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Snails: love darts, reciprocal insemination, and polyamorous courtship rituals
Yuri Tuma, co-founder of the Institute of Postnatural Studies: snail mating behaviors that complicate pleasure, violence, and post-patriarchal sex narratives in backyard biodiversity hotspots
Snails as Symbols: from garden pest to cultural mirror
Snail mucin, gardening blogs, Derek Jarman, and heterotopias: a multi-layered reading of the garden as a metaphor for systemic violence
Humans can learn from the cooperative system of bees
3. Photographer Maurizio Annese visits Cascina Linterno in Milan to explore the dynamics and hierarchies among bees. In his shots, the investigation of a complex social structure becomes inspiration
Les Lalanne — originality in an era of covers and revivals
For François and Claude Lalanne, a hippopotamus becomes a bathtub. Whether at an exhibition or an auction, this is how collectors' obsessions start
Inside a global boom of snail mucin in beauty
The great snail rush: exploring the global supply chain, ethical farming innovations, scientific research, and the cultural evolution that turned an unlikely ingredient into a cornerstone of the beauty industry
Lampoon SOAP: the new issue. We like it dirty and soapy
Editorial introduction to the new issue of Lampoon, SOAP, available in bookstores and some of the best newsstands worldwide from October 2025: soap and pure water, souls and stains, microplastics...
Cashmere and beyond: the infrastructures that hold Loro Piana together
Across continents and climates, from Mongolia’s steppe to Italy’s factories, the infrastructures behind Loro Piana’s materials reveal a complex web of relationships between herders, scientists, and artisans
Why re-reading old images is a subversive act?
Rodrigue de Ferluc reassembles Paris Match archives to question the meaning of images and their reuse —from glossy celebrity portraits to war reportage—in an era of algorithmic control
35 years of Galleria Continua: “we’re ordinary people, without powerful families behind us”
Interview with Lorenzo Fiaschi, Maurizio Rigillo, and Mario Cristiani of Galleria Continua on 35 years of activity: short supply chains, slow routes, reuse, and CO₂ in San Gimignano
Palm Heights and the Cayman Islands: hospitality as cultural infrastructure
From stratified migration policies to postmodern beach resorts, the Cayman Islands reflect global contrasts. Palm Heights operates as an annotated archive of objects, rituals and temporary alliances
Sander Lak: navigating the industry with deadstock and smaller scale production
A conversation with Sander Lak on leaving Sies Marjan, exploring work beyond fashion, and returning with a label built on deadstock fabrics and creative independence
Matthieu Blazy at Chanel: What Does It Mean?
A creative director and some consistency: is Matthieu Blazy ready to redefine the visual narrative of Chanel? A story of craftsmanship, material research, and a less ephemeral idea of celebrity...
Heatwave in the village, the sun is at its highest
French photographer Maxime Ballesteros working with stylist Damèse Savidan depicts an afternoon outside the scorching city life for Lampoon, the Muscles issue
Sex toys for straight men: even hard boys want to play
Once grooming and skincare defined the so-called metrosexual—today, straight men embrace sex toys as tools for self-exploration and intimacy. From Sonia Rykiel’s duck-shaped vibrators to Harry Styles’ Pleasing Yourself
The art of exit: fashion designers writing their final chapter
From Sunnei’s auction-like finale to Alexander McQueen’s silent salon and Tom Ford’s boardroom battle: each exit reshaped not only a personal career but the direction of entire fashion houses and...
Jack Johnstone: the Bauhaus school between esotericism and mathematical rigor
Inspired by the German school of design, Bauhaus, British photographer Jack Johnstone brings back the human body as a constitutive element of theater and performance
Why mining for EVs and renewables is dirtier than we think
The environmental impact of EV mining: Vince Beiser explains the invisible supply chains, hidden machines, and raw materials behind smartphones, EVs, and modern life
Cattail: the wetland plant can restore Dutch peatlands and provide fiber for textiles
As the Dutch countryside sinks into clay-rich peat, Studio RietGoed turns resilient cattail into a dual solution—restoring waterlogged soils while developing plant-based textiles for tomorrow’s fashion
Trees and city: Khao Yai Art Forest and Bangkok Kunsthalle
From the reuse of a burnt printing house to a forest-laboratory: Stefano Rabolli Pansera recounts Khao Yai Art Forest and Bangkok Kunsthalle through reforestation, renewable energy, water monitoring, and material...
Are the new creative directors interested in sustainability?
A retrospective on whether and how the new creative directors are addressing sustainability – from small independent brands to major fashion houses, from Duran Lantink to Balenciaga
Who said carbon is a market? When offsetting becomes upsetting
“Outsourcing the consequences of your own bad decisions is not the path.” The illusion of carbon neutrality: why climate change can’t be solved by buying carbon offsets and outsourcing responsibility.
Gucci’s path toward sustainable circularity
Reforestation through One Tree Planted and resale on The RealReal, Gucci's ongoing commitment to social and environmental responsibility
What does it mean to be Magnifico? a shooting by Nick Knight from Lampoon Archive
No one ever loved a man sitting on his throne, detached from the earth, soaked in his clouds – Nick Knight defining Magnifico mastering his art and photography
Transitioning – When tigers used to smoke even monkeys used to fall
«Will the mask have a conventional role or can it be a revealer?» -Louis Canadas considers a mask as a processor for a new personality
Who’s afraid of the father? Camille Lévêque rewrites paternal mythologies
Through collage, family archives, advertising images, and political propaganda, photographer Camille Lévêque dismantles the traditional father figure, exposing patriarchal myths in À la recherche du père
Setchu: Satoshi Kuwata on Japanese principles and the leather supply chain
“I traveled to Zimbabwe, met the people, saw the process. I didn’t want an abstract version of sustainability.” An interview with Setchu’s Satoshi Kuwata on materials and transparent sourcing
Sex and politics make us dirty: Peter Cameron
Writing without filters, dirty minds, clean pages: conversation with American writer Peter Cameron about sex, shame, and the stories we hide
What Braids Mean Across Time? Heritage, Resistance, and Reinvention
From ancestral codes to fashion runways, braids stand as cultural language and visual archive, linking heritage with reinvention
Post-plastic imaginaries: Sarah Schönfeld and the ecological politics of cleansing rituals
Ideas of cleanliness frequently conceal underlying cultural fears: anxieties about control, the illusion of purity, and the unsettling reality of the body as an open, porous system. Schönfeld responds to...
Stockholm’s all-wood district: building with wood reduces carbon emissions and stores it
A city of wood: though there has been recent interest in Biophilic Urbanism and the existence of wooden structures, no project of this size has been created out of this...
Marie Davidson and the not sustainable logistics of the entertainment industry
In City of Clowns, Marie Davidson dismantles the pressure to always be visible: flights, luggage, check-in, endless lines, delays, cancellations
Marcell Dettmann on the cost of integrity: artistic credibility still matters in electronic music
In an industry where hype often overshadows substance, artistic integrity remains a radical act. Marcell Dettmann on rejecting major deals to embracing imperfection
Armani’s story is an explanation of work ethic
Giorgio Armani, the fashion paradox and the fight against consumerism: we don't need to produce in a continuous flow, we have to teach our customers to buy less
Rebekah Campbell, Colliding with the Walls
New York City, USA. Photography Rebekah Campbell, Styling Cece Liu
Durk Dehner – Sex between men is just plain manly, no matter what position one takes
Durk Dehner of Tom of Finland Foundation dissects one of the many elements that define the queer as a community and a tribe, the roots of the sexual attraction the...
Linder Sterling: the ultimate recycler of pornographic imagery
An interview with artist Linder Sterling – armed with a surgeon’s scalpel, she cuts away at imagery from magazines to create visual narratives exploring the body and mind of feminism
What does “editorial” mean? Redefining an overused word
A publisher is someone who guarantees the context and the trust that this context promises: the publisher allows creative talent to freely express themselves always within a shared message
A Sixties villa show the rough character of Atlantic France
Far from the clichés of the Côte d’Azur, a house becomes a stage for reinvention. In the windswept Basque town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Marie Schuller captures her mother in her house
Pol Anglada on Tom of Finland, Anonymous Johns, and Queer Eroticism
From Tumblr awakenings to Tom of Finland’s ghosts, Pol Anglada’s drawings spit in the face of sanitized queerness and dare to stay raw—hair, sweat, rough bodies and fragile intimacies sketched...
Beyond the Individual: Gabriele Rosati, between flesh and screen
From body to surface: a visual investigation by Gabriele Rosati into the transformation of identity and energy through technology, digital presence, and human contact
On resisting digital noise: Torus is building an underground sound
From refusing OpenAI's Super Bowl ad to building underground sound installations and surviving bureaucratic shutdowns—Torus on rejecting algorithmic culture and improvising through failure
New York City civic power and urban planning: neighborhoods contested
From Elizabeth Street Garden to Willets Point, and through East Harlem, Port Morris, and East New York: urban transformations in New York's neighborhoods
Clara 3000: the music industry’s demand for branding is unsustainable
For DJ Clara 3000, the dancefloor is a space for political resistance — a radical alternative to a music industry increasingly driven by branding, repetition, and the erosion of artistic...
Florence: from cultural heritage to an open-air stage of fakes
Photographer Louis De Belle investigates how mass tourism, obsessive visual reproduction, and urban trompe-l’œil strategies have contributed to a distorted identity of Florence
Glyptic: an ancient craft saved from oblivion by one Maître d’Art, Philippe Nicolas
A jewel depends on the level of exhaustion of its creator. Métiers d’art: the art of carving stones and gems in high jewelry – calling it ‘glyptic’ may be reductive,...
Fire Island: America’s gay community utopia has changed
New York’s gay mecca used to be only for the community – now straight families are undermining the dream. An interview with Slava Mogutin and Gio Black Peter
