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Saint Laurent by Jack Pierson and Anders Sølvsten Thomsen

Photographer Jack Pierson and stylist Anders Sølvsten Thomsen capture Anthony Vaccarello’s Saint Laurent for Document Fall/Winter 2018.
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Photography

Photographer Zora Sicher navigates intimacy in the digital age

Zora Sicher documents the evolution of her closest relationships in ‘Progreso 110,’ a collection of platonic love letters, outfit changes, and screenshots.

News

The finance bro guide to #metoo? Avoid women completely

Men on Wall Street are taking to cutting women completely out of their professional lives in order to avoid possible sexual harassment accusations.

Art

Artists Nestor Siré and Julia Weist on Cuba’s underground internet market—and its promise of mobile WiFi

As part of the Document Journal x Prada Mode conversation series at Art Basel in Miami Beach, we highlight six visionary artists changing the future...

Culture

Flatbush Zombies are the hip-hop Santas of NYC

The rap trio brought holiday cheer to Canal Street with their toy-drive that saw all donations and proceeds raised for Camba, a non-profit which connects...

Society

Virgil Abloh and Grace Wales Bonner imagine their ideal cities

Hans Ulrich Obrist asked Virgil Abloh, Grace Wales Bonner, Arthur Jafa, Torkwase Dyson, and Francis Kéré to describe their ideal metropolis at Design Miami/.

Art

Social climbing at Art Basel in Miami Beach

Michael the III takes us through the "who's who" of the art world and his groundbreaking shawarma plate installation in booth A13.

Art

Document and Prada discuss the future of offline media and online identities

At Art Basel in Miami Beach, Document Journal hosted two panels which explored different perspectives from around the globe to reveal the inner workings of...

Art

Raúl de Nieves creates a magical carousel with Bulgari and Art Production Fund

Raúl de Nieves's ‘When I Look Into Your Eyes I See the Sun’ is on view at the Faena Hotel South Beach through the end...

More Above The Fold

Announcing the 2018 The New Vanguard winner: Igor Pjörrt

See Igor Pjörrt's full cover story for Document Fall/Winter 2018

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Revisiting Suck magazine’s experiment in radical feminist pornography

Lynne Tillman and other contributors to Suck magazine look back and analyze the legacy that the transgressive magazine left behind.

by Alison M. Gingeras

Fashion

Fashion’s “new” problem? Moving the needle forward in the age of infinite reference

Is fashion suffering a crisis of originality? We can’t seem to stop talking about who’s stealing from whom but appropriation is a thoroughly old-fashioned practice—the...

by Katharine K. Zarrella

At Alaska’s “ground zero” for climate change, a new generation of activists fights to preserve a vanishing way of life

Photographer Laurence Ellis and Peter H. Gleick chronicle Alaskans' efforts to fight climate change in Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.

by Peter Gleick

Politics

Has the internet broken the marketplace of ideas? Rethinking free speech in the Digital Age

Writer Cody Delistraty explores the limitations of free speech absolution in the era of social media for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.

by Cody Delistraty

Literature

Denham Fouts: The most expensive male sex worker in the world

So-called by novelist Christopher Isherwood, Denham Fouts was pursued by a Greek king, a German baron, a British viscount, and many, many more. Arthur Vanderbilt...

by Arthur Vanderbilt

Literature

A look back at Gore Vidal’s “sexual paradise”

Was Gore Vidal’s objection to being defined as gay intellectual—“post-gay” before his time?—or was it personal, rooted in the sexual mores of a different generation?

by Tim Teeman

Music

Empress Of carves out a kingdom

Empress Of singer Lorely Rodriguez talks about her insistence on living through empathy and her DIY origins in Los Angeles.

by Fiona Duncan

More At Large

Fashion Portfolios

Saint Laurent by Jack Pierson and Anders Sølvsten Thomsen

Photographer Jack Pierson and stylist Anders Sølvsten Thomsen capture Anthony Vaccarello's Saint Laurent for Document Fall/Winter 2018.

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Fashion Portfolio

Tyler Mitchell and Sarah Richardson

For Document Fall/Winter 2018, photographer Tyler Mitchell and Document's fashion

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Fashion Portfolio

Brianna Capozzi and Delphine Danhier

Brianna Capozzi and stylist Delphine Danhier focus on the relationship

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Fashion Portfolio

7 Hours

For "7 Hours," photographer Zhi Wei and stylist Shawn Lakin

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Fashion

Stella Tennant speaks with Tim Blanks about 25 years of era-defining fashion collaborations

Tim Blanks sits down with Stella Tennant to discuss her foray into the fashion world and the importance of utility for clothes at Holland &...

by Tim Blanks

Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the old San Francisco, his new novel, and his first 100 years

The literary legend discusses the legacy of City Lights, anarchism, and the San Francisco that was with editor Ira Silverberg.

by Ira Silverberg

Artist Larry Bell tells architect Frank Gehry about his addiction to beginnings

Architect Frank Gehry and artist Larry Bell speak about their lifelong friendship and ruminate on the possibility of an unregulated art world for Document Fall/Winter...

by Elliott David

Virgil Abloh tells Brooklyn Museum’s Anne Pasternak about the work that can never be erased

Virgil Abloh and Anne Pasternak discuss a "new Renaissance" in Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.

by Anne Pasternack

Estonian Rapper Tommy Cash tells artist Slava Mogutin about the ideology of escapism

For Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue, artist and activist Slava Mogutin and Tommy Cash bond over mafia-esque Russian security and explore their differences in political outlook.

by Slava Mogutin

Actress Mia Goth and dancer David Hallberg uncover hidden symmetries in their artistic practices

In this joint fashion portfolio from Document Fall/Winter 2018 starring the Suspiria actress—photographed by Craig McDean with fashion by Grace Coddington—and conversation with dancer David...

by David Hallberg

In a system that demands simplicity, Miuccia Prada offers complexity without apology

Document editor-in-chief Nick Vogelson meets with Mrs. Prada to discuss the art of subversion, ditching politics for fashion, and why success isn't the key to...

by Nick Vogelson

More Conversations

Alex and Jaime

Alex and Jaime met as strangers at a support group in a nondescript part of London. Here, Alex describes their first encounter, as photographer Markn...

by Alexandera

Loie Hollowell’s bodily landscapes

Loie Hollowell's portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue marks a daring departure from the practice of early female abstractionists, reveling in the eroticism and ethereality...

by Andrianna Campbell

Ebony G. Patterson flashes her discordant opulence

Above, below, beneath provides a window into the political stakes of Ebony G. Patterson's decadent, intricate tapestries from Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.

by Ann Binlot

The fight of black America, through the lens of Gordon Parks

For Document Fall/Winter 2018, The Gordon Parks Foundation contributed an exclusive portfolio of his photographs from that watershed moment in 1963, accompanied by his own...

by Gordon Parks

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