Review
Jean Cocteau’s drawings: explicit sexuality – It is all about poetry
For Cocteau, it was all poetry: a drawing blended with words, Jean Marais the lover and actor in Orpheus, his friendship with Peggy Guggenheim, a relationship with Natalie Paley, the...
The intersection of urban architecture and green spaces in Shinjuku City
Shinjuku's energy radiates through its streets, where modern skyscrapers cast shadows over ancient shrines and serene gardens – photographer Ramona Deckers for Lampoon
Reality as seen from a helicopter
Overcoming the banal beauty of the postcard landscape: stains are everyday realities, landscapes, scraps of life defined by chromatic contrasts
Obscene acts in a private space: gestures of a standard affair in a sunny afternoon
We want sex more than ever: an age of over exposure, the private versus the public - the obscene is the only fascination that still stands
Toile de Jouy: what does it mean?
«Chinoiserie possesses a sense of wonder, even if tinged by some sadness. I start from this, to express the amazement it communicates to me» – Richard Saja made the toile...
Negative Finances and the Luxury Crisis: Is It a Matter of Good Manners?
The luxury crisis can be seen on the negative balance sheets. However, there’s a sociological issue that might seem distant, yet it affects our daily lives and those who conduct...
The Soundtracks of the Runways – How Music Becomes a Tool for Storytelling
The SS25 fashion weeks were not short of intentional soundtrack choices, reflecting deeper themes within the collections and activating an emerging audience of Gen-Z consumers through music marketing
Pierre Bergé – the man is an icon, portrayed in a visionary dialogue with musician Teodor Currentzis
Bergé was a businessman, great collector, patron and cultural agitprop interested in Le Monde and Tetu, a gay rights activist and a leading name in the battle against AIDS
Kiki Smith: legends, fairy tales, and religious icons
Bronze sculptures and small-scale paintings are set up inside the Galleria Lorcan O'Neill as within a temple or a church
Hedi Slimane left Celine: the Evolution of a Brand Through its Designers
After seven years with Celine, Hedi Slimane left, two days after presenting the collection Un été français. An analysis of a brand that has been a blank canvas for its creative...
The Fashion Month: is there any sustainability? Only 10 looks here to talk about
Ten looks out of over two thousand: a selection that calls for sustainability, after witnessing a month of non-stop fashion shows – we ask for no plastic, no prints, no...
Milan fashion between decadence and reset: craftcore is the future
Analysis and consideration of the Milan fashion shows: what direction should fashion take for the Italian industry to remain positive?
In the Dior show, Charli XCX embodies the message of inclusivity
Maria Grazia Chiuri's Dior Spring-Summer 2025 collection set to the beats of FKA twigs’s "Eusexua" and Charli XCX and Billie Eilish’s “Guess,” the show took place under a tent in...
Mina and Balenciaga have much in common
Balenciaga Music | Mina Series. A parallel between two seemingly distinct artistic paths: Mina and Don Cristóbal both lived uncompromising lives in pursuit of abstraction
Nicola Piovani on the Italian directors: Fellini, Bellocchio, Moretti
Stream of consciousness: Nicola Piovani discusses film scoring, 200 movies, and his relationships with some of the many directors he has worked with: Federico Fellini, Marco Bellocchio, Nanni Moretti
Saodat Ismailova: tigers, silk, cotton and the Uzbek cosmic embroidery
Working with dreams, oral narratives, silk, and glass, filmmaker and artist Saodat Ismailova’s work at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca explores the entangled histories of Central Asia
Homo Faber: much wonder and a bit confusion
From the Goose Game to the Globes for the Sun King, passing through a child’s playroom, phosphorescent plastics, and paints: Homo Faber 2024 on the Island of San Giorgio in...
«Am I dreaming or awake?» – the schizophrenic work of Cinzia Ruggeri
Spell and reality by Cinzia Ruggeri. In conversation with Luca Lo Pinto, creative director of Cinzia says..., the ended exhibition at MACRO in Rome that is moving to London
All the contradictions in Oasis’ reunion
It’s easier to imagine an Oasis reunion than the end of capitalism. Some Internet genius twisted the famous quote from Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. It's all about money?
A library of swimming pools
«I hate rectangular pools – are lakes and rivers ever rectangular? I want pools for water nymphs, for diving into from a high tree, with a swim-up bar» – Gio...
Two sisters flee their troubled home
With nothing but the clothes on their backs and a flicker of hope in their eyes, they embark on a journey into the unknown
Three sisters out in town
Three sisters meet to share again their bond – Angelique Canu for Lampoon digital. Softness, materials and colors through the medium of analog photography
A journey into the American myth: John Spyrou’s reportage from New Mexico
«I never take any highways and always try to take the back-roads through towns», Spyrou's reportage in the Deep America – Lampoon Digital Edition
Mara Palena and the ungraspable side of memory. Oikeiôsis the ultimate human experience
Mara Palena studies the gap between the recorded self and the present – «It's out of my control. Something that fascinates me is always a moment in between two moments»
Becoming brothers on a sun-drenched beach
Laughter, raw and unrestrained, harmonizes with the symphony of the ocean, painting an ephemeral masterpiece of joy
Louis Headlam: Aegis Beyond the Fabric
Raised in London, Louis Headlam harnesses the city's contrasting energies to influence his photoshoots
Jara García Azor: Go as a dream
By reclaiming their own sense of intimacy, these women challenge traditional Western painting norms and resist the objectifying male gaze and prioritize self-representation
Jake Gyllenhaal is the hottest man alive
Mastering the boy your parents would hate in Donnie Darko and the boy your girlfriends would be suspicious about in Brokeback Mountain; there is something about Jake Gyllenhaal that lets...
New York and collections that burn
Opposites attract: photography Cole Fawcett, styling Michael Andrew Rosenberg. Kurt Cobain didn’t like Marc Jacobs’ 1992 collection for Perry Ellis. Not long after the show, Jacobs sent him a few...
The code of conduct for Berlin Fashion Week SS25
As Berlin Fashion Week continues to evolve, it promises to inspire and challenge the fashion community worldwide, driving forward the ideals of creativity, diversity, and sustainability in the years to...
Hats and black cloths as a tribute to history
Kevin Félicianne's photograph is inspired by The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense – a revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1966
These athletes are not real
Models ready to present their sport in front of a jury, hoping to be selected for the Olympics – and some of these sports have never been part of the Olympic...
Christoph Büchel at Fondazione Prada: a politically-charged trompe l’oeil project on debt
Fondazione Prada in Venice transformed into a pawnshop – Swiss artist Christoph Büchel on the notion of debt and the many declinations of it, from the religious to the economic
Linus Borgo’s mermaids: transness, disability, and bodily differences
Linus Borgo delves into mythological themes, depicting creatures like mermaids and other part-human-animal figures. «I absorbed Catholic imagery, Celestial beings are ingrained in me»
Stories of Milan – il Rubanuvole: the San Babila skyscraper tower
The story of the Rubanuvole skyscraper by architect Alessandro Rimini; the 1960s BBPR and the synthesis of Piazza Meda: the Great Master of Italian urbanism and design
Fashion at the Dinner Table: Serving Bottega Veneta and Duck(Walk)
Bottega Veneta for the fathers who dare to love and Ballroom for those who dare to love differently: an exploration of fashion's ability to redefine family perceptions and structures
What is the Best Hotel in Italy? Excluding Personal Opinions
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
Hugo Denis-Queinec: 24 hours in Hackney district, London
When all maps failed, cigarette-burnt jackets, beer flavored tongue, dead phone battery, gas holders at a distance chance encounters all became temporary geographical attempts at self-location
Unsettling: Gigi Spelsberg inhabits a new space
We see her old possessions wrapped and bound, in a studio space void – tentatively being moved into their new environment which is still under construction
The Dragon in the House: Alessandro Michele at Valentino
The Dragon's Tail in Fashion: A Collection of 260 Images: Rough Culture, Bestiaries, and the Non-Aesthetically Correct in Alessandro Michele's Debut at Valentino
Born in Oasi Zegna – the book
A visual and tactile experience whose pages range from rough texture to superfine, an allegory for the natural raw materials that Zegna has been using since its foundation
Emilia Staugaard and the genesis of a Daydreams
You are sitting quietly, and suddenly your brain tunes out the world and wanders to something else entirely – perhaps a recent experience, or an old memory. You just had...
The other Capri: keeping it rough at the Jacquemus fashion show
The meeting point between Villa Malaparte and Jacquemus is both the brand's founding and the long history of artists' fascination with the villa, its aesthetic, and its secretiveness
From Villa Malaparte to the Quisisana – Capri, rough with no decency
A conversation takes place in the garden of the Quisisana hotel about Capri, the roughness of the island with no decency: talking with Cesare Cunaccia. Meanwhile, Jacquemus is at Villa...
Milan, Italy: Boyy and Fos are crafting an expressive shelter as a shop
Fos is all about pollination when it comes to spaces. For their Milanese store, Boyy collaborated with the Danish designer to enhance their zesty pieces
Rohrwacher’s La Chimera – a tapestry of human fragility
In La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher takes the viewer on a journey with a gang of tombaroli on an unnamed small Italian village's streets, fields, and woods in the 1980
