Tag: Fashion
How Wrestling Rituals and Creative Vision Shape Modern Senegal
Photographer Kévin Félicianne’s lens on urban Dakar: documenting the city’s transformation through teenagers’ eyes, as Senegalese wrestling grows from rural tradition to stadium spectacle
Fashion collaborations beyond fashion: Bottega for Bottegas
The fourth edition of the Bottega for Bottegas project explores the Venetian roots of the Maison and its woven legacy, featuring six artisanal ventures in dialogue with Lampoon
CAL deconstructs his latex boots for Rick Owens – Amongst the glue, metal rods, and pins
From his live-work studio in London, designer CAL talks FKA twigs, those air-filled boots, and his (now-masked) life with latex
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
The Paul Smith Archive: Sugar Cubes and Hundreds of Rabbits
A visit to Paul Smith's studio and a train trip to Nottingham the next day: for the first time, the complete archive in its catalog is presented to the public
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
The intersection of urban architecture and green spaces in Shinjuku City
Shinjuku's energy radiates through its streets, where modern skyscrapers cast shadows over ancient shrines and serene gardens – photographer Ramona Deckers for Lampoon
Negative Finances and the Luxury Crisis: Is It a Matter of Good Manners?
The luxury crisis can be seen on the negative balance sheets. However, there’s a sociological issue that might seem distant, yet it affects our daily lives and those who conduct...
The Soundtracks of the Runways – How Music Becomes a Tool for Storytelling
The SS25 fashion weeks were not short of intentional soundtrack choices, reflecting deeper themes within the collections and activating an emerging audience of Gen-Z consumers through music marketing
Hedi Slimane left Celine: the Evolution of a Brand Through its Designers
After seven years with Celine, Hedi Slimane left, two days after presenting the collection Un été français. An analysis of a brand that has been a blank canvas for its creative...
The Fashion Month: is there any sustainability? Only 10 looks here to talk about
Ten looks out of over two thousand: a selection that calls for sustainability, after witnessing a month of non-stop fashion shows – we ask for no plastic, no prints, no...
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...
Mina and Balenciaga have much in common
Balenciaga Music | Mina Series. A parallel between two seemingly distinct artistic paths: Mina and Don Cristóbal both lived uncompromising lives in pursuit of abstraction
Ilenia Durazzi: a quest for rawness
A new headquarters and an anti-glossy aesthetic for Durazzi Milano – interview with founder Ilenia Durazzi: «France taught me savoir-faire and what it means to combine tailoring and creativity»
Maccapani: technical jersey defies fashion conventions
The idea was inspired by M Missoni jersey lurex fabric, twenty-five thousand meters four times a year. Maccapani, seen through the eyes of the founder Margherita Maccapani Missoni
Niccolò Pasqualetti: designing human diversity
«The fluidity of stone and the sensuality of water»: Niccolò Pasqualetti on being an independent and emerging brand today: birth and growth of the designer now a LVMH prize finalist
The code of conduct for Berlin Fashion Week SS25
As Berlin Fashion Week continues to evolve, it promises to inspire and challenge the fashion community worldwide, driving forward the ideals of creativity, diversity, and sustainability in the years to...
Fashion at the Dinner Table: Serving Bottega Veneta and Duck(Walk)
Bottega Veneta for the fathers who dare to love and Ballroom for those who dare to love differently: an exploration of fashion's ability to redefine family perceptions and structures
Denim and upcycling stories: from Miu Miu to Vitelli
An upcycled jean emits up to 83 percent less CO2 than a new one - Miu Miu's latest Upcycled collection and other efforts to explore the potential of vintage denim...
The Dragon in the House: Alessandro Michele at Valentino
The Dragon's Tail in Fashion: A Collection of 260 Images: Rough Culture, Bestiaries, and the Non-Aesthetically Correct in Alessandro Michele's Debut at Valentino
The other Capri: keeping it rough at the Jacquemus fashion show
The meeting point between Villa Malaparte and Jacquemus is both the brand's founding and the long history of artists' fascination with the villa, its aesthetic, and its secretiveness
From Villa Malaparte to the Quisisana – Capri, rough with no decency
A conversation takes place in the garden of the Quisisana hotel about Capri, the roughness of the island with no decency: talking with Cesare Cunaccia. Meanwhile, Jacquemus is at Villa...
The Dior Cruise 2025 celebrates long standing Anglo-French fashion ties
By marrying the French maison’s artisanal approach with the tradition of Scottish craftsmanship, there is a certain closure of the anglo-french relationship between Dior and the Brits
Silvio Campara: a flow of thoughts, numbers – can an interview become literature?
Culture, finance and commitment to human resources – the head of Golden Goose, Silvio Campara is full energy: is this entrepreneurial literature?
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...
Anna Wintour and Fashion Stories that Don’t Want to Be Banal
Anna Wintour's credibility falls like the data of some luxury companies: she no longer understands that time is passing by and finds TikTok as a sponsor for the Met –...
Art Paris 2024: avant-garde, inclusion, sustainability and human fragility
Art Paris 26th edition saw the debut of the BNP Paribas Banque Privée Prize, which was awarded to Nathalie Du Pasquier for her multidisciplinary practice as illustrative of an era
Paris fashion’s return to conservatism
Contemporary fashion finds itself navigating a spectrum from avant-garde innovation to traditional conservatism. At Paris Fashion Week, runway presentations showcase a resurgence of conservative aesthetics
Pharrell Williams: the nomad who landed in fashion
An overview of all the experiences that have led the music producer to head Louis Vuitton's creative direction: from rap music to catwalks on the Pont Neuf
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...
Chanel Resort 23/24 at the intersection of global fashion, local culture and cinema
Chanel Cruise SS23/24 from Shenzhen Bay MixC’s cinema to via Montenapoleone in Milan. Celebrating Chanel’s womanity and Barbiecore
MEP, Maison Européenne de la Photographie: a space devoted to photography since 1978
MEP Paris shop: experts, researchers, and scholars can find a space dedicated to photography from 1950 to the present day, with a collection of 36,000 references, 4,000 of which published...
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
Linked – Schiele in conversation with Basquiat. Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris
The aura of the greats, perhaps too fragile to cope with world criticism, or even success. Genius and wildness. Luck or damnation
Hope, recognition, and devotion – Pharrell Williams debut at Louis Vuitton
In Paris, Pharrell Williams unravels the LVers Menswear collection, an imitation of his eclecticism – the artist's debut as creative director for Louis Vuitton
Workaholics vs. artisanship, the Fendi collection is for men who create
Using the Fendi Factory landscape as inspiration, Silvia Venturini reveals its sphere of development. The menswear line comes as a praise to the production chain
Dior’s feminist deployment marks Cruise 2024 show in Mexico
The French brand lands in Latin America to rediscover traditions and urges through the evocation of the figure of Frida Kahlo
Alex Huanfa Cheng: Crystal waters tuning
Chanel meets manga punk girl in Photographer Alex Huanfa Cheng story for Lampoon 27, the RuVido issue, styled by Niki Pauls
Pablo Picasso x Paul Smith: An homage exhibition at Musée national Picasso, Paris
At Musée national Picasso-Paris, British designer Paul Smith led a three floor homage exhibition to the work of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso on the fiftieth anniversary of his death
Paris Fashion Week report: Hermés’ naturalistic immersion in Fall Winter 2023
After sales beyond all expectations and winning the MetaBirkin trial, the brand returns with a proud woman at Paris Fashion Week
Oasi Cashmere – Zegna and The Elder Statesman joins Italian and American heritage
The styles are reinterpreted in off-kilter patterns and casual cuts in collaboration with Bailey Hunter, Creative Director of The Elder Statesman and Zegna Creative director Alessandro Sartori
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
Hillary Taymour, founder of Collina Strada – «It’s just fun. I just try to make it not fucking boring»
From sustainability to climate change, to self-love and self-preservation, acting as a barometer of the world’s current political, social and economical situation. «We don’t shove values down anyone’s throat»
KIDZ, Paris: be childish – nothing is complicated and every problem has a solution
To celebrate the launch of the 2022 book, Anna Gardere and Raphaëlle Bellanger organized an event at 3537, an art center owned by Rei Kawakubo, creator and founder of Comme...
Louis Vuitton presents LV Dream: a 160-year-old multisensorial journey of the Maison
Halfway through LV Dream exhibition, there is ‘The World of Vuitton According to Rei’ conceptual room, a homage to Comme des Garçons artistic director, Rei Kawakubo
Hermès Lipsticks – Gregoris Pyrpylis on the way that pigments change
For Autumn 2022, Gregoris Pyrpylis introduced five new additions to the emblematic range in order to surround the central pivot of Rouge H based on «intuition and the need to...
