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Fashion

Document celebrates Suspiria with Grace Coddington and Luca Guadagnino

Document editor-in-chief Nick Vogelson, Alek Wek, Mica Arganaraz, Craig McDean, and Doug Lloyd joined Coddington and Guadagnino for an intimate dinner at The Standard.

News

India’s #MeToo movement finally takes hold

Officials respond to rampant accounts of workplace sexual harassment in India, one year after the #MeToo gained momentum in the United States.

Art

For Freedoms launches billboard campaign set to be “largest creative collaboration in US history”

Artists Theaster Gates, Trevor Paglen, Tania Brugera, Hank Willis Thomas, Rashid Johnson, encourage communities to be civically minded through through the billboards.

Art

Kerry James Marshall created comic strip with black characters to show “it can be done”

Undaunted by the lack of black comic characters he saw as a child, African-American artist Kerry James Marshall created a few for the 57th Carnegie...

Literature

Your favorite Disney princess is illegal in Kuwait

Kuwait has banned over 4,000 books in the last five years, including Disney's The Little Mermaid, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Why We Write.

News

United Kingdom appoints suicide minister as global experts announce international mental health crisis

If left unaddressed, mental illness is set to cost the global economy $16 trillion by 2030.

News

Instagram turns towards AI technology to spot bullying in images

New Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced machine learning technology that proactively detects bullying in photos and captions on Instagram.

News

Jakarta set to surpass Tokyo as world’s biggest city

A Euromonitor International report projects that the population of the Indonesian capital will rise to 35.6 million by 2030.

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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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At Large

Essays and Exposés

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

Technology

The complexities of getting off in the age of technological pleasure

Access to sexual pleasure has never been greater than in the present—but has that increased satisfaction?

by Cody Delistraty

Politics

Information overload: When everything is everywhere, how do we understand what’s important?

Political scientist Brendan Nyhan explores where the democratization of information and freedom of choice turn sour for Document's Spring/Summer 2017 issue.

by Brendan Nyhan

Fashion

Fashion Nova on the rise

Document transforms the slinky Instagram clubwear sensation Fashion Nova into an indie punk dream.

by Ann Binlot

Literature

Author Chris Kraus interrogates social practice in her upcoming book of the same name

Chris Kraus makes radical proposals for how art can be read through context and circumstances in Social Practice

by Emily Wells

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Fashion Portfolios

The Outsider

Ryan Croxton and Janina Gruber articulate a vision of elevated menswear no longer at odds with ornamentation, fluidity, or femininity.

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Fashion Portfolio

A marriage: Jacquemus meets the land of strong winds

Photographer Jack Symes and stylist Louise Ford see the brand

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Fashion Portfolio

Play it as it lays

Photographer Bennie Julian Gay and stylist Marie-Therese Haustein juxtapose pleated

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Fashion Portfolio

See the full action of CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC Spring 2019 Men’s and Women’s collection live

Watch the livestream Tuesday September 11th at 8pm.

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Conversations

Casual Encounters with Remarkable Minds

In my own fashion: Kembra Pfahler and Rick Owens

Artist and muse to Rick Owens, Kembra Pfahler sits down with the fashion designer to discuss how she resents art with a capital "A."

by Rick Owens

New York’s unreciprocated love for Benedetta Barzini

Model Benedetta Barzini answered the curse of her cold Italian dynasty upbringing with radical feminism and a surrogate family composed of Salvador Dalí, Lee Strasberg,...

by Chiara Barzini

An intimiate dive in Vince Aletti’s personal collections

Nicholas Weist visited Vince Aletti at his East Village apartment to dissect his immense collection of pop culture, fashion, fine art and gay pulp fiction.

by Nicholas Weist

“It is hard to do ‘new’ when it doesn’t sell”: Richard Buckley on fashion’s ‘new’ problem

Katharine K. Zarrella interviews legendary fashion journalist Richard Buckley about appropriation and copying in fashion from the past to the present.

by Katharine K. Zarrella

“They were a ‘high-tech’ shoe at the time”: Tennis legend Stan Smith on his iconic Adidas sneaker

Ann Binlot quizzes Stan Smith on the 50-year rise of the minimal white shoes Adidas initially named after tennis player Robert Haillet.

by Ann Binlot

Frankie Knuckles and Honey Dijon bring down the house

The late Frankie Knuckles and Honey Dijon both brought Chicago house music to New York, albeit in different decades. Here, the DJs reminisce about a...

by Austin Downey

COS head of menswear design Christophe Copin takes the deep dive into movement

Document talks to Christophe Copin and Karin Gustafsson about art, design, dance and the COS x Pitti Uomo Soma Collection.

by Ann Binlot

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Documented

Visual Reportage and Artist Portfolios

Art

Jack Pierson automates his artistic impulses

The photographer and artist created this portfolio of golden watercolors as a push to get away from the brain and into the hand, a decompressing...

by Jack Pierson

A retrospective into Erwin Blumenfeld’s push for radical photography

Fine art photographer Erwin Blumenfeld’s mesmerizing techniques in and out of the darkroom graced the the world’s finest fashion publications. Vince Aletti explores the man...

by Vince Aletti

This is the New York skyline circa 1980

Glenn O'Brien remembered the atmosphere in 1980 New York, ever present in the timeless beauty of Edo Bertoglio's photographs.

by Glenn O'Brien

Christelle De Castro zooms in on downtown NYC in ‘Citizens of the Bowery’

Christelle De Castro photographed and documented 60 denizens of the Bowery for the citizenM exhibition and documentary Citizens of the Bowery.

by Ann Binlot

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The New Vanguard

Document and Calvin Klein spotlight visionary image makers, with Ford Models, Aperture Foundation, and powered by Swipecast.

Announcing the 2018 The New Vanguard winner: Igor Pjörrt

Document and Calvin Klein are proud to announce Igor Pjörrt as the winner of The New Vanguard, with support from Ford Models and Aperture Foundation,...

Igor Pjörrt

Igor travelled to his home island in Madeira and explored the regional relationship they have with the beach and the countryside. He experiments with the...

Quil Lemons

Quil Lemons travelled to the New York coast for this shoot that sees him capture his model in a setting he describes as “the end...

Ward Roberts

On a rooftop in Sunset Park, Ward Roberts embraces transitory moments of no return—a body in midair or the fleeting, precarious seconds before a looming...

Jan Philipzen

Jan Philipzen invites the viewer to experience an organic and fragmented collection of memories from a road trip through the German countryside. This grunge, 90’s...

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At Large

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

At Large

The complexities of getting off in the age of technological pleasure

Access to sexual pleasure has never been greater than in the present—but has that increased satisfaction?

by Cody Delistraty

At Large

Three emerging Latina artists trace the connection to the ‘Radical Women’ before them

As the Brooklyn Museum shines a long overdue light on two decades of conceptual works by pioneering Latina artists, a trio of emerging New York...

by Dalya Benor

Fashion Portfolio

Backstage as Tbilisi’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week comes into its magnificent own

Photographer Ryan Koopmans captured the playful colors and fearless combinations that have come to define Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi as a singular European spectacle.

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Conversations

Meet the women of Rome’s first all-female motorcycle club

Document speaks with the four members of The Litas, featured in a Bulgari-produced documentary premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival.

by David Plaisant

Documented

The endless drawings of Joan Jonas

Never before published drawings by Joan Jonas that were inspired by a “Female Devouring Ghost” perched on the shore between life and death.

by Gillian Young

Fashion Portfolio

Everything but the kitchen sink

Photographer Alex Lockett and stylist Ai Kamoshita explore the interrelated points of domesticity.

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