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Moncler in motion: watch 9 Genius collaborations come to life

Watch as Moncler premiers its latest Genius collaborations at Milan Fashion Week.

by Hannah Ongley

Inside Moncler’s expansive creative playground with Alyx, Craig Green, and Hiroshi Fujiwara — Above the Fold
Inside Moncler’s expansive creative playground with Alyx, Craig Green, and Hiroshi Fujiwara

The French-Italian luxury sportswear brand recruits streetwear legends and couture royalty for its most ambitious, inclusive season yet.
by Hannah Ongley

Shades of Skin: class warfare and indigenous pride in Mexico City — Above the Fold
Shades of Skin: class warfare and indigenous pride in Mexico City

Why is what is beautiful to some cultures considered unattractive in others? In this series, Document investigates ideas of beauty, class, and race around the world—and questions how we can shed this social conditioning.
by Ann Binlot

This Supreme cherub figurine is Spring 2019’s hottest accessory

Fashion

This Supreme cherub figurine is Spring 2019’s hottest accessory

A non-comprehensive ranking of Supreme's Spring 2019 collection.

Behind the scenes with the fresh, new faces of London Fashion Week

Fashion

Behind the scenes with the fresh, new faces of London Fashion Week

Peter Lowe caught up with the designers and models who delivered a beautiful new edge to Fashion Week.

Filmmaker Jenn Nkiru reclaims the black origins of techno

Art

Filmmaker Jenn Nkiru reclaims the black origins of techno

With her new film ‘Black to Techno,’ commissioned by Gucci and Frieze, the filmmaker looks to the genre's beginnings in the Motor City.

Roksanda Ilinčić’s makes extravagant, minimalist magic

Fashion

Roksanda Ilinčić’s makes extravagant, minimalist magic

Peter Lowe goes backstage at Roskanda Fall 2019

For people with disabilities, mountains are more accessible than museums

Culture

For people with disabilities, mountains are more accessible than museums

How the travel company Wheel the World is making Machu Picchu more accessible to visitors of all abilities

Inside Christopher Kane’s house of kink

Fashion

Inside Christopher Kane’s house of kink

Backstage as Christopher Kane puts sexual fetishes on parade for Fall 2019.

Shades of Skin: exploring the complex history of colorism around the world

Beauty

Shades of Skin: exploring the complex history of colorism around the world

Why is what is beautiful to some cultures considered unattractive in others? In this series, Document investigates ideas of beauty, class, and race around the...

As Brexit looms, London fashion designers tell us why we need a second referendum

Culture

As Brexit looms, London fashion designers tell us why we need a second referendum

With backlash towards Brexit reaching a tipping point at London Fashion Week, three designers tell us how they are being affected by the decision to...

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

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

Peter Saville’s fashion apocalypse now

Fashion

Peter Saville’s fashion apocalypse now

The graphic artist discusses his relationships with Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas and why it’s time to ask the hard questions about the fashion industry.

by Hilary Moss

Andre Walker’s uniquely candid approach to aesthetics basics

Fashion

Andre Walker’s uniquely candid approach to aesthetics basics

Hilton Als captures Andre Walker's ingenious, sensual world in a cross-cultural stream of consciousness.

by Hilton Als

Revisiting Suck magazine’s experiment in radical feminist pornography

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fashion Portfolios

Rahel Weiss and Alice Lefons capture the new Celine handbags — Fashion Portfolio
Rahel Weiss and Alice Lefons capture the new Celine handbags

Photographer Rahel Weiss and stylist Alice Lefons showcase the next season's handbag collection from Hedi Slimane's Celine.
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Maxime Imbert and Alice Lefons for Document Online

Maxime Imbert and Alice Lefons for Document Online

Photographer Maxime Imbert and stylist Alice Lefons take inspiration from the lighthearted awkwardness of teenage parties.

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Suffo Moncloa and Gary David Moore

Fashion Portfolio

Suffo Moncloa and Gary David Moore

Suffo Moncloa and Gary David Moore join forces in a

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Carlijn Jacobs and Imruh Asha

Fashion Portfolio

Carlijn Jacobs and Imruh Asha

Photographer Carlijn Jacobs and stylist Imruh Asha employ restrictive, sculptural,

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Roe Ethridge and Jodie Barnes

Fashion Portfolio

Roe Ethridge and Jodie Barnes

Photographer Roe Ethridge and stylist Jodie Barnes team up in

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Alok Vaid-Menon wants you to embrace vulnerability this Valentine’s day

Art

Alok Vaid-Menon wants you to embrace vulnerability this Valentine’s day

The poet and performer, who will stage three different happenings for Valentine's Day, discusses the evolution of their personal style and challenging the established meaning...

by Sara Radin

Puppets and Puppets: fantastical costumes for a downtown fashion crowd

Puppets and Puppets: fantastical costumes for a downtown fashion crowd

Created by Carly Mark and Ayla Argentina, the new fashion community looks to fuse art and fashion with a real New York twist

by Paige Silveria

Tattooist Maxime Plescia-Büchi ponders the lovely ubiquity of symbols

Tattooist Maxime Plescia-Büchi ponders the lovely ubiquity of symbols

In anticipation of the opening of his third tattoo studio, Sang Bleu LA, contemporary tattoo behemoth Maxime Plescia-Büchi discusses aesthetics and the potentially tumultuous state...

by David Aaron Brake

Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad on the evolution of Girlpool

Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad on the evolution of Girlpool

The duo behind Girlpool sit down with Document to discuss their new album and their evolving relationship to each other and their music.

by Samuel Gamberg

Gianni Lee and Elise Peterson on Black art and brainstorming the future

Gianni Lee and Elise Peterson on Black art and brainstorming the future

The artists discuss communal responsibility and imagine Black futures through their work and experience.

by Allie Monck

Sita Abellan talks to electroclash legend Kittin about defying haters and making history

Sita Abellan talks to electroclash legend Kittin about defying haters and making history

The self-described technoprincess talks to Caroline Hervé (Miss Kittin) about proving yourself in an image-obsessed world.

by Hannah Ongley

Into the woods: Acne Studios’ Jonny Johansson takes on the Swedish outdoor icon Fjällräven

Into the woods: Acne Studios’ Jonny Johansson takes on the Swedish outdoor icon Fjällräven

For Document Fall/Winter 2018, writer Mark Smith sat down with the Swedish co-founder to discuss his past and taking it slow in the age of...

by Mark Smith

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Liz Johnson Artur captures black love and non-binary nightlife in London — Documented
Liz Johnson Artur captures black love and non-binary nightlife in London

The Russian-Ghanaian photographer presents her portfolio ‘Return to Forever’ for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.
by Drew Sawyer

The timeless rebellion of Matchless, Britain’s oldest motorcycle brand

With expertise in creating leather garments to be worn for racing, the company’s signature design brings a finesse and poise to the quintessential motorcycle grunge.

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Alex and Jaime

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 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

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

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Sita Abellan talks to electroclash legend Kittin about defying haters and making history

Conversations

Sita Abellan talks to electroclash legend Kittin about defying haters and making history

The self-described technoprincess talks to Caroline Hervé (Miss Kittin) about proving yourself in an image-obsessed world.

by Hannah Ongley

Photographing the everyday lives of Havana’s future boxing champions

Above the Fold

Photographing the everyday lives of Havana’s future boxing champions

With his new photo journal ‘Boxing in Havana,’ Dominick Sheldon celebrates Cuba's rich sporting history.

by Hannah Ongley

Close Journal’s new issue will make you want to call your mom

Above the Fold

Close Journal’s new issue will make you want to call your mom

The bi-coastal magazine explores the myriad meanings of "family" through fashion, art, photography, and design.

by Ann Binlot

At Hedi Slimane’s triumphant Celine men’s debut

Above the Fold

At Hedi Slimane’s triumphant Celine men’s debut

The designer’s Fall/Winter 2019 menswear collection for Celine arrived with rock star swagger, an electrifying soundtrack, and some seriously covetable outerwear.

by Hannah Ongley

Aries, David Sims, and Jeremy Deller create a streetwear tribute to Stonehenge

Above the Fold

Aries, David Sims, and Jeremy Deller create a streetwear tribute to Stonehenge

Aries designer Sofia Prantera talks to Document about shooting a fashion campaign at the world's most famous Neolithic monument.

by Hannah Ongley

The Asian designers of London transforming the meaning of culture

Above the Fold

The Asian designers of London transforming the meaning of culture

In the midst of globalization, appropriation, and rising nationalism, meet the designers redefining fashion's view of "the East."

by Lulu Yao Gioiello

Eric N. Mack challenges conventional painting at the Brooklyn Museum

Above the Fold

Eric N. Mack challenges conventional painting at the Brooklyn Museum

The painter dives in on his experience as a black man from DC metro area influenced by art and fashion in his new Brooklyn Museum...

by Ann Binlot