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Hemp scutching: the process to separate the fiber from the hemp hurd
The process of hemp scutching – Hemp fiber must be free from the woody hemp hurd (also named canapule): the difference between short fiber and long fiber
Hollywood writers on two months of strike out of fear of being replaced by AI
Why the Hollywood Writers’ strike matters: the Writers Guild of America has stated that while series budget has increased, writers’ share of pay has shrunk
Nude photography book as explorative therapy. Mackintosh and the body
«I have to remind myself how this can become a safe space for somebody, honoring them for being brave». Talking bodies and wildlife with Caroline Mackintosh new book
Charlotte Perriand hidden work: The Japanese Ambassador’s residence in Paris
The building on rue du Faubourg St Honoré in Paris is the concept subversion of domestic space conceived by Charlotte Perriand – an incursion of Japanese minimalism
The ‘Cancel Culture’ trend: LGBTQ+, call for accountability or a social punishment?
Philippines is reportedly examining legislation to outlaw cancel culture as members of the conservative party feel threatened by pro LGBTQ+ online activists
Loewe SS24: Jonathan Anderson’s exploration of craftsmanship
Lynda Benglis fountains and celebrity attendees add star power to the Loewe SS24 Menswear collection at Paris Fashion Week
Siamo Foresta, the Yanomami community: with Sheroanawe Hikihiiwe and Fabrice Hyber
We all have one goal for forests: to render them alive once again. Yanomami artist Sheroanawe Hikihiiwe and French-based artist Fabrice Hyber have created four hands for Siamo Foresta
Fashion Film Festival Milano 2023 counts a new category: the Best Metaverse Fashion Film
From niche-shorts to the Metaverse – jury-selected films from around the world: the winners of the sixteen competing categories announced on June 19 at the Fashion Film Festival in Milan
Haitian heritage and discarded toys jewelry — Botter 2024 show in Paris
During Paris Fashion Week, Caribbean couture Botter introduced a new 3D printed slippers, made discarded toys jewelry and crafted knitwear out of up-cycled Scooby Doo yarns
Siamo Foresta: path in Triennale Milano, Luiz Zerbini brought trees into a room
A tree-lined path conceived by Luiz Zerbini and a forest within the museum walls: an exhibition by Triennale di Milano and Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
If human stupidity destroys forests, artificial intelligence can save it
World Rainforest Day 2023: Conserve. Restore. Regenerate. This year’s theme captures the role that AI and Indigenous rights play in saving rainforests
Hope, recognition, and devotion – Pharrell Williams debut at Louis Vuitton
In Paris, Pharrell Williams unravels the LVers Menswear collection, an imitation of his eclecticism – the artist's debut as creative director for Louis Vuitton
«As a kid, I was into animatronics and wooden things» recalls Bethan Laura Wood
A Mexico residency for British designer Bethan Laura Wood: «It's brutalist architecture, but it also has a big conversation with the pre-Hispanic architectural detailing»
Unpacking Casa das Canoas (1953), Oscar Niemeyer: making concrete sexier
Immersed in the lush of Tijuca forest, Niemeyer’s Casa das Canoas blends with the natural environment of water, rock and vegetation thanks to the large transparent, undulating walls
Climate change awareness and weight among the public – an international perspective
A report published ahead of COP27 by Ipsos showed that sixty-five percent of British citizens support subsidies making environmentally friendly technologies cheaper
UN’s Convention to combat Desertification highlights gender inequality issues
Women play a role to ensure the health of the land. The UN’s Convention educates about effectively working the land and destroying barriers for women
Workaholics vs. artisanship, the Fendi collection is for men who create
Using the Fendi Factory landscape as inspiration, Silvia Venturini reveals its sphere of development. The menswear line comes as a praise to the production chain
What happens in Milan stays in Milan. Dear reader, don’t read
Benedetta Spreafico, Matei Octav, Tea Barbagallo team up for a story where escapism seems the last chance of contemporary man choked by society's self-imposed
Skyscrapers rise, New York sinks: How the many buildings are making the city sink
New research has found that New York City is sinking at an average rate of 1-2 mm per year. The Big Apple is in a race against time to find...
Felipe Escudero and the architectonic revolution in Quito – a reportage
An Architect from Ecuador is rebuilding Quito based on his Stanley Kubrick aesthetic passion. Felipe Escudero, brings a holistic approach prioritizing the positive impact on the surrounding community
Using beauty and ugliness together – Thirza Schaap’s plastic waste sculptures
Hidden behind the surface – In her photographs, Dutch artist Thirza Schaap uses plastic waste as a material to create sculptures that mix daintiness and disgust
The topoi of human history – present and past in Pietro Ruffo’s work
Geographic maps and writing, geometric overlays and experimentation with different materials: the breakdown of Pietro Ruffo’s operas and career
Objects of Common Interest: design is halfway between ephemeral and concrete
Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis are the creative minds behind the design duo Objects of Common Interest: Milan Design Week, Poikilos at Nilufar Depot
World Oceans Day: the impact of offshore oil and gas on the oceans
The Rosebank oil and gas field located 130 km from the Shetland archipelago could affect 16 British Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): the World Oceans Day
Quira: an insight into contemporary femininity through the materiality of clothes
Veronica Leoni, finalist at the LVMH Prize 2023, recounts herself and her brand Quira through the names of the people and places that have defined her path
In conversation with Jayden Elijah: «I was a quiet kid, well that’s what my mom says»
Currently seen starring in Oscar-nominated filmmaker Dee Rees newest TV show, Saint X, Jayden Elijah, opens up to Lampoon digital edition
COP28 – we had 27 conferences already and still no real outputs
UAE Dubai's COP28: Nations around the world have taken measures towards dealing with the climate catastrophe, but with time its consequences have only worsened
Green is burning: Andriu Deplazes’ first Italian solo show at Collezione Maramotti
When something is burning it recalls us that «we are closer to the actual war that is happening now than we think we are», explains Deplazes about his exhibition
What does the Rana Plaza disaster mean for the fashion industry after ten years?
The biggest disaster that happened in the fashion world and caused by the sick logic of the system, how the industry evolved
The ordinary absurdity of mundane lives – Marivan Martins for Lampoon online
«This series is an ode to it. It is totally ordinary and totally cheesy. It is about trying to watch the royal wedding. It is about feeling special on your...
Dear Diary: a teen drama photo editorial by Andrea D’Auria, Lampoon Digital Edition
«Dear Diary, I wanted to tell you that I have nothing more to tell you. Everything that happened cannot be written» – Andrea D'Auria for Lampoon Online
Design and humankind: Marcel Wanders, the AI speculation in Milano with Moooi
«We are a design company, not a styling company», a talk with Marcel Wanders and the EveryHuman's Algorithmic Perfumery, a project for Moooi
Tearing down love from its pedestal — introducing Ryder The Eagle
In conversation with French singer Ryder The Eagle, for the release of his newest album Megachurch: Tearing down love from its pedestal while keeping faith in life and music
Art at its highest altitude. The reality of Hauser & Wirth St. Mortiz
Giorgia von Albertini, director of Hauser & Wirth St. Mortiz, on her approach to contemporary art: «the opening in December 2018 was a natural extension of the gallery’s activities in...
Being a duo but individual collections: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
For the first time in more than twenty years of career, by Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec presents two separate collections for Flos at Euroluce 2023
Climate change and infectious diseases – understating how the arthropod vectors work
Climate change and arthropod vectors - new research shows that climate change is causing the diffusion of the arthropod vectors in higher elevations and latitudes
Fosbury Architecture, decentralizing spaces: Everyone Belongs to everyone else
Fosbury Architecture, a collective curating the 18th Venice Biennale, challenges the norms of the exhibition., «pushing people to go outside the outskirts of the Biennale»
SpazioSerra and Virginia Dal Magro – the undefined movement of traces and spaces
«It can become a concept of above and below, of visible and invisible, of natural and artificial». Observing the gap in between and the threshold in creation
Fabio Quaranta: what happens in the post-menswear era?
Fabio Quaranta: interdisciplinary collective instead of fashion brands, archives instead of collections - «I felt the need to lose the authorial, individual aspect»
«To catch an idea you need to go primitive»: a conversation with Guglielmo Poletti
Spring Studio introduces Guglielmo Poletti's work. The designer aims to display style as a derivation of structure. Construction becomes a meaningful aesthetic
From technology and transhumanism to creating tribes: Roberto Rigon’s graphic niche
What to expect from creative merging with artificial intelligence? A conversation with Roberto Rigon, the creative director that already uses it in editorial design
Naomi Accardi: a niche that involves football and fashion
«I also feel compelled that the time has come to allow others to have a voice» Naomi Accardi traces a path for sports and fashion storytellers
Dior’s feminist deployment marks Cruise 2024 show in Mexico
The French brand lands in Latin America to rediscover traditions and urges through the evocation of the figure of Frida Kahlo
Cristián Mohaded and Loro Piana: Apacheta, stone towers to mark your path
Through the Apacheta at Milan Design Week 2023, Cristián Mohaded and Loro Piana form a union rooted in Argentina, Territorio Hibrido
Fact-checking: is the use of coal making a comeback? – An international analysis
Expansion of renewables will lead to a decline of twenty-eight percent in the EU power sector's CO2 emissions by 2025 and in fossil fuel-fired generation from 2023
The roughness of your tongue: spotlight and retro lights, Thomas Aulagner
Between Fight Club and Trainspotting. photographer Thomas Aulagner and stylist Anaïs Kevorkian for Lampoon Digital Edition: cinematic touch, humidity and rough skin
