Afternoon Song
Photographer Parker Woods and Document’s Senior Fashion Editor-at-Large Shawn Lakin collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 issue...
Freddie Gibbs and Moxie Marlinspike decrypt the modern American Dream
...Earrings, ring, and watch (worn throughout) Freddie’s own. Photographed in Los Angeles. Fashion Editor: Shawn Lakin. Photo Assistant Walker Lewis. Alex Hodor-Lee: You’re both described...
Nia DaCosta and Karyn Kusama tell horror stories that can set us free
...wears top by Fear of God Exclusively for Ermenegildo Zegna. Necklace by BVLGARI. Photographed by Pat Martin in Los Angeles. Fashion Editor: Shawn Lakin. Hair...
Monika Silva’s Gauge81 is reviving early aughts sexuality with Francophone flair
...or corporate—and never both. Her designs are for “a modern woman,” Silva tells Document’s Senior Fashion Editor, Shawn Lakin, adding that she feels her brand...
Chloë Sevigny, Haifaa al-Mansour, Hailey Gates, and So Yong Kim on why film’s future belongs to outsiders
...that I want to focus on changing in the next ten years. Haifaa wears dress by Miu Miu. Photographed by Lindsay Ellary in Los Angeles....
Ziwe Fumudoh and Patti Harrison talk Christian guilt, shitty exes, and Spice Girls
...1952. Tights stylist’s own. Right: Shirt by Y-3. Tie stylist’s own. Photographed by Parker Woods in Los Angeles. Fashion Editor: Shawn Lakin. Photo Assistant Mikayla...
Designer Alexandra Groover manifests our universal need for mysticism—and hoodies
...Sir Paul Smith after wandering into his curiosity shop. Shawn Lakin: How did you get started designing? Alexandra Groover: One day while digging in the...
Gucci’s 12-hour live stream forgoes fantasy for radical transparency
Gucci’s much-anticipated, 12-hour live stream commenced this morning with a ’90s art net-look in the Palazzo Sacchetti and its idyllic garden. The 76 looks flashed...
Fashion from Isolation: 5 designers create looks using only household items
Throughout lockdown, Document has asked fashion designers and artists to engage in an exercise for their creative muscles. Using only household items, they were tasked...
Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched: Fashion idioms with Marni
Duane Michals and Shawn Lakin bring our favorite phrases to life for Document's Spring/Summer 2020 issue...
4 Moncler Simone Rocha takes flight
...lacing on skates and the otherworldly ceremony of the performance itself. Starring Chiquita Limer and Jordan Bailey. Makeup Dan Duran. Hair Erol Karadag. Casting Shawn...
Rare Birds: 4 Moncler Simone Rocha comes to life on ice
...Kincaid. Senior Producer Brigitte Bishop. Production Coordinator Steven Almonte. Director Margot Roussel. Director of Photography Alberto Mojica. Editor Yago Hunt-Laudi. Casting Shawn Lakin and Diana...
Welcome to Café Forgot, the shop serving curated fashion with a healthy dose of irreverence
...of almost entirely bespoke and handmade treasures that they attest to as a design as art practice rather than as fashion with a capital ‘F.’...
The masks we wear: haunting the streets and offices of New York City
Document celebrates spooky season with a masquerade-centric editorial by photographer Jackie Kursel and Document senior fashion editor Shawn Lakin.
Early Halloween, the iconic costume source where you can find Elvis jumpsuits and showgirl headdresses
...the conservators of this two-story Chelsea legend as they prepare to close their doors this year. Early Halloween is currently selling their stock. Created by...
High fashion coloring and Mad Libs with CDLM’s Chris Peters
...fashion editor Shawn Lakin. Models Cameron Aoyama at Unite Unite, Megan Renée at Unite Unite, and Vera Bulder at No Agency. Hair Kazuhide Katahira. Casting...
10 accessories designers to watch, as worn by a (temporary) tattooed lady and a glamorous sharpei
Photographer Jens Ingvarsson and Document’s Shawn Lakin collaborate on a fashion portfolio for Document Online....
A — Company’s Midsommar decadence for downtown New Yorkers
...well-structured, yet surrealist garments. Styled by Document’s very own Shawn Lakin, light-toned pieces throughout the video showcase A — Company’s dreamlike aesthetic. Stemless flowers scattered...
Document sent an actual puppet to watch the Puppets and Puppets show at NYFW
From the mind of Carly Mark and Ayla Argentina came a spellbinding happening inside the Prince George Ballroom on Sunday evening. Since her recent diversion...
Inside Albright Fashion Library with its notorious gatekeeper, Patricia Black
...for the viewing pleasure.” Created by Shawn Lakin. Produced by 90° Collective. Executive Producer Ameer Kazmi. Featuring Patricia Black. Director Jarod Taber. Director of Photography...
Sarai Mari owns her existential crisis
Sarai Mari’s newest photography book is launching this Thursday, July 11th at OnCanal with a celebration and gallery exhibition. Delusion grapples with the photojournalist turned...
Chopova Lowena riot grrrls take over the East Village
...York City. Shawn Lakin—Congrats on the new campaign. It looks so good. Both—Thank you. Shawn—Do you want to introduce yourselves to our readership? Emma Chopova—So,...
Bethany Williams, patron saint of socially conscious fashion
...people on society’s fringes, and her collections are often modeled by homeless and struggling youth. Document’s Shawn Lakin discussed with the designer the importance of...
Jil Sander+ by Andrew Jacobs and Shawn Lakin
...blue for the sea, a milky white like a blanket of snow. Document’s senior fashion editor Shawn Lakin teamed up with photographer Andrew Jacobs to...
On the brink of environmental catastrophe, 6 designers hope to create change
As the fast fashion empire grows and wearing an outfit solely for one instagram picture approval is becoming more commonplace, who will save us from...
Bianca Saunders, the London designer inspired by Frank Ocean and her father
...of draping, cinching, accentuating each quintessential garment allow her to explore and broaden as she so eloquently puts it “the spectrum of masculinity.” Document’s Shawn...
Sam Nixon and Shawn Lakin
Photographer Sam Nixon and stylist Shawn Lakin take to Far Rockaway in New York for Document Online.
Chris Rhodes and Shawn Lakin pay tribute to Jean Cocteau
Photographer Chris Rhodes partners with Document’s senior fashion editor Shawn Lakin to shoot Louis Vuitton women’s on location at Jean Cocteau’s home in Paris....
Gabriel Held’s 12 favorite Camp moments in TV and film
As Susan Sontag famously detailed in her 1964 essay “Notes on Camp,” “camp” was invented to describe something long in existence but rarely defined. In...
Secret Magazine celebrates our generation’s boundless curiosity
...who write about kids think they are,” said Ihaza. Document’s Shawn Lakin discussed with the founder and the art director about how large media outlets...
Shayne Oliver takes Colmar A.G.E. to the western frontier
Shayne Oliver is back with his most recent collaboration with Colmar A.G.E. The Italian outwear brand and the New York designer have teamed up to...
Anti-Agency is pushing modeling to new, inclusive heights
Ever since its inception in 2013, London based modeling agency Anti has centered itself around inclusivity. Since then, they have grown a client base that...
Close Journal’s new issue will make you want to call your mom
As a freelance photographer and the US fashion editor for Document, Ryan James Caruthers and Shawn Lakin count both count editing—in Caruthers’s case, images, and...
Inside Virgil Abloh’s iridescent Louis Vuitton pop-up in NYC
Louis Vuitton has set up a “temporary residency” inside the West Village’s Chrome Hearts flagship, allowing fans first dibs on Virgil Abloh’s debut Spring/Summer 2019...
On Drake Carr’s holiday wishlist? X-Men comics and Versace ceramics
As 2018 comes to a close, Document is asking friends and contributors what items they have their eye on, and what their hopes are for...
Holidays with Maya Laner: Fresh latkes and a monogrammed Dior bag
As 2018 comes to a close, Document is asking friends and contributors what items they have their eye on, and what their hopes are for...
Christmas with Three Busy Debras: Gucci sweaters and Grandma’s cooking
As 2018 comes to a close, Document is asking friends and contributors what items they have their eye on, and what their hopes are for...
Richie Shazam’s LIT Christmas: elf ears and Louis Vuitton
As 2018 comes to a close, Document is asking friends and contributors what items they have their eye on, and what their hopes are for...
James Veloria’s perfect holiday season: midwestern cooking and Balenciaga earrings
As 2018 comes to a close, Document is asking friends and contributors what items they have their eye on, and what their hopes are for...
Eckhaus Latta’s first permanent New York store is a blank slate
Another hidden gem has lodged itself in the Chinatown mall located under the Manhattan Bridge—already home to vintage paradises James Veloria and Templo, 2 Bridges...
7 Hours
For “7 Hours,” photographer Zhi Wei and stylist Shawn Lakin take inspiration from performance art and soft sculptural forms. They blend natural, earth toned fabrics...
Miu Miu by Gray Sorrenti and Shawn Lakin
Photographer Gray Sorrenti and Document's US Fashion Editor Shawn Lakin join forces with Miu Miu for Document Fall/Winter 2018....
8 global track and field stars walked on Virgil Abloh’s Off-White SS19 runway
Since Nike announced its partnership with Virgil Abloh, the Off-White founder and Louis Vuitton men’s artistic director has not disappointed. Not only in the design...
Jil Sander’s latest collection springs forth
Since their start in 2017, Luke and Lucie Meier have approached their reign over Jil Sander by leading with intuition and a consciousness for materiality....
Luar’s Angels: Raul Lopez’s renaissance-inspired collection
Document went behind the scenes this season with CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist, designer Raul Lopez of Luar. The show was a blur of immaculately-tailored all...
I went back to school on Vaquera’s Spring/Summer 2019 runway
Document US fashion editor Shawn Lakin describes her moment as a model for Vaquera's high school-themed Spring/Summer 2019 show....
Telfar’s ‘post-identity’ aesthetic emerges on an East River helipad
The evening rain didn’t stop people from entering Blade Lounge East helipad—the setting for an iconic portrait of Biggie Smalls, Lil Kim and Junior Mafia—along...
Eckhaus Latta brings its inner circle to Bushwick for Spring/Summer 2019
Since Eckhaus Latta’s conception in 2013, the bi-coastal design duo Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta have managed to merge together the worlds of art and...
Recalling the big hair and even bigger personalities of Wigstock
In 1984 in New York’s East Village at Tompkins Square Park the first Wigstock took place, and has since grown into one of the biggest...
