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Consumerism and Built-in Obsolescence, in Counterpoint to Adriano Olivetti
An implied contradiction: Formafantasma’s reflection on consumerism and Technological Obsolescence takes place in Venice at the Olivetti store—a primary reference for the purpose economy
Andrei Ujică: An Aesthetic Eye on Revolutions
From the fall of the Soviet Union to the arrival of the Beatles, the Romanian master filmmaker Andrei Ujică’s work draws on archival footage to depict the upheavals of the...
Why Rome’s Palazzine Matter to Global Architectural History
The palazzina took shape within the milieu of a prosperous upper-middle class: the architects and key figures who reshaped the Eternal City between the 1930s and the 1980s
Amanda Ba, For Sports: Finding Culture in Athleticism
The rawness is being willing to take an L and take a risk and change something. Maybe it'll make you less popular than you were before, but you're trying something...
Dior show at Villa Albani Torlonia: the garden where Neoclassicism was born
In the garden that served as a laboratory of Neoclassicism—where Winckelmann and Cardinal Albani reinvented the dialogue between ancient art and nature—the show is a tribute to the cultural ties...
At the Biennale, it’s all sweat: a trillion trees—nothing else will save us
Introduction to Carlo Ratti’s Architecture Biennale: the lone subject is sustainability—a “mind-boggling” number of trees, humanity on its knees, sweat, heat, and a bacterial population boom
About the Circle: Eduard Sánchez Ribot explores roundness
Roundness is the oldest gesture in design, and yet it still finds fresh ways to speak. In this series Eduard Sánchez Ribot wanders that endless curve, pairing icons of craft...
Mathis Chevalier – leave it to an MMA fighter to destroy toxic masculinity
As a teenager, Mathis Chevalier had trouble fitting into the school system. MMA helped him with his anger and frustration, until he decided it was time to deconstruct machismo
Bas Smets: architecture must care for the survival of human beings, animals and plants
“These trees were planted by Napoleon in the 18th century—an early lesson in large‑scale reforestation that we would do well to emulate today.” Interview with Bas Smets, co‑curator of “Building Biospheres”
Yvon Lambert’s Paris outpost reinvents the classic gallery
Weaving a bookshop, a publishing house, and a spirit of serendipity into an ever‑shifting cultural laboratory – Yvon Lambert is currently showcasing Distances, the new exhibition by photographer Romain Laprade
Carlo Traglio: a collection, to be a good one, must include a mistake
«Making art is like making love; it is carnal, physical—we all make love, but not everyone makes art». In conversation with the owner of Italian jewelry house Vhernier
I stare at a location and think about how to make it queer
«I draw some stick people in awkward positions and hope the models can interpret my bad sketches», the way to AdeY brings inner world to life
Chanel and Italian manufacturers: acquisitions and a show on Lake Como
On the occasion of Chanel’s show in Como, the house’s commitment to shoring up the Italian manufacturers in its supply chain—stories and snapshots from the annals of Italian style
Anna Wintour and Donald Trump: same culture, same Boomer attitude
Met Gala 2025: the same useless swagger—because only money matters; no future, no sustainability. Trump’s “Drill Baby Drill” becomes Wintour’s “Drill Baby Dance”
Trees Are the Patrons of Architecture: Inside Carlo Ratti’s 2025 Biennale
“Reforestation has to begin in a concrete, local way—tree by tree, sidewalk by sidewalk. It’s one of the few effective answers to overheated cities." An interview with Carlo Ratti about...
DJ Hell on Raw Analog Sound: Resisting Industry Over-Polish
I never want my music to sound too clean or safe; it needs an edge and a sense that anything can happen. My music is never about polished perfection: it’s...
Intertwined: Spyros Rennt baring an evolving vision of intimacy and selfhood
The archiving of softness, Spyros Rennt continues his documentary work, showing a side of queer subculture we haven’t seen from his lens before in his new self-published photobook, Intertwined
Can Juergen Teller be Just Like Us?
In 7 ½ at Sabbioneta’s Palazzo Giardino, Juergen Teller and Dovile Drizyte turns historic ceilings and raw snapshots into an intimate stage for love, legacy, and domestic spectacle
Joel Dicker: the Writer and the Publisher
When you take a game-changing decision, you don't understand what you’re doing. An interview with Joel Dicker, the worldwide bestselling author who decided to start his own publishing house, Rosie...
The Culture of Curiosity: Global Creatives on Raw Freedom and Responsible Innovation
Seven talents from the creative scene bring their vision to a Chanel special for Lampoon 31: from meme semiotics to feminist fantasy, each voice champions tactile experience and autonomy over...
Industry, Intimacy, Illumination: Ten Years of Lampoon at Dinner with Chanel
As Chanel prepares to present its Cruise Collection on Lake Como on 29 April, a Milan dinner for Lampoon Issue 31 marks the magazine’s decade in print
Oda Jaune Reclaiming Wings: Angels Among Ruins
Being religious was nearly a crime. At home, my parents trained me to answer school ques- tions carefully, to evade, to feign indifference. No one could know we were believers...
Community as brand infrastructure: Nada van Dalen and Rotterdam’s independent creative scene
Positioning is the asset – fashion designer Nada van Dalen, photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek examine what independence means in a globalised fashion system
Alessia Gunawan: Energia Nostalgia
We’ll take anything to free ourselves from that sense of nihilism we feel when we stand there, like fools, scrolling a phone screen
Rust and dust, Navajo weaving — “Canyon Road” by Ralph Lauren
Diamonds at the center of every blanket, a red once made from insects, and the sustainability of tradition: For its new Canyon Road line, Ralph Lauren Home tapped two Diné...
Beyond the ashes: Isabelle Albuquerque crafts eternal narratives of feminine agency
"I struggled with the disconnect between my internal femininity and my body. It was before the internet. It was isolating, but there was the Amazonians…" From her studio on the...
Boris Ovini: Like it Ever Mattered
Photography: Boris Ovini; Fashion and Creative Direction: Niki Pauls
Olivier Zahm: A Manifesto for the Independent Publishing Industry
An Interview to Olivier Zahm, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Purple Magazine, taken by Carlo Mazzoni, Editor in Chief of Lampoon. Independency: being creative today is not enough
Robin de Puy, beyond the Stereotype: A Dutch Photographer’s Journey Across the States
“I was frustrated with the way Americans are seen from the outside, especially from a European point of view.” Americans emerge as complex individuals with hopes, dreams, fears, and a capacity...
Deb Koo’s still life paintings pay homage to the fleeting moments that mold our lives
Saturated tones and pastel palettes intertwine in Deb Koo’s oil paintings portraying mundane moments, personal experiences and memories from her childhood
A Storm in Grandma’s Tea Set: Amit Berman on roughness and nostalgia
«Roughness has been present in my work since the beginning; as a self-taught artist, I used to paint naively, working with what I had and expressing myself in raw ways»...
What’s the afterlife of The Library of Light? An interview with Es Devlin
Es Devlin in conversation with Lampoon on Salone del Mobile’s Library of Light: mapping words, movement, and memory into Brera’s historic courtyard—shaping space through story
Oak, Wool, and Saddle Leather – Ralph Lauren Home and the American Southwest
At Milan’s Fuorisalone, Ralph Lauren is introducing “Canyon Road”: wool instead of linen, brown instead of green, surfaces that bear marks and stains, amidst mountains and desert. It’s a rougher...
Lampoon, the new issue, a tribute to the independent publishing: roughness and sustainability
The new issue of Lampoon is a tribute to independence: in publishing, music, and architecture. From Romain Laprade to Olivier Zham, from Joel Dicker to Caterina Barbieri, Mathis Chevalier, Isabelle...
Alice Rawsthorn on design, critique, and global challenges at Prada Frames 2025
Inside Gio Ponti’s Arlecchino with design critic and former New York Times columnist, Alice Rawsthorn at Prada Frames 2025. “I felt design was misunderstood, marginalized, not taken seriously. There was...
Marco Bay: botany for Louis Vuitton on Via Montenapoleone
With the reopening of Louis Vuitton on Via Montenapoleone, an interview with landscape architect Marco Bay about the project at Palazzo Taverna: the word “native” no longer makes sense—botany is...
An interview with Robert Wilson: he took a pen and draw an onion made of light
Bob Wilson x Michelangelo: La Pietà Rondanini in Mother, the opening exhibition for Salone del Mobile 2025: he took a pen and draw an onion made of light
Brunello Cucinelli: “I was a farmer, I was poor, I was crazy in love with the sky”
Imprenditoria etica: a Napoli, il conferimento honoris causa del dottorato di ricerca per il made in Italy a Brunello Cucinelli – un caso di sostenibilità umana e una domanda sul...
Rediscovering Marine Forests at Miart: Julian Charrière’s Art for Ruinart
Julian Charrière has conceived an ode to the Lutetian Sea, a vast body of water that covered the Champagne region 45 million years ago. At Miart, Ruinart continues its initiative,...
Lampoon, 10 Years – From the Digital Tribes to a Single Obsession: Sustainability
Ten years of Lampoon: our story, from college to a stool in the newsroom, all the way to the Digital Tribes and the fashion industry—then the world changed: the only...
Charlie Porter’s Nova Scotia House: A Raw Portrait of Queer Survival
“A portrait of queer life in 1990s London, exploring the impacts of love and loss, while rejecting nostalgic narratives in favour of survival". An interview with Charlie Porter on his...
Huasco Valley: Villages and Communities Abandoned at the Edge of Chile’s Desert
Photographer Cristian Ordóñez explores, through images, the last communities before the world’s largest desert capturing poverty, pollution, and lack of access to essential services in what is called the “Garden...
Approaching conscious young customers: Bvlgari jewels become an ethical icon
Lucia Silvestri: «I can use my position as Creative Director to share my experience, but I don’t consider myself a role model: my story proves that following real passions is...
Definition of Sustainability: Fashion Without Microplastics
It has become a common refrain—among buyers as well as certain managers—to say that sustainability doesn’t sell, when in fact sustainability simply isn’t on offer. The entire fashion industry is...
Neom’s The Line: Sustainable architecture, or grim dystopian future?
From a post oil focused Saudi Arabian economy, to developing carbon neutral, walkable cities with futuristic design and technology principles setting new standards for urban living
Ukraine, Georgia Slovakia and post-soviet heritage
Ukraine, Georgia Slovakia. Three different countries, at three different stages in the relationship with Russia. Ukraine, Georgia Slovakia: War, Protest, and Dissent
