Review
Pills of lesbian fashion history. Eleanor Medhurst on diversity and Dressing Dykes
Human fluidity. Eleanor Medhurst highlights the value of fashion's overlooked role in lesbian history, throughout which clothing was a tool of self-expression and community building
Kevin Félicianne on Joseph Bologne: the Black Mozart symbol of a community
The dark knights of Bologne. Kevin Félicianne for Lampoon digital stage three black models in memory of Joseph Bologne. A violinist called the black Mozart, a musician symbol of a...
When the bag is jewelry, it becomes a safe haven asset: Hermès Kelly Morphose
The best way today to invest and make your savings pay off is to buy luxury handbags. A retrospective on Hermès Kelly Morphose and an editorial by Manon Clavelier and...
Camila Falquez raises social consciousness on BIPOC, Black, indigenous, people of color
BIPOC means Black Indigenous and People of Colour. A conversation with Camila Falquez, Latin America’s fashion photographer of the year, whose work focus is in on systemic racial injustices
A master according to Gio Ponti – Luis Barragán: his house and rough architecture
Rough walls that are the size of walls – screens on which the spectrum of the Mexican sun is projected. «My house is my refuge, an emotional architecture», architect Don...
No spicy no sexy – Lahu and Karen tribe and communities: Giacomo Riccardi
From the Lahu tribe in Thailand to the happy water offered in Buddhist temples. Giacomo Riccardi report to Lampoon digital the culture and habits of Indigenous communities in the Far...
French artist Angèle Metzger: exploring identity through multifaceted artistic journey
Awarded the prize for best actress for her interpretation of an intersex character in the series About Sasha, Angèle Metzger made her first ceramic show in Paris, presenting daggers with sleeping...
Francesca Cavalcanti and Aurora Troise: a shared experience of youth
Naples, where bonds are formed, identities are forged again. Francesca Cavalcanti and Aurora Troise on the fragility of youth and the human commitment of photography
It’s beginning to look a lot like a ‘spamming’ Christmas
Christmas spam hits the inboxes of journalists. This thin the line between journalism and advs turns the publishing industry into marketers. A Xmas inquiry with intellectual irony
Sharing life with a 100 kg pig: Feng Li’s human-animal friendship
Note Note Edition's latest photographic book. The intellectual humor of Chinese photographer Feng Li and his strange relationship of friendship with his pig rescued from a tragic fate
On alternate realities and ways of being – Alessandro Timpanaro and Luca Piscitelli
A story of two women, their strength comes from their fragility – a fashion editing from current Fall Winter season: Loewe, Bottega Veneta and one Rolex
Angie Couple, the post-analog era, The Dreamers and some intellectual irony
Between melancholy of a past only dreamed of and the intellectual irony of Angie Couple's analog photographs, the editorial mixes real with fictional – cinema is a reference
Alice Rosati’s aesthetics of collective fear: gothic literature and sci-fi visions
From alien invasions to eco-anxiety. The photographer Alice Rosati gives voice to collective fears through a post-apocalyptic scenario and her rough analog photography
Givenchy-a-ga: the designer and the creative directions of Givenchy
Adélia Sabatini and Alexandre Samson presenting a Givenchy catwalks book in Milan published by Ippocampo. A conversation on Givenchy
The evolution of work in art: human body is a brain, the hand a learning tool
What does working on art mean nowadays? Artists and creators as social actors in evolution – from Plato until the robots today, in conversation with curators Giulia Piscitelli Pier Paolo...
Bed bug panic in Paris – Internet psychosis or actual crisis?
The Internet cultural humor surrounding the bed bugs in Paris grows from the contrast between the glossy, picture-perfect idea of Paris and the reality of living and working in a...
Everything but butt – Grindr respects sex offering visibility to side people
The rise of side: «Top or Bottom? I'm a Side». Grindr becomes the first dating app to legitimize the presence in the LGBTQ+ community of sides: men who are not...
Want to see the world through Ruth Asawa’s eyes? Start from her drawings
Practice makes perfect: Ruth Asawa’s extensive, lifelong drawing production on paper, the fruit of the artist’s daily drawing practice, Through Line' Exhibition is now on display at the Whitney Museum
The Twink King: from Antinous to Troye and Timothée, the beauty of humanity
Questioning heteronormativity, queerbaiting and binary patriarchy. The twink issue opens a discussion on true inclusiveness within the gay community. Troye Sivan and a video by Timothée Chalamet
Fendi Couture, Lampoon Issue 28 – getting dressed is a work in progress
New life is breathed into a garment every time it is put on, as it’s almost never worn the exact same way twice. When the garment is passed onto another,...
Chanel Resort 23/24 at the intersection of global fashion, local culture and cinema
Chanel Cruise SS23/24 from Shenzhen Bay MixC’s cinema to via Montenapoleone in Milan. Celebrating Chanel’s womanity and Barbiecore
Future archeology – Louis Vuitton Resort 24, the show took place at the Isola Bella
Speaking of womanity. An aquatic to botanical collection, leaving the land to reconnect with the plant kingdom. The images by Alice Rosati and a fashion review by Lampoon Editor in...
Sayak Valencia: «Gore capitalism disrupts the Marxist model of consumption»
Sayak Valencia's research results on work conditions. Necropolitics and Gore Capitalism disrupt the Marxist model of production-consumption – the world of work is undergoing a radical change
Hyper-feminine styles – How is internet culture changing the trend cycle?
Girly pop trend – When it comes to fashion, the internet can act like a liaison, allowing people to voice and find words for their feelings and identities and people...
Phoebe Philo’s comeback to fashion: minimalism remains, but legs open up
After taking the helms at Chloé and Céline, Phoebe Philo launches her eponymous label with much anticipation from her devoted fans, the Philophiles
Lampoon, the working issue out November 7th – we are not looking for shortcuts
From Parris Goebel’s choreography to James Norton on stage, to young Italian men making ends meet on OnlyFans: work is always the first expression of human dignity
It was fun even a thousand years ago – even Medieval images were memeable
Dicks, killer rabbits, and giant snails: a look at Medieval humor – from the recent discoveries by Dr. James Wade to @weirdmedievalguys and @medievalmarginalia accounts
From the curvy movement to SS24, fashion forgot inclusivity beyond the catwalk
The last few seasons have confirmed this, after a wave in which the trend was the representation of everybody the fashion returns to extremely slim bodies, normo-typed and stereotyped
Jeremy Hutchison: «I’m interested in perverting dominant culture. Queering power»
Waste colonialism and consumerism, environmental and social justice: the British artist’s latest project, Dead White Man, investigates the fate of the used clothes we send to the Global South
DIVA – the power of Divas is on display at the V&A museum in London
Someone might have seen the dress Edith Piaf used to wear, or the two-piece ensemble Cher wore at the 1975 Rock Music Awards, before they ever listened to one of...
Yohann Truminski and Noémie Fourmeau, Flexible, an analogical work
«How many bend to the will of others, going against the grain of what we would like to be?» – Yohann Truminski and Noémie Fourmeau release analogic photography, Lampoon Online
Dressing with pride and without prejudice, Isa boulder for Lampoon online
Cecilia Basari and Yuli Suri «we delve into the realm of possibilities, seeking to refine the finishing touches of each garment and sculpt its silhouette by manipulating the tension of...
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...
Lampoon online – Primal Matter, Hector Tre: a physical, stoic way of expressing
The narrative thread of photographer Hector Tre’s story leads the viewer into a world where the natural, the raw and rough reflects the primitive and essential of the human
Human body has no angles. Maison Bernard, Théoule-sur-Mer: the organic, human-centric bubble house
In 2013, Maison Bernard became an endowment fund whose purposes are the protection and the perennity of Antti Lovag’s architectural work with Pierre Bernard and also a residence for artists
Chronicles from Northern India – Aziza Vasco and her travel empathic Journal
From the sacred spectacle of Varanasi and the Ganges river to the colors of Jaipur, to the Buddhist spirituality of BodhGaya. Aziza Vasco reportage in India for Lampoon online
Translators in Ukraine make humanitarian help possible, being their ears and voice
Ukrainian translators are often women who spent years abroad and learned other languages. They stepped up to help their country. A reportage from the war front
Corridors of Power – Joseph Kadow architectural reportage in Hong Kong
The subterranean power structures that design the space of domination. German photographer Joseph Kadow recounts the city of Hong Kong
95 percent upcycled materials at Duran Lantink’s Spring 2024 Collection
Duran Lantink’s journey from Amsterdam to Paris also marked a shift in creative vision, while keeping sustainable practices at the core of the brand
Azzedine Alaïa: heritage is a matter of future – speaking to Carla Sozzani
«He was always focused on what he wanted to do. It was not a matter of seasons, not a matter of the last trend, he was Alaïa and Alaïa was...
Casablanca’s trailblazing evolution and the inclusion of women’s fashion
Paris meets Moroccan inspiration, Charaf Tajer turns heads debuting his collection reinventing women’s fashion at the PFW SS24
How to feel alive during the holiday? Try dark tourism
How tv series turned dark tourism form a learning phenomenon to the idolization of serial killers, drug lords, and satanic cults – for the fun of it
Like Someone Alive – Dorothy Sing Zhang’s visual meditations on sleeping city-dwellers
Sleeping is an act that unites, humbles and humanises— Dorothy Sing Zhang’s series and photobook Like Someone Alive surveys and captures it, in all its sentimental beauty
The celebration of slowness: manufacturing and artisans in the SS24 of Cecilie Bahnsen
Cecilie Bahnsen emphasizes that the collection is a symbol of how the work evolves in the atelier and she wants to tell the story of each piece until it arrives...
Paris Fashion Week, Marni’s artisanal devotion by Francesco Risso
Sentimental tributes to Francesco Risso’s Parisian memories highlight the dedication that went into the Marni SS24 collection, presented as a guest show in Paris Fashion Week
Desert, NY city architectures, and CGI tech: a narrative for the RL888 bag
A phygital approach to the customer - Ralph Lauren’s project with House 888 is part of the brand’s broader reflection on the experiential possibilities offered by Web3
