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Art

Art gives a voice to South Asia’s most persecuted communities

‘Fabric(ated) Fractures,’ a group exhibition at Concrete in Dubai, tells the untold stories of rape, religious violence, and loss in South Asia.

Beauty

Anthony Turner’s 6 favorite beauty looks from the Fall 2019 shows

Anthony Turner, a regular Document contributor, takes us through his favorite Fall 2019 shows: No.21, Ann Demeulemeester, Missoni, Erdem, and Rochas.

Beauty

Holli Smith’s 7 favorite beauty looks from the Fall 2019 shows

The hair stylist takes Document backstage to showcase her favorite creations for GmbH, Acne Studios, Kenzo, Eckhaus Latta, Proenza Schouler, and Helmut Lang.

Culture

China learns what happens when you tell goths to remove their makeup

An online protest has erupted in China after a woman was banned from getting on public transport because her goth-style makeup was “too frightening.”

Nightlife

Paradise Found: Can this new club make Times Square fun?

Can the joint venture between ex-Studio 54 proprietor Ian Schrager and the bohemian nightclub House of Yes create a new Paradise in Times Square?

Art

Meet the artist starting a roadkill-to-table revolution

Petr Davydtchenko, who’s been living off roadkill as an alternative to capitalism, likens his practice to the bitcoin revolution.

Culture

Pangolins: The world’s most illegally trafficked animal (and arguably the cutest)

Exploring why the real-life pokemon are the world's most trafficked animals.

Beauty

Thomas de Kluyver’s 6 favorite beauty looks from the Fall 2019 shows

The make up artist drew inspiration from late 90s proms, a punk Oliver Twist, and Japanese cosplay.

More Above The Fold

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

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

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

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

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

More At Large

Fashion Portfolios

Catherine Servel and Ye Young Kim

Photographer Catherine Servel and stylist Ye Young Kim collaborate on a story inspired social dialogue surrounding feminism, race, beauty, and sexuality.

by Clara Malley

Fashion Portfolio

Maxime Imbert and Alice Lefons for Document Online

Photographer Maxime Imbert and stylist Alice Lefons take inspiration from

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Suffo Moncloa and Gary David Moore

Suffo Moncloa and Gary David Moore join forces in a

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Carlijn Jacobs and Imruh Asha

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

by Document Journal

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Art

Kunle Martins and Jack Pierson invite you to their ‘Pee Party’

The two artists discuss love, life, and their first exhibition together at Jeffrey Stark.

by Ann Binlot

Claire Barrow shuns perfectionism to embrace mistakes

The designer discusses beauty standards, her TV addiction, and her first memories of creating fashion.

by Alice Lefons

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

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

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

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

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

by Allie Monck

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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