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The Milan Fashion Week report: polka dots, stripes and 50 shades of brown

Document looks at the trends from Milan's designers, from Luke and Lucie Meier’s easygoing minimalism at Jil Sander to Domenico Dolce’s and Stefano Gabbana’s Italian...

News

It’s been a high time for marijuana stocks

The reason for the sudden so-called green rush is thanks to Canada becoming the only wealthy nation in the world to fully legalize marijuana.

Art

Wolfgang Tillmans questions himself in David Zwirner exhibition

“How likely is it that only I am right in this matter?” asks photographer Wolfgang Tillmans through abstract ink prints, raw portraiture, and his artful...

Architecture

Prada invites a trio of female architects to reimagine black nylon—its signature fabric

For Spring/Summer 2019, architects Cini Boeri, Elizabeth Diller and Kazuyo Sejima created new accessories in black nylon for Prada.

Music

Congress to vote on the Music Modernization Act

If the bill passes, it will attempt to correct the discrepancies in compensation that came about as digital music platforms emerged.

Art

Steve McQueen to photograph an entire grade of school children across London

The artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has invited every London primary school to register for a date and time to have its students sit...

Fashion

The London Fashion Week report: Victorian codes, a visit to an English garden, and ruffles abound

Document looks at the trends of London Fashion Week, from lace-trimmed garments at Burberry, to florals at Pringle of Scotland and Erdem.

Politics

Why didn’t we learn from Anita Hill? Like the scandal 30 years ago, professor accuses Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh of sexual assault

The U.S. Supreme Court should hold itself to higher standards as Kavanaugh's nomination hangs in the balance.

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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

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

Dialogue: Private tales

Photographer Mara Palena and stylist Patricia Villirillo provide a tender look at MSGM and its wearers, as they find themselves on their own, just them...

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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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Fashion Portfolio

Hollow Gold

Photographer Andrew Jacobs and stylist Herin Choi investigate the symbiotic

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Conversations

Casual Encounters with Remarkable Minds

Fashion

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

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

Pat and Anna Cleveland find the rainbows in family jewels

The mother-daughter duo recount their favorite fashion moments and discuss how their differing personalities come out while modeling together.

by Ann Binlot

Larry Clark and Chloë Sevigny reunite and reminisce

The director sits down with Chloë Sevigny, who first appeared in his cult classic Kids, to discuss his film Marfa Girl, underage sex scenes and...

by Chloë Sevigny

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

Writer Mark Smith sat down with the Swedish co-founder to discuss his past and taking it slow in the age of instant celebrity.

by Mark Smith

Vaginal Davis skypes with artist Bjarne Melgaard about toe sucking, Xerox parties, and her many personas

From Berlin, to Bowie, to sexual frustration, the artists discuss the experiences which fuel their creative projects for Document's Fall/Winter 2015 issue.

by Nick Vogelson

Detroit artists Jova Lynne and Mario Moore question the class and racial complexities of leisure

Megan Wray Schertler spoke to Jova Lynne and Mario Moore during Detroit Art Week.

by Megan Wray Schertler

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Documented

Visual Reportage and Artist Portfolios

Art

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

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

Stef Mitchell captures a haunting adolescence in ‘One Damn Thing After Another’

The photographer captures the blur of transitioning from childhood to adulthood in her trademark poetic approach.

by Shawn Lakin

“It’s like a blood bath”: Inside the student protests rattling Bangladesh

Document's New Vanguard Special Reportage winner Tahia Farhin Haque reports from the front lines of the student protests in Dhaka.

by Caroline Christie

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The New Vanguard

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

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...

Lucie Khahoutian

Lucie Khahoutian contrasts the human form with the natural landscape in this dreamy yet lucid sequence of images. The collage-style shoot creates playful encounters between...

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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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