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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
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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
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
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.
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
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
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?
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
Sound Industry
Audible brings Dracula to Venice: a full-cast audio series in seven languages
Robin Morgan-Bentley describe what happens in casting, microphone technique and editing when a story has no image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Photography
Yann Turchi: Image as Proximity
Analog process, lived perspective, and narrative control: photography as presence, not performance.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 
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
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
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
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
Textile Fibers
The value of coconut husk fiber: what to do with the 85 percent we burn
Coir board holds together without synthetic glue, using lignin present in the material. What happens when the waste stream becomes the raw material? Where the sustainability claim runs into trouble?
Humanities
Léon Prost: documenting without distance
Flash, and refusal of idealization: photography as exchange rather than performance, Léon Prost - the images resist polish in favor of directness
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
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
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
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
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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
Crafting
Working titanium: anodizing, welding and printing the metal that won’t apologize
Fifty cents of titanium equals thousands in gold: the metal builds its case in jewelry on strength, purity and permanence: resistant to resizing, soldering, and to the market logic of scarcity
Fashion
LVMH, Chanel – why are the big groups buying up Italian artisans?
It may look like a new form of colonization – but there are positive outcomes, and greater protections: a reflection on the Italian manufacturing district, our heritage
Sex
Clitoris: an intersectional perspective on sexual pleasure
Desire is never neutral. From the clitoris erased by theory to a $43 billion wellness market, who gets to feel pleasure safely, and who still doesn't
The Art Field
350 species in one seagrass meadow: how One Ocean Foundation operates
From the Caprera Canyon to Posidonia restoration in Cala di Volpe, One Ocean Foundation builds infrastructure for marine science — the exhibition As Above, So Below in Venice
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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
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
Fashion
The fault is the last human trait: Jonathan Llense photographs circuits that stay unlit
Every screen is engineered to ignite at a touch: Jonathan Llense assembles complete circuits that withhold the spark, and claims failure as the gesture reserved for the human
Literature
Hélène Giannecchini and an Army of Lovers – how you process friendship today?
History asks us to rethink friendship as a political form of care. An interview with Hélène Giannecchini explores friendship as a radical way of living together
Cinema
Pedro Almodóvar has spent forty years refusing to let stories end
From Madrid's Movida to his most confessional films, the director keeps circling the same obsession: mothers, desire and the ending he still won't accept
Music and Performance
Charli XCX killed the erotic album cover
Charli XCX  replaced it with something far more seductive. From Roxy Music's exposed bodies to Scorsese, Jacobs, and Cale in a kitchen: desire in music learned to live inside cultural recognition 
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