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Art

4 creatives on being painted by Chloe Wise

On the occasion of Chloe Wise’s portrait exhibition ‘Not That We Don’t’ at Almine Rech London, Document reached out to her subjects to gain their...

Culture

Anna Delvey’s ‘delusions of grandeur’ and the gaslighting of an entire generation

Anna Sorokin—the fake heiress on trial for swindling New York’s elite—is being propped up as a symbol for millennials as deluded, entitled, and narcissistic.

Art

Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin’s B-horror version of America’s rural fantasy

The artists reconstruct the idea of home in their Fondazione Prada exhibition ”Whether Line.”

Art

Corey Wash’s art is an etiquette class for abject millennials

The artist and model is advocating for better communication through art.

Fashion

Shayne Oliver takes Colmar A.G.E. to the western frontier

The Italian outerwear brand tapped the New York designer for their second collaborative collection.

Art

Trace the ‘Journey of a Raindrop’ at Milan’s Issey Miyake flagship

Issey Miyake tapped Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel to create a series of installations in its Milan flagship for Salone del Mobile.

Art

The women of the Bauhaus who rethought the world—and were forgotten

On the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, look at five groundbreaking women who were erased from art history.

Film

5 Agnès Varda films that taught us how to be vulnerable

Document remembers the vulnerable tenor of Varda’s oeuvre—and the 5 films that it is best embodied by.

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

J.W. Anderson by Bill Georgoussis and Venia Polyhronaki

Photographer Bill Georgoussis and stylist Venia Polyhronaki take light and absence as inspiration for this J.W. Anderson fashion special.

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Catherine Servel and Ye Young Kim

Photographer Catherine Servel and stylist Ye Young Kim collaborate on

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Rahel Weiss and Alice Lefons capture the new Celine handbags

Photographer Rahel Weiss and stylist Alice Lefons showcase the next

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Maxime Imbert and Alice Lefons for Document Online

Photographer Maxime Imbert and stylist Alice Lefons take inspiration from

by Document Journal

More Fashion Portfolios

Film

Noname speaks with Lakeith Stanfield about staying independent

Noname's new track, ‘Song 32,’ is just for her fans. In Document's Spring/Summer 2019 issue, she and Lakeith Stanfield talk dodging and chasing the spotlight.

by Maraya Fisher

Finding inspiration with Mugler’s Casey Cadwallader

Document caught up with Mugler’s designer during Salone del Mobile to find out his tricks and rituals for finding inspiration.

by Ann Binlot

Stella Donnelly is telling the world off, and having fun doing it

The Western Australian-based musician just released her debut album ‘Beware of the Dogs,’ which finds itself as the perfect balance between levity, hushed introspection, and...

by Phil Backes

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

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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