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This section brings together interviews, reviews, and photography from the print edition, offering a direct view of contemporary culture and creative practices. Each piece reflects the magazine’s approach: sharp, critical, and without unnecessary embellishment. Readers explore conversations with artists, designers, and thinkers, visual narratives through editorial photography, and reviews that examine books, exhibitions, and projects. Magazine documents the work behind ideas and productions, connecting content from paper to digital. It’s not a showcase – it’s a place to observe, question, and understand how culture is produced and experienced, through the lens of Lampoon’s editorial vision.

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Fashion
Football shirt: the World Cup fetish and the reality show of the male body
From the terraces to fashion, the football shirt is the fetish of a libidinal economy worth 87.5 billion dollars, turning the World Cup into a reality show of the male body watched and consumed
Fashion
Unisex, androgyny, sex-less design: fashion has always been naked
From the androgynous Nineties to the gender-agnostic collections of 2026: fashion has spent a century trying to neutralize sex – but sex is stronger than fashion
Humanities
Hugh Herr builds the cyborg: prostheses the brain feels and controls as its own
After losing both legs at seventeen, Hugh Herr turned limitation into design, engineering prostheses that seamlessly connect flesh, skin, nerves and circuits through bidirectional neural interfaces
The Publishing Industry
Lampoon Ruvido — editorial identity and the coherence of a message
Lampoon Ruvido — from an American English vocabulary to ten years of publishing: the coherence of a message and the concept of rough
Fashion
Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Roman couture debut: Fendi after Fendi
The color people actually wear is black, Chiuri says, and she rebuilds a house on that diagnosis: a Fendi couture debut of severity, craft, and almost no fur at all
Textile Fibers
Wasted Waste: the Czech design project turning textile waste into a systemic question 
Wasted Waste began at a waste management facility on the Czech-Polish border – a design project on post-consumer textile disposal, first shown at Milan Design Week
Fashion
Versace after Alaïa: what Pieter Mulier will do with bondage
Alaïa and Versace: two opposing visions of sensuality that pulled fashion out of the drawing rooms of the wealthy and into the reality of the body. Mulier and Vitale: the two heirs?
Fashion
Correcting, sculpting, selling: Fashion’s permanent construction site 
For fashion low target brands, a Ford Mustang, a Coca-Cola bottle, and a female body obey the same logic: form, desirability, and market value. The industry's real economic engine
Fashion
Porn outlasts chic: why Hodakova escapes the boredom of fashion
Between corporate dungeons and tired sustainability, Ellen Hodakova Larsson rescues fashion from beige — discarded materials and fetish imagery to build a world far outside the conglomerates' rooms
Fashion
Couture is a dog’s life, and Piccioli signed up at Balenciaga anyway
For fall-winter 2026, Pierpaolo Piccioli stages Balenciaga's fifty-fifth couture collection around a Cité Universitaire courtyard, fusing tailoring and flou to prove couture still breathes today
Naturally Sourced
All about Hemp: the textile industry, fabrics and yarns, uses and operations
The only vegetable textile fiber that can be sourced in Italy is hemp. Scutching and retting are the two critical agricultural steps in a supply chain that supplies material to textiles, paper, construction and energy
Sex
The dildo: made in the Stone Age, banned by the Church, sold at Sephora
Female pleasure has always been somebody else's political problem. The history of an object every civilization made and most tried to suppress
Fashion
The Zeitgeist of Louis-Gabriel Nouchi: literature and Onlyfans
The reader on the metro and the OnlyFans subscriber are likely one person. Louis-Gabriel Nouchi has built an entire brand around that overlap, and SS27 is the latest chapter
Fashion
Why everyone in the room wanted to be a Celine man
While fashion keeps speaking an hermetic language, Michael Rider prefers the grammar of heat: skin, sweat, crumpled linen, and men who look like they live enough to wrinkle their own clothes
Fashion
Lazoschmidl: your grandmother’s print, your phone’s front camera
The most transgressive thing in menswear right now is a bathrobe worn out the door and a floral print that belonged to your grandmother – Lazoschmidl SS27 Daynight, Paris Fashion Week
Fashion
Veronica Leoni at Calvin Klein: sexitude and the narcissistic kink
The first woman to lead Calvin Klein Collection in sixty years, Veronica Leoni is rebuilding the source code, relocating desire from the camera's gaze to the architecture of the dressed body itself
Fashion
Between me and my Calvins: are we still so horny? 
To say "it's so Calvin" is a way of saying you are looking at someone undressed and being made to want it — and that the wanting is the point
Fashion
Moda Ruvida – Prada doesn’t care, and that’s the whole point
Mrs. Prada and Raf Simons: fashion is just an attitude — a black leather jacket, a yellow square on the back, and nothing left to prove
The Art Field
Closeness is a fiction: Marie Tomanova shoots herself daily for a year
Three Empty Weeks in July – at Harkawik, New York, through July 11, 2026: a durational body of work shot on a Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6 implicates the viewer in a constructed fiction of closeness
Fashion
Moda Ruvida: Paul Smith and his unsuitable situations, with some cultural irony
Tailored and relaxed clothes for inappropriate efforts — the Paul Smith show in Milan is still a compendium of sharp formality and broken youth
The Art Field
Diagrams: there is no such thing as an innocent map
From W.E.B. Du Bois to algorithmic dashboards, diagrams have long shaped the way societies classify knowledge, produce consensus, and visualize power. Cornelia Mattiacci and Giulio Margheri discuss the research developed by AMO/OMA for DIAGRAMS
Fashion
Humble luxury or quiet luxury? The loudest thing you can do is nothing
Quiet luxury performs restraint. Humble luxury performs virtue – whispering "I don't care" loudly: status is now defined by the coherence of one's position – not its visibility – which brands will endure?
Design
Monument London: editing history through objects
Archival design presented with restraint: objects removed from context to reveal authorship, tension, and form. Based in London, Monument was founded by Leah Forsyth-Steel and Victoria Spicer
Fashion
Hermès, 166 New Bond Street — can you still call it a store?
The new Hermès flagship in London: straw marquetry, horsehair, glass bricks, and the ghost of Seventies punk on New Bond Street
Tech
What “bionic” really means in prosthetics, according to Ottobock’s Corrado Polzoni
Corrado Polzoni, head of prosthetics at Ottobock, redefines bionic not as added power but as reduced cognitive load — the point where a prosthesis stops demanding attention and becomes part of the body
Crafting
Maya Stepper: shaping silver between body and autonomy
From modeling to metal, Maya Stepper moves from being seen to shaping her own form, where material, memory and instinct define a practice rooted in reclamation and transformation
Sex
Hunger and sexual desire are regulated by the same system of norms
Diet culture controls not just what you eat and who you are – from Naomi Wolf's Beauty Myth to algorithmic surveillance on Instagram and TikTok, the body is always on trial
Humanities
We are afraid of losing images: photography in the digital age with Xiaopeng Yuan
From failed iPhone backups to printed photobooks, Xiaopeng Yuan explores the instability of digital memory and questions what remains when images become data stored inside endless archives
Music and Performance
A body that refuses style: Ohad Naharin and the Engine of Gaga
Inside Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin pushes Gaga beyond technique – 30% power, radical control, repetition and chaos forging a body that refuses style
Humanities
Pride and the market: when activism becomes a product line
From Stonewall to the seasonal capsule collection, corporate Pride branding has transformed queer politics into a purchasable identity — the fashion industry, from Loewe to Saint Laurent, is still negotiating the terms
Textile Fibers
Mapping the geography of Made in Italy beyond national borders
Diana Studio, the Prato-based knitwear producer, opens its factory floor to question what transparency in fashion means — and why production planning matters more than certifications
Fashion
Why you so obsessed with me? An encyclopedia of fashion obsessions
From Luna Rossa and Triple S to the Baguette and Dior's Saddle Bag, an encyclopedia of contemporary fashion obsessions — examining how repetition, visibility, and circulation build desire
Fashion
Fashion creativity needs constraints to move forward
When fashion can no longer expand through excess, it turns inward: constraints on materials, production, and image become the new territory where creativity proves its intelligence and its force
Reportage
Which is the best hotel in Italy? Beyond personal opinion
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
Naturally Sourced
Wood in a circular economy: reclaimed teak to give discarded wood a second life
From Mumbai to Umbria, Baro Design and Laquercia21 turn reclaimed wood into contemporary furniture—proof that sustainability can be built from scraps, not mass production
Lifestyle
Galib Gassanoff: structure is not a style, it is a position
A conversation on discipline, cultural memory, and why a designer who knows how to cut a dress has less and less space in an industry that moves too fast to notice
Digital Intelligence
Peace as infrastructure: how finance and AI could redesign stability
War is economically convenient for specific actors — only by making peace equally profitable, through AI diplomacy and new financial instruments, can the system change. From Tech Emotion Summit 2026
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Music and Performance
Clara Hastrup: the artist wiring living systems into kinetic sculptures
Clara Hastrup’s fish machine sculptures transform aquariums into instruments, using light beams and DIY electronics to test autonomy, intention and control
Fashion
Back to the Antwerp Six: independence reshaped fashion once, why not today again?
Emerging in the 1980s, a group of six designers introduced a model of independent, designer-led fashion that shifted the industry from trend driven systems to authorial practices
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Forestry
91530 Le Marais: one hemp farm near Paris is using culture to save the soil
Fifty kilometres from Paris, 91530 LE MARAIS is turning hemp fields into exhibition spaces — and asking whether art might be the most powerful tool we have for saving the soil
Sex
Music and Performance
The Nightclub Crisis: we dressed to get laid – now we swipe
Once the outfit was the search query and the door was the filter - now the algorithm sorts desire, and the club uniform survives only as a costume to photograph. How to explain the nightclub crisis?
Crafting
“I don’t want Petit h to have a style” — inside the Hermès workshop where materials lead the design
Founded in 2010 by Pascale Mussard in Pantin, Paris, Petit h transforms unused materials from Hermès’ sixteen métiers. In this interview, Godefroy de Virieu explains why materials come first
Fashion
Fashion underdogs: the time has come for a revolution
A violent aesthetic built on cuts and lacerations that critics would lazily reduce to the label "Hiroshima chic" – but Kawakubo was excavating something far deeper – the realm of the unconscious
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Metamorphosis as fracture: Alexandra Alvarez Garcia for Lampoon MECCANO
From Kafka to the mechanical body, identity dissolves into systems of labor, alienation, and constructed selfhood – where the body becomes a site of tension between control and collapse
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The Art Field
Motors, fish and minor disasters: Yuko Mohri scales technology 
From feather dusters to magnetic fields, Yuko Mohri rewires everyday objects into unstable systems where error generates knowledge and technology returns to human scale
The Art Field
Hannah Levy: why a prehistoric crab makes sense in her sculpture
With Blue Blooded at Museo Nivola, Hannah Levy turns the horseshoe crab — harvested for modern medicine since before memory — into the most coherent subject she has ever chosen
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