Carlo Mazzoni

Carlo Mazzoni (Milan, 1979). Writer and professional Italian journalist (Mondadori, Rizzoli, Condé Nast). Between 2007 and 2011 Mazzoni released three novels: I Postromantici (Salani) Il Disordine (Salani) Due Amici, (Fandango). In April 2009, he was listed by the Corriere della Sera among the prominent cultural profiles in Milano, in recognition of his cross-field engagement. At the time, he was the only member under the age of 30 in such a list, and he was called upon to introduce Expo 2015. In 2012, working with Editions Jalou, he launched L’Officiel Italia, holding the editorship until 2014. An editor and entrepreneur, he founded the international magazine Lampoon in 2014, reporting on the international creative scene, supporting Italian manufacturing, ecological transition and forestation, and committing himself to contemporary culture and to the narration of all human diversity.

The Boiling Lampoon: the new Spring issue: saliva and bubbles

Fashion design: creativity must be constrained

Oscars, shame and pride – Poor Things: amplexus and autopsy

Prada obsession: how long will it last?

Cartier in Sydney, one message only: culture

Couture – no Opulence any more, but responsibility

What is a purpose-driven economy? Definition, meaning of each contemporary work

Peekaboo is a Book! – Silvia Venturini Fendi: simplicity is the most complex design

Human Power comes from Human Fragility: James Norton, the acting, the diabetes

Future archeology – Louis Vuitton Resort 24, the show took place at the Isola Bella

Lampoon, the working issue out November 7th – we are not looking for shortcuts

It’s been two years: Gianandrea is the lion that continues to circle around us

Cinema is real life: Damien Chazelle and Justin Hurwitz talking back and forth

Lampoon introduces Prototipo Studio: total commitment to textile hemp in Italy

Sahir Erozan on Maçakızı, Bodrum: «I did this place on my mother’s DNA»

Argentaia: Corners and ochre shades, in a medieval song

Nothing is gendered anymore, for the sake of good design: Cartier Libre

Lampoon RUVIDO, the new issue is ‘rough’

Lampoon, Snake neckalce (1968) Cartier Paris, special order, provenance Maria Felix - from Cartier Design, A Living Legacy

Maria Felix, Cartier, the crocodiles: shall we still understand an aesthetic delirium?

Prototipo Studio – provoking Italian manufacturing as much as you can

the indoor pool, at Lefay, Lake Garda, Italy

Lefay, Lake Garda: a matter of hues between colors, lemons, and clouds

Albereta, Franciacorta: the lands of Franciacorta as the lands of Champagne

What is the difference between art and craft? Silvia Venturini Fendi, presenting Hand in Hand

Lampoon 26, the MUSCLES issue – the new issue coming out in late October

Fashion in Milan, between decadence and reset: the future is craftcore

Oku, Kos Island in Greece: a beachside room with sunset views overlooking the water

Lampoon 25 – The Transparency issue: rebellion against cancel culture, against digital massification

Lampoon 24 / The Honesty Issue – Diverso: to be different means to be honest

Lampoon / the Transition issue: Giorgio Armani says the consumer must consume less

The aesthetic of playground: Carsten Höller invites our inner child

The human fall – A creative talent should always be ready to die

Lampoon Magazine, the Commitment Issue – Editor’s Letter

Poetry of a Prototype – It’s a matter of love. Lampoon’s Editor’s Letter

Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Venice. DYSFUNCTIONAL and the paradoxes of functional art

Lampoon 23 / Transition: to define where we are today

Carlo Mazzoni

Lampoon Issue 29

The Boiling Lampoon: the new Spring issue: saliva and bubbles

The new Spring issue is out worldwide: the Boiling Lampoon – a consideration to everything that boils. From the saliva we blow bubbles with, to the sex that warms our delusion

Carlo Mazzoni

Collections

Fashion design: creativity must be constrained

If creativity cannot expand on the surface, it descends into the depths. Limits and constraints are needed, to improve the proceed with a responsible design: analysis, examples, chronicles, and references

Carlo Mazzoni

cinema

Oscars, shame and pride – Poor Things: amplexus and autopsy

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things awarded at Venice Biennale last summer and today at the Oscars in Los Angles: the movie chronicles the macabre becoming splendid, amid diseases and autopsies

Carlo Mazzoni

prada

Prada obsession: how long will it last?

The fashion industry remains obsessed with Prada: the identity of the bourgeoisie, the intellectual irony of a lady who walks with brisk steps, the pride of a woman who identifies Milan and the Milanese

Carlo Mazzoni

High Jewelry

Cartier in Sydney, one message only: culture

In Sydney, visiting the Hermitage mansion and the Opera House: Cartier opens to new customers for high jewelry in Australia – the luxury market today responds to only one marketing asset: culture

Carlo Mazzoni

couture

Couture – no Opulence any more, but responsibility

Anything that appears opulent today turns out to be out of time, out of the human context we are living in – opulent fashion is not current, it is waste and consumerism

Carlo Mazzoni

hemp

What is a purpose-driven economy? Definition, meaning of each contemporary work

Running a business means giving profit to the owner and workers, as well as the community and the area where the business grows: purpose economy is a successful strategy for 2024

Carlo Mazzoni

Fendi

Peekaboo is a Book! – 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

Carlo Mazzoni

Lampoon issue 28

Human Power comes from Human Fragility: James Norton, the acting, the diabetes

After playing on stage the role of Jude from A Little Life, actor James Norton talks with Lampoon Editor Carlo Mazzoni about the fragility they have in common: diabetes

Carlo Mazzoni

Lampoon issue 28

Future archeology – Louis Vuitton Resort 24, the show took place at the Isola Bella

Speaking of womanity. An aquatic to botanical collection, leaving the land to reconnect with the plant kingdom. The images by Alice Rosati and a fashion review by Lampoon Editor in Chief

Carlo Mazzoni

Lampoon issue 28

Lampoon, the working issue out November 7th – we are not looking for shortcuts

From Parris Goebel’s choreography to James Norton on stage, to young Italian men making ends meet on OnlyFans: work is always the first expression of human dignity

Carlo Mazzoni

Humanities

It’s been two years: Gianandrea is the lion that continues to circle around us

Gianandrea Ferrajoli passed away two years ago, on September 10, 2021 – the one thing I never want to do is write about him in the past tense

Carlo Mazzoni

cinema

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

Carlo Mazzoni

hemp

Lampoon introduces Prototipo Studio: total commitment to textile hemp in Italy

The only vegetable textile fiber that can be sourced in Italy is hemp – scutching and retting are the two critical agricultural steps for a supply chain that can give material to textiles, paper, construction, energy – etc.

Carlo Mazzoni

Bodrum

Sahir Erozan on Maçakızı, Bodrum: «I did this place on my mother’s DNA»

In 1977 Ayla Emiroğlu opened a bed and breakfast in Bodrum. In the same year her son, Sahir Erozan, left Turkey for seventeen year. Macakizi, a combination of two experiences

Carlo Mazzoni

Tuscany

Argentaia: Corners and ochre shades, in a medieval song

The original nucleus of Argentaia is what remains of the ancient convent: it resembles a colonial house, a farmer’s refuge on the gentlest part of the hill

Carlo Mazzoni

Cartier, Lampoon issue 27

Nothing is gendered anymore, for the sake of good design: Cartier Libre

Marie-Laure Cérède, Creative Director of Jewelry & Watchmaking and Pierre Rainero, Director of Heritage, Image and converse with Carlo Mazzoni, Editor in Chief, for Lampoon Issue 27

Carlo Mazzoni

Humanities, Lampoon issue 27

Lampoon RUVIDO, the new issue is ‘rough’

Skin, patina, eyelids — anything that is rough on our hands and eyes; Ruvido, meaning ‘rough’ in Italian, is the title of the new issue of Lampoon, and composes its identity

Carlo Mazzoni

Cartier, High Jewelry

Maria Felix, Cartier, the crocodiles: shall we still understand an aesthetic delirium?

The complexity of a narration between Paris and Mexico,reviewing the twentieth century: notes on aesthetics during a visit to the Cartier exhibition in Mexico City

Carlo Mazzoni

hemp, naturally sourced, textile fibers

Prototipo Studio – provoking Italian manufacturing as much as you can

Italian, natural, plant-based supply chain – from farm field to weaving: the transparency of Made in Italy that wants to be not just a label, but a value

Carlo Mazzoni

hotel, Lake Garda

Lefay, Lake Garda: a matter of hues between colors, lemons, and clouds

The Lefay in Gargnano sits on a steep slope above Lake Garda: at night, one can recognise the building by counting the lights that guide its outline

Carlo Mazzoni

Franciacorta, Italy

Albereta, Franciacorta: the lands of Franciacorta as the lands of Champagne

The link between a hotel and its territory: the Albereta has given Franciacorta more than Franciacorta has given Albereta, in terms of image and message

Carlo Mazzoni

craftsmanship, Fendi, textile fibers

What is the difference between art and craft? Silvia Venturini Fendi, presenting Hand in Hand

Silvia Venturini Fendi recounts the new shape of the FENDI hand in hand project. Texts and images to enhance the mastery of thirty artisans chosen to reinterpret the Baguette bag she designed in 1997

Carlo Mazzoni

Lampoon 26, the MUSCLES issue – the new issue coming out in late October

At this time when we are witnessing an abuse of physical and verbal force, Lampoon dedicated the new issue to the theme of muscle strength: to remind us that human strength is first and foremost kind

Carlo Mazzoni

Collections, events

Fashion in Milan, between decadence and reset: the future is craftcore

Review and consideration of the presentations and fashion shows that have taken place in Milan: which direction should fashion go in order to remain a positive expression of the Italian industry?

Carlo Mazzoni

Oku, Kos Island in Greece: a beachside room with sunset views overlooking the water

It is not easy to find a place like this in the Mediterranean, even less so in Greece: Oku is a hotel, property, and resort that has direct access to a private beach

Carlo Mazzoni

call to action

Lampoon 25 – The Transparency issue: rebellion against cancel culture, against digital massification

Cancel Culture is the market force’s latest attempt to annihilate the masses: a battle that has been going on since the Middle Ages

Carlo Mazzoni

call to action, Lampoon Issue 24

Lampoon 24 / The Honesty Issue – Diverso: to be different means to be honest

Respect for those who work to protect us, respect for those who give us work despite not having enough themselves, respect for those who work for us and believe in our work

Carlo Mazzoni

call to action, Lampoon issue 23

Lampoon / the Transition issue: Giorgio Armani says the consumer must consume less

In a long interview with the editor in chief, Mr. Giorgio Armani talks about ethics in fashion: when clothes can define civic roles and human variety

Carlo Mazzoni

Lampoon Issue 6

The aesthetic of playground: Carsten Höller invites our inner child

It’s never about irony – even if, according to Carsten Höller, it is impossible to go down a slide without smiling

Carlo Mazzoni

Humanities, Lampoon Issue 16

The human fall – A creative talent should always be ready to die

Gods are never afraid to die, because they know that their life is less relevant than what they have done and said, of what they have been

Carlo Mazzoni

Lampoon Issue 22

Lampoon Magazine, the Commitment Issue – Editor’s Letter

Sustainable crafting and manufacturing had been on our radar for years. The word sustainability was already quite widespread — perhaps a utopia. In collaboration with architect Mr. Stefano Boeri

Carlo Mazzoni

Katerina Jebb, Lampoon Issue 21

Poetry of a Prototype – It’s a matter of love. Lampoon’s Editor’s Letter

Prototype is about challenging ourselves with experimental assets, turning the other cheek. We have cried enough and faced a brave new world

Carlo Mazzoni

art, Venice

Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Venice. DYSFUNCTIONAL and the paradoxes of functional art

DYSFUNCTIONAL: Carpenters Workshop Gallery at Ca’ d’Oro, Venice, an exhibition still relevant today. Error leads to perfection; high quality craftsmanship comes from experience, case analysis, manual skill handed down without theory, and hands-on learning

Carlo Mazzoni

Lampoon issue 23, Marie Tomanova

Lampoon 23 / Transition: to define where we are today

Take it for granted, no excuse: nothing will be ever the same as it was before. It’s a moment of transition. This is a moment of transfer from a rejected dimension to a dimension not yet conceived

Carlo Mazzoni