivity to mass appeal. Full Grown's vision for the Future is about connections with the Natural World through furniture
Women’s bodies and their sexuality – Serena de Ferrari for Lampoon Digital
Serena talks on about the love-hate relationship with her body, her acting role in Mare Fuori, which tested her psycho-physical state
Rurality reworked: is fashion design still inspired by a family?
Cosmopolitan cities are homogenized, suburbia is experienced as a disgrace: a topic addressed by Italian fashion designer Federico Cina
Getting rid of the abstract goals: Mylo and the Global Fashion Summit 2023
The case of stop in production of Mylo, an alternative and ethical material created by Bolt Threads has created a stir: why does fashion still put little effort?
Advertising pollutes the brain – Adbusters fights, est. 1989
The Canadian magazine Adbustes was founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn with a group of anti-capitalist activists. Today, it keeps thriving and fighting, with no ads
In the spiral circus of Parisian social scene with Lukas Ionesco
Spiral Circus is a five-track EP that bears the influence of the 60s Beach Boys – Beatles sounding – «my music is like a rusty cranked merry-go-round» recounts Lukas Ionesco
Solitude and sexual innuendo: Georgia O’Keeffe’s paper drawings
77 years later, the NYC MoMA is hosting its second retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe. Curator Samantha Friedman introduces the Mother of American modernism and her paper works
Beyond archiving gay magazines: Cowboy Frank and gay rodeos
An archivist preserving the images of men in leather, harness, fake uniforms, and bare bodies – Frank Harrell educates present readers on the queer landscape
Ortigia Sound System – the island’s renovation and the Tropicalization of the Mediterranean
How has the island of Ortigia in Sicily changed thanks to a redevelopment plan and the birth of both cultural projects, headed by the Ortigia Sound System? A reportage
Collecting memories and film tickets: Jim Longden’s path to filmmaking
British 23-year-old filmmaker and director Jim Longden about humor and his Chronicles of a Tumour: «I thought if I’m going to die, at least I could have a legendary final...
The Mangrove roots build up nurseries for organisms and ecosystems
Protecting from predators, strong heat, and forceful tides mangrove roots help the biosphere and remove five times more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than terrestrial forests
Pol Taburet in the mind’s abyss – stages of trauma and occultism
Silent dramaturgies mix the symbolism of European painting with American rap, contemporary subcultures, and Afro-Creole quimbois. Pol Taburet at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris
Rough and primitive. Nellie Mae Rowe’s black art and the American folklore
From the cotton fields of Georgia to employment as a domestic worker at a white household, black artist Nellie Mae Rowe chronicled the feminist redemption of an African American
Design is a metamorphosis: the manipulation process of Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet
French designers Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet: «we use digital image manipulation tools: digital manufacturing is an area for bridging virtual and physical through objects»
Marcin Dudek – unfolding personal memories and identities as political spaces
Neoplan, the sixth Marcin Dudek’s exhibition at Edel Assanti in London – an autobiographical journey within the context of hooliganism, memory, and personal recollection
Sex sells – the evergreen myths in fashion: dicks and boobs
From Versace’s BDSM-inspired looks to Diesel’s mountain of condoms: has the sex representation gone too far? Or is it freedom of expression reaching its peak?
The thermoregulatory properties of hemp fiber
Hemp thermoregulatory properties are due to its natural conformation as a hollow fiber: micro air chambers for both textiles and construction
Canada with its 895 million acres of forest experiences wildfires every year
Experts have expressed concern about the potential impact of Canadian wildfires on two species in particular: the Whooping Crane, which is found in Alberta, and the Wood Poppy
Fashion designers into interior design: from Kawakubo to Owens – the first was Pierre Cardin
There are plenty of designers who have trained in architecture and industrial design, such as Raf Simons, Tom Ford, Gianfranco Ferré – dubbed the fashion architect, and Virgil Abloh himself
Another World: the body of the earth, the body of the woman
Shae Detar, and the book Another World – the shots were manipulated through a hand-painting technique popularized during the 19th century: she paints on top of her photographs
Igniting desire and teasing the imagination – the sexual energy in Spyros Rennt’s work
Exploring life, documenting intimacy and shaking emotions: a journey through Corporeal, the latest book by Greek photographer Spyros Rennt
Michael Brunt and Veronica Blagoeva chronicling their time’s fatigue
Twisting, turning, fidgeting in a tight jacket, limping in a pair of uncomfortable high heels, looking for comfort and finding none – Michael Brunt and Veronica Blagoeva for Lampoon Digital
Industrial hemp for food
A focus on hemp for human and animal diets, the market and regulations in the current Italian panorama
I Wish It Was Mine: the boundaries of reality are crossed, the imagination is unleashed
Ivan Moudov serves as artist and orchestrator of Alberta Pane Gallery's group exhibition I Wish It Was Mine, open to the public until July 29, 2023
Antibacterial Hemp for the textile industry: a question mark
From prosthetics to food packaging and textile manufacturing: potential applications of cannabinoid antibacterial properties
British photographer Guy Bolongaro has a Gut Feeling, Feeling
«Something about the way you taste makes me wanna clear my throat. There's a message to your movements that gets my goat» – Guy Bolongaro, overlapping photos and bodies out...
Linked – Schiele in conversation with Basquiat. Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris
The aura of the greats, perhaps too fragile to cope with world criticism, or even success. Genius and wildness. Luck or damnation
Queering, not finding answers: The Current III and the closing of a cycle at Ocean Space
Ocean Space 2023 program unfolded: a platform for inter-trans-cross-disciplinaries discourse. Simone Fattal and Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano use art to question and protest
Plant breeding – cracking plants’ clonal mode of reproduction to improve agriculture
If implemented in agriculture, the propagation process of a commercial hybrid rice strain through cloning explored in the 2022 study could lower the price of hybrid rice seeds
Samuel De Saboia – the nomadic artistic practice between material and spiritual
At the art residency Numeroventi in Florence, the Brazilian artist Samuel De Saboia talks about his artistic practice that explores sexuality, migration, and displacement
We are what we fuck: microplastics are invading the male reproductive system
Traces of plastic microparticles found in semen samples of healthy men: prolonged exposure to plastic pollution might be putting the future of humanity at risk
