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Cosmic Garden: safeguarding Indian craft manufacturing
The Cosmic Garden exhibition at the Venice Biennale is committed to the emancipation of women through craftsmanship – with the support of Dior. A dialogue with Karishma Swali, from the...
What is a 4D textile? Is the manufacturing sustainable?
The evolution of 3D printing is 4D. The case of the 4D-Knit Dress by MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab made using only a robot arm, computerized knitting and heat-activated smart textiles
Natural rubber: a raw material linked to deforestation
Between 1993 and 2016, an estimated 4.1 million hectares of forest were destroyed for natural rubber production, with almost three-quarters of this destruction taking place after 2001
Dominique White: a Black future hasn’t happened yet, but must
The Max Mara Art Prize for Women presents Dominique White’s work Deadweight – found objects gleaned from shipyards, such as sails, ropes and chains, retracing Black Diaspora and human fragility
Future Maniac, Tom de Peyret for Lampoon
Tom de Peyret portrays imposing psychological structures of the feminine, resembling gilded totems rising above dystopian and desolate scenarios
77th Cannes Film Festival: cinema meets controversy
While the red carpets promise to dazzle, underlying tensions threaten to overshadow the cinematic celebration – including political controversies, labor strikes, and a potential #MeToo reckoning
Benjamín Labatut: the fear of technology is a human experience
Benjamín Labatut technology and imaginations by exploring the limits of human thought – «We're all scared, when human beings are scared, they start to chart out the future»
Knitwear and wool: the future of a circular economy in textiles
Knitwear comes to the rescue with naturally sourced fibers and artisanal production processes with low environmental impact – some projects presented during the Loro Piana Knit Design Awards 2024
Is cloud seeding a real chance? Colorado and UAE cases
Cloud seeding: from pioneering experiments to contemporary scientific debates. Can weather alteration techniques makeup for land destruction by drought? The Colorado and UAE cases
Cartier Sidney: mirroring the universe
Cartier High jewelry manufacturing. Anna Pogossova for Lampoon, the Boiling issue, selected pieces that mirror the universe and cosmic phenomena in miniature playing with the AI
Hyperlocal installations produced with CO2 in mind – A Feral Commons (or: A Forgotten Place)
For A Feral Commons, Muhannad Shono studied unnoticed ecologies in Dubai’s urban Alserkal Avenue. He applied his rebellious manifestation philosophy to the industrial Al Quoz area
New York in Time: The Book That Encapsulates Near A Decade in Fashion With Johnny Cirillo
Johnny Cirillo joins Lampoon once again to discuss the release of his new book, documenting eight years of New York fashion through street style photography and interviews
Anna Wintour and Fashion Stories that Don’t Want to Be Banal
Anna Wintour's credibility falls like the data of some luxury companies: she no longer understands that time is passing by and finds TikTok as a sponsor for the Met –...
The Miyawaki: greenify urban sites
The concept of urban planning needs to take climate change into account: urban forestry initiatives adopting the Miyawaki method to plant forests are spreading throughout Europe
Beyond fluidity – Flaminia Veronesi: I am a Seaweed
«I no longer define myself by my name, my nationality, or gender. I feel the result of every sculpture and every painting I made» – the work of Flaminia Veronesi...
Clifford Prince King: the fluidity of flames
Late nights and early mornings, their bodies intertwined. The coming heat ignites first inside, then outside – Clifford Prince King’s humanity staged for Lampoon, Boiling issue
Jeremy Soma: We are magnets
The cinematic analog photography of Jeremy Soma for Lamoon, BOILING. Cartier Jewelry and Balenciaga dress are apart of this story for Lampoon
In service and servitude: Bless, a dogma or philosophy against ‘redundant’ work
Interview with Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag. Bless’ collaboration with Fendi for Design Miami/: «Everything has the right to exist, as long as it takes some responsibility»
Saut Hermès: the horse goes to the tailor
Hermès' first client? The horse. The second? The rider. A conversation with Chloé Nobecourt, Director of Hermès Equestrian Métier and the maison’s artisans on craft manufacturing
Bill Kouligas: rough sound and cultural zeitgeist
Bill Kouligas: the world doesn't need any more records. The role of a music label is becoming irrelevant according to the Berlin-based dj. Athens, dj culture, and a view of...
Geophony, what is this? Camille Étienne and Bernie Krause
Climate actions solution – French activist Camille Étienne and sound ecologist Bernie Krause confront in a dialog about Anthropophony, geophony, technophony
Silvia Prada and the joy of hiding out
Silvia Prada’s ‘fetishistic lens’ to explore the complexities of desire and representation – a conversation on the evolving landscape of queer music, fashion, history and what it means to be...
William Kentridge: «Identity is a continuous construction»
In Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot the South African artist reflects on humanity in a close dialogue with his alter-ego, a metaphor for the artist’s critical eye
Ottolinger and womanity: ready to unwear
«We felt something was missing for women in the fashion market». Ottolinger duo, Cosima Gadient and Christa Bösch, forms new vocabularies of the feminine and the thrust towards womanity
Nyahuet for Lampoon – sticks and stones may break your bones
«To have been born in this burnt-out geology of ashes, in the middle of the Atlantic, conditions any moderately sensitive being». César Manrique in Lanzarote
Hot tubes: Italian Design masters
Bourgeois-interior in a series of hidden spaces designed by Italian masters for Lampoon: Franco Albini, Gianfranco Frattini, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Cini Boeri, Claudio Salocchi, Nanda Vigo
Markus Pritzi evoking the flair
Photography Markus Pritzi, styling Adrian Bernal. Louis Vuitton for Lampoon: a trailblazing vision of the Maison's next menswear chapter
Gabbriette: Pure logic and no Reason
Born in Orange County to a multi-ethnic family Gabriette was the lead singer of the punk rock band Nasty Cherry, personally chosen by Charli XCX. Gabriette for Lampoon the Boiling...
Ai Weiwei: fuck the mundane structure
Ai Weiwei returns to Italy with the exhibition Neither Nor at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Tuscany. Between lego, antique stools and criticism to art critics, the artist confirms to...
Carsten Höller: Doubt is a mushroom
In a Western culture of doubt avoidance, we want to be decision makers. Doubts contain beauty we don’t recognize. Lampoon 29: an interview with Carsten Höller and some mushrooms
Jordan Firstman is the posterboy: excess is boiled over
People understand when something is bad and when it is good. People are praising bad art right now – in conversation with Jordan Firstman, the posterboy of Internet and his...
Tali Lennox: a tsunami of change
Tali Lennox interview with Lampoon, the Boiling issue: I like to capture the void in between where one has a physical or environmental eruption. Photography Olivia Malone, styling Carolina Orrico
Pelle Cass: crafting real-life scene manipulation
«Viewers can perceive my work as commentary on overpopulation or crowding. It's a dichotomy: the sense of anxiety juxtaposed with the shared happiness of being together» – Pelle Cass for...
A tribute to everything that boils. Lola Banet and Maty Drazek
From the water droplets that burst like the blisters on our skin, ravaged from walking barefoot on bitumen; to the sweat pouring down from our brows
Coco Gordon Moore: womanity and mundanity
Coco Gordon Moore in Lampoon story for Celine. Questioning feminism, womanity and the everyday mundanity of millennial life. Jiro Konami photography for the Spring 24 issue
Stella Rose Gahan: the cookie-cutter mold of pop stardom
Jiro Konami photographed Stella Rose Gahan for Lampoon, the Boiling issue in a special editorial for Celine. On self-expression, humanities, and the feminine-masculine unconscious sides
The Boiling Lampoon: the new Spring issue: saliva and bubbles
The new Spring issue is out worldwide: the Boiling Lampoon – a consideration to everything that boils. From the saliva we blow bubbles with, to the sex that warms our...
Insights from Gen Z on love, life, and activism
The depth of Gen Z's perspectives on love, fears, and happiness, challenging stereotypes and advocating for change. Photographer Jan Philipzen and stylist Ina Witzel for Lampoon online
Brands and independent publishing: the Bottega Veneta case
Today brands play a role in the promotion and diffusion of independent fashion publishing which seems to be experiencing a new golden age – the Bottega Veneta fanzine
The link between hemp and female empowerment
Hemp cultivation as a form of female empowerment and womanity. The story of the European beguines and the hemp work that inspired the Sisters of the Valley
What is Niksen, the Dutch concept of doing nothing?
Cultural roots of Niksen: Dutch work-life balance and doing nothing. How Dutch culture values leisure time alongside productivity. Human respect, private life, personal growth
Fashion is not inclusive yet – the disabled community speaks out
The case of Will & Well. The disabled community has been left behind in the movement to make fashion inclusive. Adaptive apparel is underdeveloped within the industry
David Sedaris on his life without his father: I hate married couples
«I wanted gay people to have the right to marry just so they could spit on it later» – David Sedaris: homosexuality, relationship with father, sister's suicide, partner Hugh, writing
Bacterial stunts and molds at Margiela – from 1997 till today
Who remembers Martin Margiela’s bacterial stunt from 1997? Mold on clothes, multiplied in the backyards of contemporary museums. Retracing the technique used in the exhibition
Human diversity – camaraderie and Americana
Meeting at the intersection of modern Americana, human bond, and natural contact. A story of two young men in the setting of Los Angeles. Cole Fawcett for Lampoon digital
Deep Sea Mining: the new gold rush is for minerals
Deep-sea mining: ravaging the oceans in the name of transition. Norway is the first country in the world to say yes to finding raw materials in the ocean depths. Environmentalists...
