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POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair and FASHION POSITIONS: what does the German capital do differently?
«Most of the designers here in Berlin work differently than in the other cities» – POSITIONS Art Fair: Berlin has long been a destination for those who seek to explore...
Cinema is real life: Damien Chazelle and Justin Hurwitz talking back and forth
Oscar winners, director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz going into details about a long-term collaboration and friendship that have given life to La La Land, Babylon and more
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris: 788 design objects
The Pipistrello Lamp was designed by Gae Aulenti for the Olivetti showroom in Paris. Still produced by Martinelli Luce, it can be purchased at 107 Rivoli boutique
Collaboration across borders – Magazzino Italian Art traces the contemporary Italian identity
Magazzino Italian Art – the museum's second building, the Robert Olnick Pavilion, designed by Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo, will open to the public on September 14,...
Photography is dead, Jean-Vincent Simonet considers alternative processes
Considering the photographic aura with Jean-Vincent Simonet. The artist discusses his process involving hacked inkjet printers and experimental modes of composition
The denim industry leaves cotton behind. Levi’s and VirgoCoop the cottonized hemp
Denim production considers further investments on hemp to replace cotton. The cases of Levi’s hemp selvedge 501 jeans and Nimes’s Futura 75 variety in partnership with VirgoCoop
Ganni teams up with Rubi to present a yarn from photosynthesis carbon emissions
Fashion giants Reformation and Patagonia to create prototype products : Can carbon yarn made from bio catalysis be a substitute for viscose? Ganni and Rubi working together
Humans are still at the center of everything – Before the Storm, Pinault Collection
Deconstructing the Western gaze: a post-naturalist aesthetic, the climate crisis - less a transformation than the visible manifestation. Before the Storm, Pinault Collection
Berlin Atonal, an ‘underground operation’ of the 80s turned into a music festival
Berlin Atonal started ‘DIY’ in a reaction to popular music of 1980s: a ‘hallucinatory sight program’, presenting pop, punk, new wave, it «was not meant to be digested in a...
Getting rid of the abstract goals: Mylo and the Global Fashion Summit 2023
The case of stop in production of Mylo, an alternative and ethical material created by Bolt Threads has created a stir: why does fashion still put little effort?
Pol Taburet in the mind’s abyss – stages of trauma and occultism
Silent dramaturgies mix the symbolism of European painting with American rap, contemporary subcultures, and Afro-Creole quimbois. Pol Taburet at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris
Design is a metamorphosis: the manipulation process of Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet
French designers Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet: «we use digital image manipulation tools: digital manufacturing is an area for bridging virtual and physical through objects»
Hard to Find, Hard to Forget: The Architecture of Disappearance at Miramonti
On a rocky outcrop above Merano, in the northern Italy, a hotel and its newest satellite houses practice a peculiar discipline: the art of building something that looks like it...
Fashion designers into interior design: from Kawakubo to Owens – the first was Pierre Cardin
There are plenty of designers who have trained in architecture and industrial design, such as Raf Simons, Tom Ford, Gianfranco Ferré – dubbed the fashion architect, and Virgil Abloh himself
De Angelis Testa family for Ca’ Pesaro: the biggest art donation since 1960
From artworks by Robert Rauschenberg, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto to Marina Abramović. De Angelis Testa donation to Ca’ Pesaro and how public and private can come together
Haitian heritage and discarded toys jewelry — Botter 2024 show in Paris
During Paris Fashion Week, Caribbean couture Botter introduced a new 3D printed slippers, made discarded toys jewelry and crafted knitwear out of up-cycled Scooby Doo yarns
«As a kid, I was into animatronics and wooden things» recalls Bethan Laura Wood
A Mexico residency for British designer Bethan Laura Wood: «It's brutalist architecture, but it also has a big conversation with the pre-Hispanic architectural detailing»
Unpacking Casa das Canoas (1953), Oscar Niemeyer: making concrete sexier
Immersed in the lush of Tijuca forest, Niemeyer’s Casa das Canoas blends with the natural environment of water, rock and vegetation thanks to the large transparent, undulating walls
Felipe Escudero and the architectonic revolution in Quito – a reportage
An Architect from Ecuador is rebuilding Quito based on his Stanley Kubrick aesthetic passion. Felipe Escudero, brings a holistic approach prioritizing the positive impact on the surrounding community
The topoi of human history – present and past in Pietro Ruffo’s work
Geographic maps and writing, geometric overlays and experimentation with different materials: the breakdown of Pietro Ruffo’s operas and career
Quira: an insight into contemporary femininity through the materiality of clothes
Veronica Leoni, finalist at the LVMH Prize 2023, recounts herself and her brand Quira through the names of the people and places that have defined her path
«To catch an idea you need to go primitive»: a conversation with Guglielmo Poletti
Spring Studio introduces Guglielmo Poletti's work. The designer aims to display style as a derivation of structure. Construction becomes a meaningful aesthetic
Paradise, a Milanese concept store of Venetian brand Marsèll, reopens after renovation
Turned into a «white cube», Marsèll Paradise is preparing for an oneiric hearing experience and the launch of the brand’s Spring Summer 2023 collection
Milan Design Week, contemporary design scene: Draga & Aurel – «We are just kids»
When design is not just design, but a zestful contamination of influences, creative energies and heterogeneous backgrounds. Draga & Aurel speak with Lampoon
Art as Social Activism – Thomas Hirschhorn: «I am an artist, a worker, a soldier»
«Art is a tool. As an artist I need to see with my own eyes, think with my own brain, in all circumstances even when global events affect me» –...
Psychedelia: the visual vocabulary – Lampoon the RuVido Issue with Gary Card
«My intention was to make something beautiful and classical and then figure out how do I f**k it up? Make something pretty, but layer it by inserting rawness»
I’d like to lick your sweaty armpits again before I die. BadSeedZine for Lampoon Ruvido
«I need to taste you again as I run my fingers over your handwriting. I need to feel with which form of violence you imprinted yourself on the paper. And...
The grandeur of the architecture and the encounter with Aperçues by Nina Carini
The site-specific exhibition designed by the artist dialogues with the sacredness and silence of the space of the Basilica di San Celso in Milan
Transcending classicism – talking with Charles Ray Lampoon RUVIDO
If you are a believer you believe in God, if you are not you believe in gravitational force – the death of God is a point of departure, like a...
Fashion lives and dies in the pipelines of consumerism
Otto von Busch: «what if fashion is just a byproduct of something else? What if fashion is just the exhaust of social processes? What if fashion is just the exhaust...
Is silk sustainable? Mulberry silk and the chance of a spider web
Spider-silk is estimated to be one of the natural fabrics of the future because of its strength. Tougher by weight than the steel of the same diameter, and as strong...
Endemic design: Fernando Laposse bringing the focus back to outsourced Mexico
Fernando Laposse: «designing is not just a matter of materials». When social justice, unemployment, climate change, mass migration and violence are at stake
March 8th – Feminist Surrealism and the art of repurposing: Meret Oppenheim
The exhibition on the Swiss surrealist artist concludes at New York's MoMA. An exhibition that restores dignity to a central female figure in the artistic scene of the twentieth century
Coperni Fall Winter 2023 robotic takes during Paris Fashion Week
Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant: the partnership with Boston Dynamics and robot dogs are the new twist in the collection's show at Paris Fashion Week
David Morris — how one goldsmith tackled an impossible request
The Hexagon Cuff: the human mind envisioned it, technology made it possible, and a leap of faith was the catalyst. Time is not of the essence, prototyping is key
Paris Fashion Week: Ludovic de Saint Sernin, the label, Balenciaga’s redemption
The tension bubbling up around fashion shows resembles the call for anti-fashion, for something to eradicate a well-preserved, self-absorbed ecosystem as the one of fashion
Liao Wen: wooden sculptures to investigate the human body and its complexity
Liao Wen for Bodies and Souls, a group exhibition for Cassina Projects curated by Manuela Lietti and in collaboration with Capsule Shanghai
Microalgae grown biomass from filtered polluted air. The making of biopolymers
London: Otrivin Air Lab harvests carbon dioxide, purifies air, grow algae biomass and 3D print biodegradable products in a workshop space format
Galerie Fakhoury: Rachel Marsil – identities of the people we’ve never met
«I needed those pictures to have a geographical proof that I am related to the African continent as much as I am related to the European one». Rachel Marsil's origins
Discovered pigment producing bacteria: challenging the textile dyeing process
Plant-based pigments as a sustainable alternative to textile dyes, don’t work as much as we would have hoped for. A conversation with designer Laura Luchtman
Art-blankets: Loads of Lines – the RedDUO: Fabiola Di Virgilio and Andrea Rosso
Following on their first clay collection Third Eye, the designer duo composed by Fabiola Di Virgilio and Andrea Rosso, presents fifty hand-made and hand-painted blankets made of deadstock fabrics
Paradise Found: An Erotic Treasury for Sybarites, a compendium by Betony Vernon
Vernon's artistic journey ranges from art to activism in the erotic realm: the book enables an exploration of the secrets of pleasure through a pictorial voyage
From Iran to Italy: the multidiscipline of Bizhan Bassiri and his Magmatic Thought
Art as a combination of cultures, inspirations and creative expression. Bizhan Bassiri: «To focus, I prefer to be in a place as if it were on the moon»
Ecovado — a British-made avocado made using beans, apples and walnuts
Central Saint-Martins graduate, Arina Shokouhi, invents an alternative the avocados with the goal to steer people towards a more sustainable option: enter the Ecovado
Leveraging blockchain technology to put plastic back into the production cycle
Recovered seaside plastic is an alternative to virgin plastic. Tracking it through blockchain technology can prevent its dispersion by promoting recycling
Ksenia Schnaider, Ukraine: «If I produced anywhere else in the world, I’d betray my country»
Ksenia Schnaider is the designer of her eponymous brand, based in Kyiv: having a local production the brand is heavily affected by the war, both business-wise and personally
