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Silvia Venturini Fendi: simplicity is the most complex design
The Peekaboo becomes a book. Fendi releases a volume tributing the bag designed by Silvia Venturini Fendi in 2008. Three ladies talking about irony, family and the meaning of legacy
Alex Ott: the man whom the New York Times in 2011 called a ‘sorcerer’
The path of Alex Ott in his quest for an integrated planet. «Studies about the properties of the plants would damage the food industry, dominated by few powerful players»
Telling the story of Columbia from past to present: a glass-making project
‘Suelo Orfebre’. An analysis of the local identity through material choice, working with craftsmen and connecting with communities in the mining community of Marmato by Simón Ballen Botero
Inside the hotel that reframed Tbilisi as a design destination
Opened in 2014 in a Soviet-era publishing house in Vera, Rooms Tbilisi combined reclaimed materials, Georgian contemporary art, and a deliberate rejection of hospitality convention to establish a new language...
Serving Looks: The Fashion Legacy of Tennis from Lacoste to Sinner
Tracing tennis’ journey from an aristocratic pastime to a pop culture phenomenon – tenniscore – with fashion-forward players pushing boundaries on the court
Michèle Lamy: I wake up not knowing what story I am in
Foucault once said that the 21st century would be Deleuzian. Now, living in the 21st century, it feels like almost dystopian – nterview with Michèle Lamy on chaos, creativity, Los...
Maçka Palas: a Living Tribute to Italian-Turkish Heritage
Embodying the legacy of two civilizations meeting across the Mediterranean: Giulio Mongeri's Art Deco architecture, Ara Guler's photographs, and a hammam-inspired spa
The book Bonacina Grandi Maestri tells the story of over 120 years of Italian design
Bulrush, rattan, malacca – "It's the material that creates this style. The big names worked with us because we could make shapes that would have been impossible or too expensive...
Bonacina 1889: rattan manufacturing and design icons
Elia Bonacina, fourth generation of Bonacina 1889: pieces for the Agnelli family, Mondadori, Rothschilds, and inspirations for Mongiardino – rewriting the history of design backwards
The Beautiful Decay according to Marcin Rusak
Marcin Rusak combines the dichotomy of the natural and the man-made – «I took something already dead, that was grown for our pleasure, and turned it into a print that...
Kiki Smith: legends, fairy tales, and religious icons
Bronze sculptures and small-scale paintings are set up inside the Galleria Lorcan O'Neill as within a temple or a church
Oslo positions itself as a circular fashion city
Overshadowed by Copenhagen, Oslo is emerging as a city for circular fashion, focused on sustainable textile industry, with convincing initiatives – against the backdrop of Norway’s dependence on oil and...
Saodat Ismailova: tigers, silk, cotton and the Uzbek cosmic embroidery
Working with dreams, oral narratives, silk, and glass, filmmaker and artist Saodat Ismailova’s work at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca explores the entangled histories of Central Asia
Homo Faber: much wonder and a bit confusion
From the Goose Game to the Globes for the Sun King, passing through a child’s playroom, phosphorescent plastics, and paints: Homo Faber 2024 on the Island of San Giorgio in...
Cassi Namoda – «I feel pregnant with work: all these ideas want to have a birth»
«Galleries should have no expectations. Every artist has overworked or underworked something. I will be the only one to know if it's finished». Cassi Namoda on her approach to work...
For art’s sake: Courtney Mattison: marine conservation science and sculpting
By creating sculptures representing the anthropogenic issues affecting the ocean, Mattison creates a visual representation of the message of the scientific community
Waste smuggling: who takes responsibility for dignified jobs in African textile industries?
High-quality garments are redirected from African secondhand clothing markets, leaving the discards and low-empowering labor in local traders’ wake. Human dignity is at stake
CØR and VAUST bring Berlin’s roughness to Paris
The creative heart of Paris is home to a brutalist space designed by the Berlin-based studio VAUST dedicated to exploring collectible design and functional art
Zero-impact music festivals: from short supply chains to renewable energy
From DGTL in Amsterdam to Bucolika at Lake Camosci in the Susa Valley, Italy: boutique festivals emphasize respect for nature and the use of short, controlled supply chains for food...
Argentaia: Corners and ochre shades, in a medieval song
The original nucleus of Argentaia is what remains of the ancient convent: it resembles a colonial house, a farmer’s refuge on the gentlest part of the hill
Escondido Oaxaca presents itself with a brutalist-style in Mexico
When translated into English, the Spanish word, Escondido, means hidden – like its name, the properties in Oaxaca are regarded by its founders as a hidden gem
Louis Vuitton Cruise 2025: Ghesquière’s archaeology of the future at Parc Güell in Barcelona
Gaudí's Art Nouveau according to Ghesquière, the Louis Vuitton Cruise 2025 show takes place in Barcelona – historical architecture and mecha design are the backdrop of a romantic and business...
Cosmic Garden: safeguarding Indian craft manufacturing
The Cosmic Garden exhibition at the Venice Biennale is committed to the emancipation of women through craftsmanship – with the support of Dior. A dialogue with Karishma Swali, from the...
Benjamín Labatut: the fear of technology is a human experience
Benjamín Labatut technology and imaginations by exploring the limits of human thought – «We're all scared, when human beings are scared, they start to chart out the future»
The Miyawaki: greenify urban sites
The concept of urban planning needs to take climate change into account: urban forestry initiatives adopting the Miyawaki method to plant forests are spreading throughout Europe
Ottolinger and womanity: ready to unwear
«We felt something was missing for women in the fashion market». Ottolinger duo, Cosima Gadient and Christa Bösch, forms new vocabularies of the feminine and the thrust towards womanity
Hot tubes: Italian Design masters
Bourgeois-interior in a series of hidden spaces designed by Italian masters for Lampoon: Franco Albini, Gianfranco Frattini, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Cini Boeri, Claudio Salocchi, Nanda Vigo
Stella Rose Gahan: the cookie-cutter mold of pop stardom
Jiro Konami photographed Stella Rose Gahan for Lampoon, the Boiling issue in a special editorial for Celine. On self-expression, humanities, and the feminine-masculine unconscious sides
Deciphering the myth that is the Big Four
Chronicles from NYFW and LFW – why are we still holding on to an old idea to recreate something new? This might be the time to rethink the old tradition...
New Urbanism drives me MAD
From the efforts to re imagine China's urbanism to a fashion collaboration for Fendi Peekaboo. A conversation with Andrea D'Antrassi, Associate Partner of MAD Architects
Sustainable textile industry: Lycra Company get rid of fossil-based spandex
Dismissing Plastic. Eyeballing the need for a sustainable textile industry, The Lycra Company replaces synthetic spandex with a fiber made with a naturally sourced ingredient: corn
Retro-Futurism – Human Fragility and the reminiscence of Eighties aesthetic
The Eighties are often referred to as the decade of decadence – A Retro-Futurism editorial, a reminiscence of Eighties movies aesthetic and the fascination for office environments
When the bag is jewelry, it becomes a safe haven asset: Hermès Kelly Morphose
The best way today to invest and make your savings pay off is to buy luxury handbags. A retrospective on Hermès Kelly Morphose and an editorial by Manon Clavelier and...
Camila Falquez raises social consciousness on BIPOC, Black, indigenous, people of color
BIPOC means Black Indigenous and People of Colour. A conversation with Camila Falquez, Latin America’s fashion photographer of the year, whose work focus is in on systemic racial injustices
Corporeal and digital – multidisciplinary artist Aziza Kadyri’s blend of old and new
Kadyri combines extended reality (AR/VR) and traditional art forms in works exploring the themes of decolonization, displacement, feminism, identity, social invisibility, and migration
Cultivating our garden: exploring Humberto Campana’s design process
Constructing with nature: Humberto Campana's botanic garden project blossoms as a sanctuary for preserving biodiversity and fostering environmental education
Kicking traditions trough sustainability? Kasia Kucharska’s latex ensembles
Ornament is crime: Kasia Kucharska talks with Lampoon about fashion, architectural background and the next step of the sustainable textile industry – with Latex
Changing economies, changing societies, changing design – the Bouroullec brothers
The rhythms and habits of work nowadays are increasingly oppressive. The Bouroullec brothers have a solution to turn it around through design: it's cat ergonomics
Recycled wood – pine needles and the byproduct of our forests
«You have a moral obligation to consider the impact of what you are creating» designer Tamara Orjola – investigating the use of pine needles
Artissima 30th anniversary – Cripta747: listening and proximity
Relations of Care at Artissima 2023 aims to combine the concept of care through the concepts of listening and proximity: words that are part of the vision of Cripta747
Polartec Panel – If biodegradability is not the only answer, longevity is
Circularity in the textile industry: switching to circular materials must not compromise performance and durability
Under Armour signs deal with Hemp Black for supply worth 9M$ supply
Hemp Black/eco6 is a carbon-neutral yarn from industrial hemp. Due to their technical properties natural fibers are gaining more attraction for activewear and sportswear apparels
Roses and hunter: Farshad Farzankia honors the strength of women from Iran
«I experienced pain in my family and my close relationships, people going to jail and not coming back. I was born into this chaos of uncertainty» – Farshad Farzankia on...
1-54 London 2023: an increase in galleries from the African continent and a strong female presence
1-54 London, the 2023 edition: using technology to support women, translate climatic information through art, and engage with the disabled communities of Ghana
Jota Mombaça about political intersectionality and utopia as transition
Queer artist Jota Mombaça discusses her work as a radical reorientation to history and memory, allowing the elements to reveal perspectives inaccessible to people
Burning paradises: El Niño hitting islands. Does mass tourism take part of the blame?
The wildfires that occurred in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands generated a catastrophe fueled by heat waves. From Greece to Maui, overcrowded island threat ecosystem
