Document Journal

Meet Dope Saint Jude, a rapper giving voice to our collective outrage — Above the Fold
Meet Dope Saint Jude, a rapper giving voice to our collective outrage

Hailing from South Africa, the former drag king deftly straddles the line between the lighthearted and the political
by Tasneem Jacobs

Art from isolation: 9 photographers share a microcosm of their immediate world — Above the Fold
Art from isolation: 9 photographers share a microcosm of their immediate world

Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Bobby Doherty, and Patricia Voulgaris, and more interpret 'isolation' through one picture
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Meet the Coney Island Polar Bears, America’s oldest winter bathing club — Fashion Portfolio
Meet the Coney Island Polar Bears, America’s oldest winter bathing club

Photographer Justin von Olderhausen gets lost in the undertow with the Bears
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Haunted mansions, homoerotic art: Rick Castro’s guide to self-isolating online

Culture

Haunted mansions, homoerotic art: Rick Castro’s guide to self-isolating online

The underground fetish legend picks 6 spooky, sexy things to do on the internet this week

Meet Sudan Archives, the violin player rejecting genre—and Western tuning

Music

Meet Sudan Archives, the violin player rejecting genre—and Western tuning

The musician discusses ethnomusicology, snakes, and finding common ground through defying definition

‘How we react in these times is everything’: designers are halting collections to make medical supplies

Fashion

‘How we react in these times is everything’: designers are halting collections to make medical supplies

Hillary Taymour of Collina Strada explains why she's dropping everything to join fashion's global fight against COVID-19.

Isolation Station: Dope Saint Jude’s 42-track playlist for escaping reality

Playlist

Isolation Station: Dope Saint Jude’s 42-track playlist for escaping reality

Recharge your spirits with uplifting tunes from Princess Nokia, The Jackson 5, Normani, and more

Isabelle Huppert and Robert Wilson on the magic of getting lost in the moment

Fashion

Isabelle Huppert and Robert Wilson on the magic of getting lost in the moment

Document shares an exclusive excerpt from 'Taking Time,' an upcoming book of salon-style conversations hosted by the late Azzedine Alaïa

A night out with MODEL/ACTRIZ, the noise band keeping DIY weird

Music

A night out with MODEL/ACTRIZ, the noise band keeping DIY weird

The band dishes on everything from an ill-fated performance in Berlin to Bertie the Pom

Hard times and heartbreak: Swamp Dogg articulates America’s collective pain through country music

Music

Hard times and heartbreak: Swamp Dogg articulates America’s collective pain through country music

On 'Sorry You Couldn’t Make It,' the 77-year-old soul superstar expounds the radical, black roots of country.

Life lessons from a former dominatrix

Culture

Life lessons from a former dominatrix

Meet Claudia Summers, a downtown rebel who learned S&M methods from Robert Mapplethorpe

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‘Queen & Slim’ star Daniel Kaluuya and author Marlon James are the legendary heroes of the new mythologies they’re creating

Film

‘Queen & Slim’ star Daniel Kaluuya and author Marlon James are the legendary heroes of the new mythologies they’re creating

The Oscar Nominee and Booker Prizewinner on challenging the white gaze, resisting the need to self-justify, and ‘appreciating black art on black terms’ in conversation...

by Bridget Minamore

Colette’s Sarah Andelman and i-D founders Terry and Tricia Jones were influencers before it was a job

Colette’s Sarah Andelman and i-D founders Terry and Tricia Jones were influencers before it was a job

The effortlessly cool trio reflect on curation, team-building, and 40 years of 'i-D' in Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.

by Maraya Fisher

Frida Escobedo and Pedro Reyes look to the future to save Mexico’s lost past

Frida Escobedo and Pedro Reyes look to the future to save Mexico’s lost past

The architect and artist discuss the decolonization of culture and honoring tradition through innovation in Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.

by Alberto Ríos de la Rosa

Roxane Gay, Gloria Allred, and Siri Hustvedt envision the law rewritten by women

Roxane Gay, Gloria Allred, and Siri Hustvedt envision the law rewritten by women

The women discuss the 2020 candidates, reproductive freedom, sci-fi matriarchies, and the power of female anger for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.

by Meg Thomann

King Princess and Mj Rodriguez on the self-actualizing power of inventing a new persona

King Princess and Mj Rodriguez on the self-actualizing power of inventing a new persona

‘Queer people are the reason we have fashion’—the singer and 'Pose' star get real about giving credit, being crowned 'queer icons', and serving a greater...

by Trish Bendix

Damson Idris and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje bring Britain’s dark racial history to light—and discover masculinity’s hopeful future

Damson Idris and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje bring Britain’s dark racial history to light—and discover masculinity’s hopeful future

In 'Farming,' Idris plays a teenage Akinnuoye-Agbaje as he seeks empowerment through joining his neighborhood skinhead gang

by Colin Crummy

‘We’re facing a societal collapse’: Extinction Rebellion’s Roger Hallam speaks to ACT UP’s Peter Staley about disrupting the world in order to save it

‘We’re facing a societal collapse’: Extinction Rebellion’s Roger Hallam speaks to ACT UP’s Peter Staley about disrupting the world in order to save it

As Extinction Rebellion's two-week ‘International Rebellion’ kicks off, Hallam and Staley tell us why civil disobedience is our most viable tool for survival.

by Elizabeth Rush

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Fashion Portfolios

Willy Vanderperre and Olivier Rizzo’s otherworldly ode to Maison Margiela — Fashion Portfolio
Willy Vanderperre and Olivier Rizzo’s otherworldly ode to Maison Margiela

The legendary photographer-stylist duo collaborate on this haunting portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
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Benjamin Hampson pays tribute to the visual poetry of Japan

Benjamin Hampson pays tribute to the visual poetry of Japan

The photographer and stylist Peghah Maleknejad offer this fashion portfolio on the eve of sakura season

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Meet the Coney Island Polar Bears, America’s oldest winter bathing club

Fashion Portfolio

Meet the Coney Island Polar Bears, America’s oldest winter bathing club

Photographer Justin von Olderhausen gets lost in the undertow with

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Paula Knorr, the designer normalizing everyday high glamour

Fashion Portfolio

Paula Knorr, the designer normalizing everyday high glamour

Meet the designer leading the comfort revolution—without sacrificing sequins

by Hannah Miller

Our favorite accessories become a whimsical cast of high-fashion characters

Fashion Portfolio

Our favorite accessories become a whimsical cast of high-fashion characters

Chris Rhodes and Alice Lefons collaborate on this cheeky portfolio

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What will we drive on the moon? Lexus shows Document the future

What will we drive on the moon? Lexus shows Document the future

For Document Fall/Winter 2019, we called upon culture's brightest minds to envision lunar life. Here are Lexus's seven proposals for luxury space travel.

by Maraya Fisher

frog design’s Moon scooters are one giant ‘LEAP’ for transportation

Culture

frog design’s Moon scooters are one giant ‘LEAP’ for transportation

For Document's Fall/Winter 2019 lunar portfolio, the worldwide design firm imagines three products for life on the Moon.

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No need for mooncakes on the Moon

No need for mooncakes on the Moon

For Document's Fall/Winter 2019 lunar portfolio, Shanghai-based architecture duo Neri&Hu offer a meditation on humanity's need for nostalgia.

by Neri&Hu

Why the Moon should operate on a ‘Hotel California’ principle

Culture

Why the Moon should operate on a ‘Hotel California’ principle

‘You can check out but you can't leave.’ Critic and sociologist Steve Fuller makes the case in this installment of Document's imagining of lunar life...

by Steve Fuller

10 extraordinary creators imagine life on the Moon in Document’s ‘Lunar Portfolio’

Architecture

10 extraordinary creators imagine life on the Moon in Document’s ‘Lunar Portfolio’

Lexus, Nike, OMA, DJ Honey Dijon, and more share their visions for what our future among the stars might hold in this portfolio for Document's...

by Meg Thomann

Their lands, our future: photographing the resiliency and innovation in the Zambian floodplains

Photography

Their lands, our future: photographing the resiliency and innovation in the Zambian floodplains

Laurence Ellis documents the Barotseland region for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.

by Clara Malley

The hysteria-inducing, swashbuckling adventurers behind Louis Vuitton’s most well-traveled trunks

Culture

The hysteria-inducing, swashbuckling adventurers behind Louis Vuitton’s most well-traveled trunks

From Douglas Fairbanks, the eccentric, old Hollywood celebrity to Casanova orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski, discover whirlwind lives of the original Louis Vuitton carriers.

by Aaron Hicklin

Borderlands: Mitch Epstein’s portfolio of America’s changing physical and social landscape — Documented
Borderlands: Mitch Epstein’s portfolio of America’s changing physical and social landscape

From gun-toting ranchers to sweeping mountain vistas, the photographer unravels the implicit and explicit politics of the US-Mexico border.
by Drew Sawyer

Art, decadence, and religion: Francesco Vezzoli reinterprets a French literary legend at Musee D’Orsay

Art

Art, decadence, and religion: Francesco Vezzoli reinterprets a French literary legend at Musee D’Orsay

An exhibition exploring the many artistic stages of Joris-Karl Huysmans, as seen by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli for Document Fall/Winter 2019.

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Haegue Yang counters sensory and linguistic isolation with a new artistic grammar

Haegue Yang counters sensory and linguistic isolation with a new artistic grammar

The artist tells a visual story of kinship between humans and hardware with multi-sensory collages for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.

by Sofía Lemos

The body as spectacle: Hayv Kahraman’s contorted female forms personify trauma and resistance

The body as spectacle: Hayv Kahraman’s contorted female forms personify trauma and resistance

The artist examines the human ability to reemerge from oppressive states in this portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.

by Aruna D'Souza

Pope.L layers performances and haunted places to question dominant historical narratives

Pope.L layers performances and haunted places to question dominant historical narratives

Coinciding with the artist's on-going show at the Whitney, Document revisits 'The Escape,' a profound meditation on space, convention, and liberation, in Document F/W 2019.

by Suzie Oppenheimer

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Noname speaks with Lakeith Stanfield about staying independent

Conversations

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

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