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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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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
The Art Field
Closeness is a fiction: Marie Tomanova shoots herself daily for a year
Three Empty Weeks in July – at Harkawik, New York, through July 11, 2026: a durational body of work shot on a Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6 implicates the viewer in a constructed fiction of closeness
The Art Field
Diagrams: there is no such thing as an innocent map
From W.E.B. Du Bois to algorithmic dashboards, diagrams have long shaped the way societies classify knowledge, produce consensus, and visualize power. Cornelia Mattiacci and Giulio Margheri discuss the research developed by AMO/OMA for DIAGRAMS
Fashion
Moda Ruvida: Paul Smith and his unsuitable situations, with some cultural irony
Tailored and relaxed clothes for inappropriate efforts — the Paul Smith show in Milan is still a compendium of sharp formality and broken youth
Design
Monument London: editing history through objects
Archival design presented with restraint: objects removed from context to reveal authorship, tension, and form. Based in London, Monument was founded by Leah Forsyth-Steel and Victoria Spicer
Fashion
Humble luxury or quiet luxury? The loudest thing you can do is nothing
Quiet luxury performs restraint. Humble luxury performs virtue – whispering "I don't care" loudly: status is now defined by the coherence of one's position – not its visibility – which brands will endure?
Tech
What “bionic” really means in prosthetics, according to Ottobock’s Corrado Polzoni
Corrado Polzoni, head of prosthetics at Ottobock, redefines bionic not as added power but as reduced cognitive load — the point where a prosthesis stops demanding attention and becomes part of the body
Crafting
Maya Stepper: shaping silver between body and autonomy
From modeling to metal, Maya Stepper moves from being seen to shaping her own form, where material, memory and instinct define a practice rooted in reclamation and transformation
Sex
Hunger and sexual desire are regulated by the same system of norms
Diet culture controls not just what you eat and who you are – from Naomi Wolf's Beauty Myth to algorithmic surveillance on Instagram and TikTok, the body is always on trial
Fashion
Hermès, 166 New Bond Street — can you still call it a store?
The new Hermès flagship in London: straw marquetry, horsehair, glass bricks, and the ghost of Seventies punk on New Bond Street
Humanities
Pride and the market: when activism becomes a product line
From Stonewall to the seasonal capsule collection, corporate Pride branding has transformed queer politics into a purchasable identity — the fashion industry, from Loewe to Saint Laurent, is still negotiating the terms
Textile Fibers
Mapping the geography of Made in Italy beyond national borders
Diana Studio, the Prato-based knitwear producer, opens its factory floor to question what transparency in fashion means — and why production planning matters more than certifications
Fashion
Why you so obsessed with me? An encyclopedia of fashion obsessions
From Luna Rossa and Triple S to the Baguette and Dior's Saddle Bag, an encyclopedia of contemporary fashion obsessions — examining how repetition, visibility, and circulation build desire
Humanities
We are afraid of losing images: photography in the digital age with Xiaopeng Yuan
From failed iPhone backups to printed photobooks, Xiaopeng Yuan explores the instability of digital memory and questions what remains when images become data stored inside endless archives
Music and Performance
A body that refuses style: Ohad Naharin and the Engine of Gaga
Inside Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin pushes Gaga beyond technique – 30% power, radical control, repetition and chaos forging a body that refuses style
Naturally Sourced
Wood in a circular economy: reclaimed teak to give discarded wood a second life
From Mumbai to Umbria, Baro Design and Laquercia21 turn reclaimed wood into contemporary furniture—proof that sustainability can be built from scraps, not mass production
Lifestyle
Galib Gassanoff: structure is not a style, it is a position
A conversation on discipline, cultural memory, and why a designer who knows how to cut a dress has less and less space in an industry that moves too fast to notice
Fashion
Fashion creativity needs constraints to move forward
When fashion can no longer expand through excess, it turns inward: constraints on materials, production, and image become the new territory where creativity proves its intelligence and its force
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
Forestry
91530 Le Marais: one hemp farm near Paris is using culture to save the soil
Fifty kilometres from Paris, 91530 LE MARAIS is turning hemp fields into exhibition spaces — and asking whether art might be the most powerful tool we have for saving the soil
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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
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
Sex
Music and Performance
The Nightclub Crisis: we dressed to get laid – now we swipe
Once the outfit was the search query and the door was the filter - now the algorithm sorts desire, and the club uniform survives only as a costume to photograph. How to explain the nightclub crisis?
Crafting
“I don’t want Petit h to have a style” — inside the Hermès workshop where materials lead the design
Founded in 2010 by Pascale Mussard in Pantin, Paris, Petit h transforms unused materials from Hermès’ sixteen métiers. In this interview, Godefroy de Virieu explains why materials come first
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
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
Crafting
Another Italian manufacturer credited as global taste maker: the history of Lozza eyewear
From a mill in Cadore to a global style code: Lozza is an eyewear brand that helped invent the Italian attitude —crafted in-house by historical manufacturer De Rigo
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?
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
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
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
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” 
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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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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
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
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