Review
We do celebrate the vulva – Bex Day’s book PETAL
Over seventy shots celebrating the vulva and subverting the biased canons of the representation of the female nude in contemporary society – Bex Day’s first photographic book
Deciphering the myth that is the Big Four
Chronicles from NYFW and LFW – why are we still holding on to an old idea to recreate something new? This might be the time to rethink the old tradition...
Queerbaiting and Rainbow washing: from Harry Style to Frozen
Picture something that seems to start out with the best of intentions but ends up doing worse. The issue of queerbaiting opens the debate to human respect and the need...
Western inspirations, a review: Sophie Stafford analog photography
A collection of images before the fire, a memorial to the lost New Western Bingo and a celebration of its people. After the building burned down, Sophie Stafford’s 2013 analog...
Searching for roughness in the Spring 24 collections
The defect leads to failure, which can evoke a feeling of disappointment or misadventure in the face of the image mastered. Jeanne Lucas’ rough approach for Lampoon digital edition
Exploring ageism in social media: how is the affecting the humanity behind the screens
With adult creators facing TikTok ageism, social media might not be ready to reflect the realities of life beyond young adulthood, but it reflects Zoomer's ideas of age, youth, and...
And I need to forgive – Ashley Batz shoots Alici for Lampoon online
Photographer Ashley Batz in a story with artist Alici in an editorial for Lampoon digital edition: «my new songs are special moments from this summer trapped in time. Like little...
Not only street style, a walk in the Parkside is a precise code
Washed-out photographs in a light that reflects on femininity and womanity. Aliocha Wallon's analog photography for Lampoon online is a sluggish ode to street life and effortless freedom
Fuck-it expense, Gen Z: the digital consumer mis-behavior
Fuck-it expense – how do you spend your time when you think the world is ending? Gen Z consumer behavior reflects human fragility and a generation of frustrated young people
Couture SS 2024: make fashion great again
Fashion has a tendency to look back in order to be able to move forward. The German philosopher Walter Benjamin described how this could be a new way of looking...
Is aesthetics formed on the Internet? Bored generations and web hypnosis
Rituals for bored generations or a new way of composing reality? The web hypnosis and the Internet aesthetics on our relationship with the real dimension
Exploring human fluidity in digital spaces: gamification and self-expression
A deep dive into the gamification’s role in shaping Gen Z virtual identities: self-determination, human fluidity and the potential risks of alienation: Roblox and Fortnite cases
The Role of Black – in fashion and human history
More than just a color – exploring the intersection of fashion, culture, and humanities by tracing attraction of black in the tapestry of western fashion history
Couture – no Opulence any more, but responsibility
Anything that appears opulent today turns out to be out of time, out of the human context we are living in – opulent fashion is not current, it is waste...
Princess Tāj-al-Salṭana: she was beautiful, indeed
Today we see her as ugly, but Princess Tāj-al-Salṭana was a symbol of womanity, feminist struggle and a pioneer of intersectionality. History of the woman who influenced Persia
Pharrell Williams: the nomad who landed in fashion
An overview of all the experiences that have led the music producer to head Louis Vuitton's creative direction: from rap music to catwalks on the Pont Neuf
Digital Roughness – Quality control: Paul Whitfield and Marianthi Hatzikidi
A dynamic feel to this project morphing the subject into a revolutionary warrior – Paul Whitfield and Marianthi Hatzikidi for Lampoon online reflect on the roughness of the digital image
Love in the time of migration. Lesyev and Yaakov in the lens of Gianmarco Onofri
A real love story that begins accidentally with a chance meeting in a bar. A photographic story by Gianmarco Onofri about tenderness and acceptance, human diversity, sex and respect
Retro-Futurism – Human Fragility and the reminiscence of Eighties aesthetic
The Eighties are often referred to as the decade of decadence – A Retro-Futurism editorial, a reminiscence of Eighties movies aesthetic and the fascination for office environments
Take Flight – Betty Oxlade-Martin analog photography for Lampoon online
Taking visual queues from the work of Martin Parr, Sophia Coppola, and the books of Enid Blyton, Betty Oxlade-Martin’s story investigates the naive feel of childlike pleasures
When real life can be extraordinary, why Dream About Nothing?
Nature and artifice, beauty and roughness – reality according to the photographer Bobby Doherty. The hallucinatory imagery and still life photography of his latest book Dream About Nothing
Pope Francis allows blessings for gay couples, using Artificial Intelligence
AI by Angelo Formato Lampoon Digital: using artificial intelligence to imagine the church as a place definitely open to positivity and inclusion – is Pope Francis approving or not?
Benjamin Hampson – Crimson joys of youth, vivid and bright, Mellow into gold with the fading light
A spectrum of life, in every fold and crease. Each color a chapter, in the art of peace. With grace they walk, in life's runway show, Benjamin Hampson analog photography
Lampoon Digital: womanity not fragility: Cianfarano following Buccelli
Following her, womanity and human fragility. An encounter between a photographer and a woman. Luigi Cianfarano and Chiara Buccelli for Lampoon online tap into the movie Blow Up
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...
