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The Daily Dispatch includes reviews and critical readings of books, exhibitions, photography projects, architecture, independent publications and cultural initiatives.
Each contribution connects individual work to a wider system of production, politics, technology and material culture.

Updated with new content every day, The Daily Dispatch extends Lampoon’s editorial research beyond the rhythm of the print edition.
It is a continuous journal of contemporary culture – grounded in evidence, direct observation and an interest in how things are made.

THE DAILY DISPATCH
Where does heavy leather come from, and what happens before it becomes a shoe?
Textile Fibers
Where does heavy leather come from, and what happens before it becomes a shoe?
From the structure of collagen to chestnut, mimosa and quebracho tannins: the collaboration between Cuoio di Toscana and Paul Andrew becomes the occasion for an inquiry into heavy leather
Cream Dior Bar jacket with a fitted waist, sculpted hips, notched lapels and five fabric-covered buttons, displayed over a black skirt.
Fashion
People, places, and knowledge behind LVMH: Les Journées Particulières
Les Journées Particulières: LVMH opens the workshops behind its objects
Cropped torso wearing a textured cream jacket and low-rise khaki shorts, revealing a dark symbol in the pubic area. Natacha Voranger for Creatives Tool.
Fashion
How much it costs to make an image, and who pays for it
Thirteen years in fashion led Voranger to build Creatives' Tool: it takes rates anonymously and returns median figures by brand, profession and years of experience. A photographer can look up what to charge
Glowing amber sculpture with rounded protrusions and thin streams of liquid dripping from its edges against a black background
Design
Fashion
Rubber as structure and surface: Rich Aybar tests one material
Photographs of his work read as glass or resin. The haptic quality does not transfer. Aybar asks how far a single material goes as structure, surface, and the layer against the body
Loewe SS27
Fashion
Loewe Spring/Summer 2027: McCollough and Hernandez stage the collection as theater
llough and Hernandez's third show, at the Château de Vincennes for the Loewe spring/summer 2027 collection: balloon skirts like stacked paper, plasticised collars, leather with the seams erased
Lampoon SALIVA, Issue 34, Covers
Lampoon Issue 34
Lampoon SALIVA — the introduction, the editor’s letter
Lampoon SALIVA — the new issue of Lampoon, autumn 2026: a colorless liquid, slightly stringy — a kiss holds 80 million bacteria, Horny For Culture
Pink lace underwear wrapped around the forked trunk of a tree in a forest, surrounded by moss, fallen leaves, and branches.
Sex
What questions would you ask if your pen pal were an 18-year-old female chatbot? Brea Souders
Another online Pervert – Brea Souders turned 2 years of chatbot conversations into images: the chatbot is a "she," programmed by men who taught her how to speak and what to say
We are all pornstars now: what my AI deepfakes taught me about the future of desire
Sex
Digital Intelligence
We are all pornstars now: what my AI deepfakes taught me about the future of desire
A digital anthropologist let an AI clone her, then watched her avatar seduce strangers — on avatar envy, looksmaxxing, and the animal fashion keeps putting back on the runway
Archival costume illustration from the Tiffany & Co. Jean Schlumberger exhibition, depicting a theatrical figure in a pale blue and white ruffled outfit with orange accents
High Jewelry
Jean Schlumberger at Tiffany & Co.: I Am Only a Pencil, in Paris
The Exhibition I Am Only a Pencil in Paris: Jean Schlumberger’s creative process at Tiffany & Co., from sketch to workshop
Saint Laurent SS27: gold leaf on latex, forty-nine gilded looks
Fashion
Saint Laurent SS27: gold leaf on latex, forty-nine gilded looks
Anthony Vaccarello has spent September inside a succession rumour. His answer at the Trocadéro: fifty-nine looks, forty-nine of them gilded, gold leaf laid on latex, and a black velvet finale
Agar agar, Gelatine, Glycerine. Valeria Pulici, Photography Kira Issar
Fashion
Cotton, nylon and polyester together – Why can’t we recycle fashion ?
The new ecodesign regulation bans the disposal of unsold stock, but cotton, nylon and polyester sewn together make separation expensive. Where does a garment nobody recycles end up?
Samnang_Rubber Man_Cambodia
Natural Materials
From tapper to mill, the plot disappears: how natural rubber gets its paper trail back
Eighty-five percent of the world's natural rubber is tapped by smallholders, one tree at a time, and new EU rules now require every buyer to prove which plot the cut came from
olorful abstract paintings leaning against a studio wall.
Design
Renée Levi covers the Hayward Gallery façade with seven fluorescent colors
Audemars Piguet Contemporary commissions the Swiss artist to create a large-scale painting on perforated industrial mesh for London's brutalist landmark on the Southbank
Lampoon SALIVA Issue 34 — Horny for Culture, Fall Winter 2026, animated editorial banner exploring saliva, intimacy, science, sex and fashion.
Pillings, friction, wool: when the flaw becomes the design 
Fashion
Pillings, friction, wool: when the flaw becomes the design 
Anatomy of pilling - from fibres, friction and washing to Ryota Murakami, who has made it the language of a brand
Naruki Kukita, Moi
The Art Field
Saliva: few drops on a classical portrait — Naruki Kukita and the Bukkake series
From a Bushwick studio the painter works in oil and pre-Impressionist layers, adds the anime figure last, and teaches in a dojo where students learn the form before breaking it
Stone, the Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2027 womenswear collection
Design
Fashion
Rick Owens Spring Summer 2027: the womenswear collection turns stone into light
Stone, the Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2027 womenswear collection, reads the stone as stoicism. The millefoglie jackets take 45 hours each
Cream knit cardigan paired with a voluminous ivory skirt constructed from thick looped yarn.
Fashion
Balenciaga Summer 2027: Pierpaolo Piccioli rebuilds the basque through the seam
For Balenciaga Summer 2027, Pierpaolo Piccioli takes basque shapes from the house archive and transfers them onto T-shirts and leather jackets, using exposed seams to build volume from everyday garments
Netsuke
Crafting
The Art Field
About Netsuke – carved in ivory or wood, hidden in kimonos
Netsuke are carved counterweights, worn at the waist to balance a pouch tied to a kimono sash. Merchants wore them against silk for decades, and the friction finished the carving
Nelio Biedermann’s novel Lázár, published by Rowohlt Berlin, with a white horse on a red illustrated book cover.
Literature
Nelio Biedermann: the youngest writer with the oldest story to tell
What began as a teenager’s attempt to write about his family became Lázár: a century-spanning novel of castles, war, desire, instability and disappearing worlds. An interview with Nelio Biedermann
What do young creators do for a living? Different jobs, sex working too
Sex
What do young creators do for a living? Different jobs, sex working too
Showing off online for money can help pay the rent and be a political act. They don't have clients, but a lot of fans
Branislav Šimončík - Alisa Volkova, Vogue Portugal, 2023, Embodiment haute couture collection, A_W 2023–24
Fashion
Radical tailoring: What does it mean today?
Radical tailoring: when tailoring moves beyond human anatomy, using construction to enlarge, displace, and reconstruct the dressed body
Open Studio Homme Plissé Issey Miyake: Henri Matisse, The Snail and the pleats 
Music and Performance
Fashion
Open Studio Homme Plissé Issey Miyake: Henri Matisse, The Snail and the pleats 
Matisse cut and pinned paper coated in gouache; Homme Plissé Issey Miyake sets pleats in with heat and pressure. At Tate Modern, Open Studio puts the two methods side by side.
Xevi Solà, Dimanche 1, 2025, oil on canvas, 130 x 162 cm
The Art Field
Why are you always somewhere else? Xevi Solà, some paintings
From fashion photography to Lucian Freud, by way of Jonh Cheever, Catalan painter Xevi Solà explains how he builds characters who are always somewhere else
Yuri Kasao Jellyfish Leather
Textile Fibers
Naturally Sourced
Ninety-five percent water, five percent collagen: the jellyfish washing ashore as a textile
Salted, cross-linked, dyed with medieval egg yolk: researchers in the Netherlands, Japan and Israel are turning jellyfish collagen into fabric that behaves like skin because – structurally –  it still is
Mushroom Clouds, Zheng Mahler 08
The Art Field
Mushrooms framed by steel, concrete, and digital code: Zheng Mahler’s Clouds
Built from fungi, fog, datasets, and machine learning, Zheng Mahler's Mushroom Clouds asks what happens when an exhibition becomes a living system
Barnabé Fillion for Arpa Studios, 2020. 
Sound Industry
Design
How the stereo speaker became one of design’s quietest icons
From hi-fi engineering to fashion boutiques, the stereo speaker has evolved beyond consumer electronics into a design object shaping interiors, listening culture and contemporary aesthetics
Cover_Audible
Sound Industry
Dracula without images: how Audible builds cinematic horror
An interview with Robin Morgan-Bentley, director of scripted drama and original fiction at Audible UK, on how Dracula is built as cinematic audio, from editorial development to studio recording and Dolby Atmos.
Circular illuminated installation of contemporary glass vessels reflected in a dark water surface inside the Homo Faber exhibition space in Venice
Reportage
Crafting
Homo Faber: respect and attention: the message it spreads offers civic value
In Venice, on the island of San Giorgio, Homo Faber 2026: imagination is that confusion that resembles the sky, but a cornucopia can offer flowers and some salad
One Hundred Chairs by Martino Gamper
Design
What remains of a chair: Martino Gamper and the design of waste
From Martino Gamper to Markus Friedrich Staab, chairs built from recovered materials reveal the labor, the limits and the contradictions hidden behind the unique piece
Lampoon
Naturally Sourced
Sea resources: Bysco’s naturally sourced textile fiber from mussel waste 
Bysco developed a textile fiber that comes from mussel secretions. Its technical properties can allow the replacement of synthetic fibers like fiberglass and polyester
nside-the-Art-Fair-at-CHART-2026.-Photo-by-Joakim.webp
The Art Field
How CHART 2026 is redefining the art fair model: in conversation with Julie Quottrup Silbermann
Lowering the threshold without lowering artistic ambition: CHART Art Fair’s approach to new collectors, public engagement and contemporary art
Troye Sivan, Something to Give Each Other, Gordon von Steiner
Fashion
The Director Who Came From Fashion: Pop Music’s New Image Economy
Today, pop artists hire directors from fashion's inner circle. The resulting videos carry fashion's grammar — and what that trade costs the music remains an open question
Black and white photograph of a woman leaning back in a wooden chair outdoors, shielding her eyes from bright sunlight with her arms raised.
Photography
The Art Field
The Bauhaus produced its own image with the same method it used for chairs
Photography arrives late at the Bauhaus and becomes the language through which the school builds and circulates its own image — the book New Woman, New Vision 
Raw cotton fibers spread across an open cloth sack on a stone floor, illuminated by sunlight against a dark, weathered wall.
Textile Fibers
Naturally Sourced
Crafting
Indian cotton varieties: some seeds forgotten for 40 years 
Aditi Mayer's The Artisan Archive traces the revival of India's indigenous cotton, from 40-year-old seeds to artisan livelihoods, organic farming, and a more resilient fashion supply chain
Michel Blazy Le lâcher d_escargots, 2009
Naturally Sourced
How do you milk a snail?
The great snail rush: ethical farming innovations and the cultural evolution that turned an unlikely ingredient into a cornerstone of the beauty industry
Hewan Aman, Bonda Ndzie 2025
Photography
Yann Turchi: Image as Proximity
Analog process, lived perspective, and narrative control: photography as presence, not performance.
Ira Giorgetti
Naturally Sourced
Milk can become textile: what a dairy does with a milk it cannot sell
Don’t cry over spilled milk. The story behind the idea of transforming food waste into fabric
Marcel Top
Photography
The US(er): Marcel Top archives Trump-era government propaganda
We Will Not Be Stopped collects and verifies DHS and ICE posts, tracing how state violence is edited
Ink Danny Boyle
Cinema
Danny Boyle’s Ink: The film, the material and the industry behind it
Danny Boyle’s Ink opens Venice Film Festival 2026 with Rupert Murdoch’s story, but the real subject is the material behind the press industry
Lampoon, Horny for Culture — there is no contemporary culture but sustainability
The Publishing Industry
Lampoon, Horny for Culture — there is no contemporary culture but sustainability
Lampoon, Horny for Culture: sustainability as the sole form of contemporary culture — something that stimulates the erogenous receptors
Moneam Football Jersey
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
Dev Dhunsi’s Mixed asks who gets to define a readable identity
Literature
Dev Dhunsi’s Mixed asks who gets to define a readable identity
Published by MACK, the photobook uses water, textile and archival images to examine mixed heritage, diaspora and the systems that demand readable identities
Burning Man The Crescent
Fashion
Why is that man still burning? some lines about Burning Man
Demna, Veronica Leoni, and Louise Trotter and the rave aesthetic: it has nothing to do with the networking o that scrolls across screens every day. It is an aesthetic escape from Starbucks and Disney
Playboy, Rick Owens
Sex
How porn, once a political project, became the most catalogued sector on the web
The passport to pleasure: how porn went back to asking for your documents: from the magazine under the mattress to the hundred billion of the digital market
The right to disappear: nun core and the end of the hot girl summer
Humanities
The right to disappear: nun core and the end of the hot girl summer
From Nun Girl Summer to the medieval Beguines, Melissa Febos's The Dry Season traces what remains when desire stops pointing toward someone else — and who, finally, it belongs to
SUB-D, Capital Aesthetics, Anna Uddenberg, 2022
Digital Intelligence
The Algorithm and the Hating: how outrage became fashion’s invisible engine
From Crocs to Balenciaga, ridicule has accelerated trends rather than ended them. Three voices from inside the industry explain why — and what it costs
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