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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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Reportage
Midnight sun: inside the arctic bubble where light dissolves time
Aliocha Boi leads us into an Arctic where night never returns and glaciers vanish quietly. How do we navigate a world that dissolves our senses and confronts us with its own disappearance?
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
Cruise collections: political ideology and the American visibility machine
As Cruise collections migrate toward American cities, the original logic of seasonal escape gives way to something harder to name
Fashion
Celine after Hedi Slimane: can it be even sexier? 
It looks like Michael Rider at Celine works well: in a fragmenting fashion industry, he does not need any claims: not being one thing, being allowed to be anything—it’s an erotic idea
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
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
Sex
Feminist pornography subverts the dominant gaze – beyond the male gaze
Feminist pornography questions who holds the camera, who writes the scene, and what imagery is produced – for whom. From Club 90 to Erika Lust's productions, via the post-porn by Valentine aka Fluida Wolf
The Art Field
From aero politics to salt architecture: Tomás Saraceno 
In Salinas Grandes, El Santuario del Agua by Tomás Saraceno  reimagines land art as a community-owned project rooted in water, salt, and Indigenous knowledge
Humanities
Fashion is just about a sense of Community: why Stone Island proves it better than the others
Community is a testing ground: how Stone Island’s garments have been managing to evolve through real-world use across subcultures and shared environments 
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Xiao Yang Bure and the post-human body: a ‘metal’ Manifesto
Model, content creator, and emerging figure in the Chinese aesthetic scene, Xiao Yang Bure turns her prosthesis into a radical fashion system
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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
The Art Field
Roe Ethridge and the failure of good taste: images that refuse to behave
“The exhaustion of my eyes by Instagram.” Presenting Rude in the Good Way, Roe Ethridge traces two decades of work, from suburban images to hybrid compositions: fashion and visual culture
Humanities
Lampoon Aphantasia: an unfinished piece for mechanical piano 
Photographer Walter Pierre and model Raya Martigny explore body as mechanism for Lampoon Meccano, in a visual editorial suspended between aphantasia, friction, and incomplete motion
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Smartphone interaction and the erosion of boredom: we look for the pause
We were promised tools to free our time. Instead, today  we surrender the only hours that are truly ours — the empty ones. Leonie Volk for Lampoon MECCANO
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The system we live in was never built for the four cycles women go through
Arale Reartes for Lampoon MECCANO – four hormonal phases as mechanical states, between self-portrait and still life, against a model of linear productivity
The Art Field
What you want from your body? Antony Gormley, iron and crawling
An interview with Antony Gormley. In What Holds Us, he stages a physical encounter with sculpture:“to become whole we have to be held. A tree has to be held in the ground in order for it to grow” 
Design
Erwan Bouroullec on Maap for Flos: I prefer instinct over dogma
A rural childhood, the roughness of making, and the logic hidden in disorder: Erwan Bouroullec on the genesis of Maap for Flos — why chaos is the most honest design tool
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Design
Pietro Porcinai, 1,300 landscape projects: a reportage from Oasi Zegna
In Oasi Zegna, between the 1950s and 1970s, architect and agronomist Pietro Porcinai developed a territorial system for the Zegna family, integrating gardens, industry, forests, and monuments
Crafting
Diego Villareal: metal does not forgive, it records a decision
Diego Villarreal, founder of Vagujhelyi, speaks about his design practice: he produces metal objects that function as both usable items and sculptural forms
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Reportage
Uzbekistan: some Soviet Modernism is leading creativity worldwide
From Timurid empires to Cold War metros, from mud-brick labyrinths to solar furnaces: how Uzbekistan is turning heritage, brutalism and contemporary art into a new geopolitical and aesthetic statement
Call To Action
At Prada Frames, Alfredo Jaar spoke about images without showing a single one
Alfredo Jaar returned to the argument at the center of his work: images do not represent reality, they construct it. From Real Pictures to Searching for Africa in Life, why visual culture is always a political act
Design
Order as instinct: Milan Design Week 2026 and the focus to raw materials
Captured on analog film, a material reading of Milan Design Week 2026: wood, glass and metal as structural languages, carrying form, memory and spatial intent
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Cinema
Amalia Ulman: humor as revenge, cinema as class warfare
From Web 1.0 irony to noir-inflected filmmaking, Amalia Ulman rejects poverty porn, questions AI hysteria, and defends humor as a survival tool 
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The Art Field
Chiara Yiontis draws circles, no sketch no plan
Each work is built through repetition: circles drawn one by one without sketch, where proximity creates structure and a single encounter can redirect a life.  Chiara Yiontis for Lampoon MECCANO
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Fashion
Loro Piana Extra Bag by Adrien Dubost: scale without redesign
Shot for Lampoon Meccano, Adrien Dubost places the Extra Bag in an industrial set, isolating its form among steel structures and reflective surfaces to test proportion, material, and construction
The Art Field
Martin Margiela at the Kudan House: between the historic cedar and the void
Martin Margiela marks his first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan by treating a 1927 heritage residence as a site of memory and disappearance – a graft of Spanish Colonial Revival and traditional Japanese timber
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High Jewelry
Nick Knight working on the latest Tiffany & Co. collections for Lampoon Meccano
SHOWstudio, London - Nick Knight interprets Tiffany collections portraying Hunter Piferc and conceptually connecting body, structure, and surface – this Lampoon’s MECCANO issue
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Sex
Amateur bodies escape the economy of perfection
Spyros Rennt's images for Lampoon Meccano trace an analog, unguarded intimacy of bodies — and open a reflection on amateur desire and what happens when the spectacle breaks
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Design
The Back Studio, industrial scrap for the hottest lamps around
Neon bends, aluminum scratches, glass suspends: The Back Studio’s work lives in the tension between mechanical precision and raw imperfection. An interview with Eugenio Rossi and Yaazd Contractor
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Lampoon MECCANO: Thinking as a form of disobedience – the Editor’s letter
Lampoon’s latest issue – MECCANO is the title and the manifesto. From children’s toys to analytical diagrams, human thought becomes a form of disobedience: we will not surrender to social media
The Art Field
Jamie Diamond stages fictional families to challenge photographic truth
From Craigslist casting to Japan’s rental relationship services, Jamie Diamond hires strangers to stage families and paid interactions, documenting constructed intimacy
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The Art Field
Goshka Macuga: when systems work too well power takes over
“Growing up with nothing trained me to build everything” – Goshka Macuga on memory, archives, AI, and why systems become dangerous when efficiency starts to override human truth 
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Design
The loudspeaker as machine: Erwann Petersen and the mechanics of sound
From early electromagnetic experiments to Transparent’s exposed systems, the loudspeaker shifts from hidden function to visible structure, staged as object and evidence
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High Jewelry
Nick Knight shoots Tiffany for Lampoon MECCANO: why jewelry works like engineering
A dock chain cast in 18k gold, a knot that holds what words can't, a cuff shaped on bone. Nick Knight shoots three of Tiffany collections built like a machine — every part locked in
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Crafting
Can hemp become a fragrance, or is it still just raw material?
Canapa N318 by LabSolue uses Cannabis sativa L. as an olfactory raw material, isolating terpenes through low-yield distillation and integrating them into a controlled formulation system
Fashion
More Logo or No Logo: why Louis Vuitton wants it even more
While the system pushes the no-logo narrative through quiet luxury, Louis Vuitton continues to hold its position by keeping power on the logo mania — the Speedy P9 shall prove it
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Naturally Sourced
Would you like it rough or smooth? Rough knitwear and the over-polished aesthetic
Coarse wool is back: B.B. Wallace is the outcome of a decade-long friendship between Meryll Rogge, creative director at Marni, and knitwear specialist Sarah Allsopp
Forestry
Tempelhofer Feld: why Berlin legally protects its largest open urban space?
The former airport park is protected by a 2014 referendum and the ThF law, yet new building pressures reopen the debate amid housing shortages, climate concerns, and urban forestry
Fashion
From streetwear to snobwear, the return of Fordian sex, according to Demna
From Los Angeles streetwear roots to a new snobwear elite: Demna reignites Ford-era sensuality while Paris collections respond with their own visions of post-Slimane luxury
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Fashion
The Beautiful Fall: Meccano of rivalry, calibrated to fail
A story by photographer Eva Baales for Lampoon MECCANO becomes an occasion to reflect on downfall – From Onassis to Lagerfeld, from Callas to Jackie, love turns into leverage
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Digital Intelligence
Surreal but not fiction: Mat Maitland on what animals and machines actually share
Mat Maitland's cybernetic collages for Lampoon Meccano explore the blurred boundary between animal bodies and mechanical systems — and why science suggests the two were never truly separate
Crafting
Why Hemp matters in contemporary art: Nancy Jiseon Kwon and Sambe
Nancy JiseonKwon has incorporated ramie, called mosi (모시), and hemp, called sambe (삼베), into her fabric scrolls and ceramic sculptures, often using threads to create her own textiles
Sex
The rough erotics of male body hair
Body hair exists, but fashion rarely lets it show. Despite the bohemian male aesthetic that creative directors have spent years constructing, the imagery they actually put on stage is overwhelmingly smooth
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