Lampoon #32 - The Stained Issue

Lampoon #32 - The Stained Issue

 Lampoon 32 – SOAP: We Like It Soapy and Dirty – Fall 2025

SOAP is the title of the new issue of Lampoon Magazine Fall 2025, released worldwide from October 22nd.

Lampoon SOAP is a journey through stains, purity, and contradiction – a visual and textual exploration that stretches from microplastics in oceans to blood on our hands. Soap as the act of cleansing, but also as metaphor: of moral stains, of humanity’s endless cycle of defeat and renewal. Soap is never just soap. It washes, it heals, it purifies – but it also reveals.

Lampoon 32 SOAP dives into the paradox: what does it mean to be clean, when the act of cleaning dirties the water itself? From polluted rivers to stained consciences, this issue uncovers the truth that every life carries its own grime, that sincerity emerges only through contradiction.

/ Features and Photography

We follow the slimy traces of snails in Vienna and Madrid, commission a hemp-based artisanal soap, and photograph Ignazio Gardella’s Tuberculosis asylum. Microscopes, bacteria and molds, imagining the biotechnological futures of microplastic digestion. Sofia Alazraki’s still-lifes are dirty, sticky, refusing polish. François Berthoud says it straight: he doesn’t want to look at the computer anymore. Olivier Zahm and Annabelle Wearthly melt under the sun until they blur. Naguel Rivero keeps fashion stripped to the bone. Mircea Cantor carves Aleppo soap into shapes that still carry the smell of war. Along the Ganges, Rid Burman photographs the collision of sacred water and floating plastic. A tribute to Mr. Giorgio Armani – archival shots mixed with artificial intelligence

/ Soap and Art

Anthea Hamilton confesses, “I’m an oil person.” Andrea Rinaldo, Nobel Prize in tow, calls humanity what it is: “a biological invasion.” Maurizio Cattelan repeats that art is not a detergent. Alex Lawther talks about AI, films, and the pleasure of playing teenage sociopaths. Lara Giliberto writes about saints and dirt, Amanda Wall about stains as scars. Richert Beil leaves instinct in raw space, with latex as skin. Elska Magazine dissects exclusion inside the so-called inclusive gay community.

Lampoon #32, The Stained Issue
/ 6 cover versions
/ 432 pages
/ softcover
/ 2,2 kg
/ 24×32 cm
/ english

One chapter is dedicated to a project by Romain Laprade, who joined us in Rome to explore rationalist and modernist buildings—an unexpected vision of Italy’s capital. A special collaboration with Chanel, involving seven talents from Milan’s creative scene.

/ Features and Photography

Three fashion stories by Rebekah Campbell and Cece Liu in New York with model Tilda Lindstam; by Boris Ovini in Paris with model Charlotte Tomaszewska; and by photographer Alessia Gunawan. Dexter Lander presents a creative narrative playing with fashion and mannequins, transforming them into works of art.

Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek add a new chapter to their Exactitudes project—featuring the emerging independent designer Nada Saves. Still-life perspectives include Adrien Dubost, who incorporates objects discovered during his travels, and Eduard Sánchez Ribot, who develops imagery around the concept of the circular form.

/ Lampoon’s Rough Manifesto

The word Lampoon evokes bite and satire — words like “important” and “fundamental” are banned, letting unfiltered stories tell their own weight. Photography retains its natural grain, revealing each imperfection. The magazine speaks of culture as sustainability, art as respect, and transparency as the only alternative to greenwashing.