Unmasking Paris Fashion Week’s most controversial, coronavirus-fueled trend
Surgical masks dominated front rows this week—why I'm not wearing fashion's new favorite accessory.
Olaf Breuning refreshes his cheeky creativity in the Hudson River Valley
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Here, Olaf Breuning talks...
Marine Serre takes a page out of ’60s sci-fi
If the Reverend Sister from Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ wore streetwear, it would be the designer's cocoon hoodie.
Olaf Breuning’s attempt to brainwash you with nature
The Swiss artist wants to raise environmental awareness with his latest exhibition at Carbon 12 in Dubai.
Samuel Jablon and Mark Flood talk dirty words, hedonism, psychotropic drugs
The artists find common cause in slowing down the ‘Chelsea shuffle.’
‘Tech-bro X Margaret Thatcher’: artist Simon Denny drops the ultimate anti-capitalist collab
Denny spoke to Document about the politics of power dressing and how Thatcher's neo-liberalism shaped Silicon Valley.
Random Identities’ Stefano Pilati makes clothes for a post-influencer world
Touting an anti-aspirational and anti-establishment ethos, Pilati creates clothing that invite self-creation.
On the eve of A-Cold-Wall*’s first show in Milan, Samuel Ross beckons a new era of luxury
‘There’s a sense of wanting to progress from boyhood to manhood.’ The designer on staying true to his roots while branching into luxury menswear.
Telfar Clemens explains why the Harlem and Italian Renaissances were PR campaigns
Ahead of his Florence show, the designer spoke on his latest collection, the power of kinship, and what he really thinks of the ‘Bushwick Birkin.’
Jil Sander’s sleek, soulful twist on classic Americana
Silver studded leather jackets and eagle brooches accented Luke and Lucie Meier's signature minimalism at Pitti Uomo.
Behind the renaissance of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip
With his latest hotel, Ian Schrager revives LA's iconic after-dark playground.
Mickalene Thomas recreates the sparkling dance parties and radical black aesthetic of the ’70s and ’80s
The artist enlists emerging artists and musicians in an immersive tribute to her mother at Miami's Bass Museum.
Berluti gives original Pierre Jeanneret pieces a jewel-toned rejuvenation
Inspired by Le Corbusier's color collections, Kris Van Assche applied Berluti’s extensive patina process to vintage pieces debuted at Miami's Art Basel.
Bottega Veneta serves burgers with a side of luxury: Inside the brand’s gilded Miami diner
Daniel Lee and friends celebrate the brand's Miami store with boozy milkshakes, gold-wrapped burgers, and a Soul Clap performance.
Photographer Farah Al Qasimi channels her insider-outsider experiences into lyrical, anti-imperialist art
Document visited the artist's Bushwick studio, where Al Qasimi opened up about culture shock, the gendered nature of exorcisms, and why she's done being pigeonholed...
Performa revives the legacy of Oskar Schlemmer, the Bauhaus’s avant-garde theater visionary
The groundbreaking painter, sculptor, designer, choreographer, and Bauhaus teacher was honored at the New York biennial's wildly creative gala last week.
Brendan Fernandes reinterprets Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham’s ‘strange beauty’
The Kenyan-born artist and choreographer on 'Contract and Release,' the performance he choreographed for The Noguchi Museum.
AI companies are extremely white and male—Kate Crawford wants us to push back
The academic and researcher highlighted several disturbing trends in artificial intelligence and the urgent need for collective accountability at Prada’s Shaping a Future conference.
Amanda Gorman, the 21-year-old poet using her words as weapons for change
The National Youth Poet Laureate discussed corporate sustainability with representatives from the United Nations, MIT, and more at Prada’s Shaping a Future conference
Lucia Moholy, the photographer who immortalized the Bauhaus, finally gets her due
The artist meticulously documented the influential art school, but while her male cohorts became legends, her work was misappropriated and forgotten.
Getting weird with mystery Instagrammer Bread Face, the best performance artist you’ll never know
The anonymous artist behind @breadfaceblog on why sunlight is overrated, the cathartic joy of smashing your face into carbs, and why she doesn't care if...
‘Glenn O’Brien: Center Stage’: 17 artists pay homage to the late ‘Style Guy’
The exhibition, curated by Natacha Polaert, features pieces from Dan Colen, Ouattara Watts, and Walter Robinson, among others.
David Antonio Cruz, the artist giving LGTBQ victims of violence a place in art history
5 stories of heartbreak, cruelty, and vibrant, resilient spirit—told by Cruz and his colorful, floral portraits.
Studio visit: Sarah Sze investigates the way we experience time in her Hudson Yards studio
Sarah Sze shows Document around her Hudson Yards studio to see her exploration of the way people experience time through imagery.
4 artists comment on Bill Saylor’s primordial, uncanny allure
‘Bill Saylor is one of the last natural ones. The last wild man. I don’t think people are having kids like him anymore.’ Justin Lowe,...
Assata Shakur to Ta-Nehisi Coates: Talib Kweli’s 5-step literary guide to overcoming adversity
The legendary rapper, who, along with Yasiin Bey, saved a pioneering African-American bookstore in the 90s, curates a booklist for self-reflection and revolution.
The exhibition in Tulum inviting viewers to see, smell, and fight the effects of pollution
Sargasso seaweed is choking Mexican ocean and beaches. Here are the artists and scientist striving for solutions.
An afternoon in New Haven with Tschabalala Self, the artist with Louis Vuitton and Pilar Corrias at her feet
The artist spoke to Document about combatting misconceptions and what it's like to see your art auctioned for half a million and not see a...
Meet the fragrance scientist behind Balenciaga’s blood-and-money scent
Are our noses a portal into our minds? Norwegian artist Sissel Tolaas spoke to Document about why she thinks our sense of smell can change...
J.W. Anderson recognizes the experiential joy of seeing
A figure-eight motif dominated Jonathan Anderson’s stripped down Spring/Summer 2020 collection.
Burberry’s British heritage gets a sexy, sophisticated Italian makeover
For Spring/Summer 2020, Riccardo Tisci reworked Burberry's classic design codes, marrying its Victorian roots with luxury streetwear.
Simone Rocha’s Wren Boy chic is our new pastoral obsession
Inspired by a Irish folk tradition, the designer's Spring/Summer 2020 collection features her signature Victorian ruffles with a rambunctious twist.
Gia Kuan’s guide to making it through NYFW without losing your mind—or your phone
New York's star publicist wants you to please sleep and relax about your next outfit.
Pyer Moss becomes NYFW’s hottest ticket with its message of black liberation
‘We have come tonight to say they can't hurt us no more.’ Kerby Jean-Raymond salutes the Black artists and activists who paved the way.
Gia Kuan, the PR powerhouse behind New York’s fashion renaissance
Meet the first fashion publicist everyone wants to be friends with.
Prada’s latest upcycling initiative takes on ocean pollution
Prada responds to the sustainability challenge with Re-Nylon, its new capsule line of accessories made from recycled materials.
LVMH ushers in the next generation of Lagerfelds
How Karl Lagerfeld's legacy is coming full circle with a 150,000 € prize for emerging designers.
Ghetto Gastro teaches you how to make their award-winning watermelon granita
The Bronx-based collective employs a multidisciplinary approach to food as an act of cultural diplomacy.
Peaches gives sentience to sex toys in her new exhibition, ‘Whose Jizz Is This?’
The iconic performer of ‘Fuck the Pain Away’ marries sex ed, humor, and politics: “I'm not asking everybody to have orgies, I'm just asking people...
Meet the artist spinning Snapchat stories into an interactive soundscape
Christian Marclay gives Snapchat renewed relevance with his LACMA exhibition.
5 tips for mitigating the honey bee crisis—and urban bee keeping is not the answer
The world's top pollinator is under serious threat. Chef Jen Monroe tells us how we can lessen our impact her ethereal, bee-themed dinner.
‘All art is voyeuristic’: Lisa Yuskavage on the joy of provocation
Yuskavage's paintings of nude women and partially clothed girls have raised eyebrows for their perceived carnality. But her subjects never asked you to stare at...
From Tyler, the Creator to ’70s soul: Louise Chen on her refreshing summer playlist
The DJ behind the soundtracks for Dior, Chloé, and Gucci will get you on your feet this weekend
Inside Arden Surdam’s licentious world of seafood, sex, and status
In ‘Offal | East,’ the artist makes the sophisticated look grotesque, and subverts the Eurocentric history of picnics.
Before Boris, there was Thatcher: youth revolt in ’70s London
Photographer Janette Beckman looks back at the mods, punks, and ska kids who stuck it to the man before callouts were cool.
Nike’s legendary 1972 ‘Moon Shoes’ just sold for $437,500
Canadian businessman Miles Nadal completed his haul of 100 of the world’s rarest sneakers.
Pierre Cardin’s intergalactic designs for worlds undiscovered
His Brooklyn Museum exhibition ‘Future Fashion’ opens on the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
What is biocouture? Meet the Japanese designer rendering the needle and thread obsolete
Yuima Nakazato introduces fermented microbes and digital fabrication to the guarded tradition of haute couture.
‘Storytellers of the black narrative’: Revisiting Gordon Parks’s ‘A Great Day in Hip Hop’ 20 years later
Photographer Jamel Shabazz recreates the iconic image of 177 artists including the Wu-Tang Clan and The Roots.
