Eero Saarinen’s Curves for Ghesquière: the Louis Vuitton 2020 Cruise Show
The difference between modern and contemporary? The terminal at JFK airport in marks the aesthetics that Louis Vuitton has been using to guide all our tastes
Black community – from Whitney
Houston to Lenny Kravitz, listening to Drake
Lenny Kravitz, a worldwide tour: it gives us a chance for a conversation about talent, money and music. The Afro-American elite rules the market and customs
Arses, spitting, domestic items.
It’s our obsession about archives
In a digital society, can be the paper the bulwark of free circulation of images? Bruto fanzine - a full story of obsessions and smart robbery of internet domains
Characters, erosion, stratification.
In architecture and in the human heart
Does time make the human character stronger? In nature and architecture, the Synchrodogs and an adjective that does not exist in poetry: 'sedimental'
Black community – from Whitney
Houston to Lenny Kravitz, listening to Drake
Lenny Kravitz, a worldwide tour: it gives us a chance for a conversation about talent, money and music. The Afro-American elite rules the market and customs
Arses, spitting, domestic items.
It’s our obsession about archives
In a digital society, can be the paper the bulwark of free circulation of images? Bruto fanzine - a full story of obsessions and smart robbery of internet domains
Characters, erosion, stratification.
In architecture and in the human heart
Does time make the human character stronger? In nature and architecture, the Synchrodogs and an adjective that does not exist in poetry: 'sedimental'
Bourgeois vs Bohemian:
the Clash, the genesis of desire
How does desire come about, the type that takes over people for something that is surely not essential: futile, simple, a new status symbol - why all of a sudden does everybody want it?
More consumption, fewer raw
materials. Wealth vs sustainability
I'm willing to invest millions in your project if it's disruptive, but if it's innovative I'm not interested – Ercole Botto Poala on how Italian textile districts will change in 10 years' time
April 2019
THE FASHIONABLE LAMPOON – ISSUE #17
RESILIENCE
Berlin, Voo Store. The philosophy of an entire district
A place that tells the story of a district in Berlin: the Müjdeci brothers' Voo Store has 50 employees from 22 different countries. Danish design, rough walls and bare brickwork
AGENDA
Spots and Notes, a new way of travelling
Attrape-Rêves
Peony and African cocoa flower – on a base of Turkish rose, with hints of ginger. The perfume seeks that euphoria that explodes when in California, at the Post Ranch Inn, your eyes widen before a shower of shooting stars
Vivamayr
Three meals per day to be eaten in silence, sitting at one’s table – alone - on a patio with a view of the lake. No talking allowed, no reading or writing. Maximum concentration as you eat
Grand Hotel Fasano
The Grand Hotel Fasano is one of the best hotels reviewed by this column. The rooms overlooking the lake to the east, the swans taking flight, the sunlight dancing around the sundial