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Lazoschmidl: your grandmother's print, your phone's front camera
1+ hour, 57+ min ago (287+ words) The most transgressive thing in menswear right now is a bathrobe worn out the door and a floral print that belonged to your grandmother " Lazoschmidl SS27 Daynight, Paris Fashion Week. How Lazoschmidl SS27 reclaims the erotic charge of the grandmother's aesthetic in…...
Veronica Leoni at Calvin Klein: sexitude and the narcissistic kink
12+ hour, 54+ min ago (798+ words) Lampoon - the Cultural Magazine about Sustainable Thinking. Culture has always been about human respect, tolerance. It's not only about accepting human diversity but it's about searching for the beauty of every human peculiarity. Reading Lampoon, you find a dialogue between…...
Between me and my Calvins: are we still so horny?
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (302+ words) In 1980, a fifteen-year-old Brooke Shields looked into Richard Avedon's camera and asked what came between her and her Calvins. Nothing, she answered. Networks pulled the spots. The brand sold two hundred thousand pairs of jeans in the first week. The…...
Why you so obsessed with me? An encyclopedia of fashion obsessions
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1006+ words) Fashion obsession now appears fully formed. Seen once, then again, then everywhere. Exposure drives it " a modern proximity sustained through online presence rather than physical closeness. Visibility, recognition, replication: the conditions remain the same. Persistence overpowers innovation. Anything that stays…...
How Amouage builds a fragrance around perfumery's most elusive flower
1+ week, 4+ day ago (883+ words) Love Hibiscus is an eau de parfum within Amouage's Secret Garden collection, composed by J'r'me Epinette. The fragrance pairs a hibiscus accord " tart, herbal, faintly earthy " with a salted caramel gourmand base anchored by passion fruit, frankincense, sandalwood, cypriol, and…...
Humble luxury or quiet luxury? The loudest thing you can do is nothing
2+ week, 2+ day ago (217+ words) As the logomania cycle turns again and fashion houses colonize the domestic interior, the luxury market has bifurcated around a question that sounds philosophical but is in fact financial: does the most powerful status signal today lie in what you…...
nti: perfume begins with sweat and salt " not flowers
3+ week, 1+ day ago (631+ words) Lampoon spoke with Larissa Sugaipova e Brieuc Larsonneur " founders of "nti " about olfactory archaeology, sweat, sex, history, and why luxury is ultimately a way of selling time. "We came from the fashion world. I worked at the concept store Nose…...
Another Italian manufacturer credited as global taste maker: the history of Lozza eyewear
3+ week, 2+ day ago (262+ words) To meet the expectations of such a broad clientele, Lozza leaned into invention. Alongside more eccentric models " Gretel, Miria, and Monica, with wood-grain effects, and Big, featuring laminated fluorescent hues " the brand also produced cleaner, more graphic designs like Geometrics,…...
Galib Gassanoff: structure is not a style, it is a position
3+ week, 6+ day ago (632+ words) This conversation is part of Lampoon's column on Talent, Taste, and Transformation curated by Anouk Jans. AJ: Before fashion entered the picture, there were already values in place. GG: Everything begins with people. Before fashion, there was respect for culture,…...
Back to the Antwerp Six: independence reshaped fashion once, why not today again?
1+ mon, 12+ hour ago (440+ words) In the 1980s, six designers trained in Antwerp introduced one of these structures. They did not define a style. They defined a way of working. Design, production, and distribution aligned under the control of the designer, outside established houses and without…...