Critic’s Notebook: Does anyone care about New York Fashion Week?
For Document's fashion critic Katharine K. Zarrella, the thrills were few and far between at NYFW 2025. A new guard of emerging designers held their...
Critic’s Notebook: Fantasy, history, and the question of wearability
During Couture Week Spring 2025, fashion critic Katharine K. Zarrella reconsiders the role of the time-honored craft as ready-to-wear prices skyrocket
Schiaparelli’s flight beyond the sun
Inspired by the myth of Icarus, Creative director Daniel Roseberry’s Spring Haute Couture 2025 collection showcases feathers brushed in keratin and gravity-defying silhouettes
Lanvin channels Art Deco history for Fall/Winter 2025
Newly appointed creative director Peter Copping presents his debut collection at the Parisian luxury brand
Hermès artistic director Nadège Vanhée’s punk house codes
The French designer explores her vision for the storied maison in Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
Thom Browne’s sartorial encyclopedia
The designer defines the key terms of his fashion lexicon for Document Journal’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
Best in show: Couture Week Fall 2024
Document’s Fashion Critic-at-Large Katharine Zarrella provides her self-proclaimed ‘couch couture’ dispatch surveying this last week in Paris
An exoplanetary archaeology of the Prada archive
For its Spring/Summer 2024 issue, Document shares a series of fashion artifacts recovered from the interstellar future
The gospel of Schiaparelli according to Creative Director Daniel Roseberry and his mom, Fran
Fashion Critic-at-Large Katharine K. Zarrella gets to the heart of sartorial scripture with the mother and son for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
The eternal dreams of Jean Paul Gaultier and Simone Rocha
Wit! Romance! Femininity! The designers talk with Fashion Critic-at-Large Katharine K. Zarrella about the state of haute couture for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
Gareth Pugh reissues Claude Montana’s most iconic looks
Byronesque in collaboration with Farfetch, has reissued 11 key Montana looks under the direction of designer Gareth Pugh.
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...
“I question everything constantly”: Craig Green on how he pushes fashion forward
Katharine K. Zarrella speaks to menswear designer Craig Green about his design process, finding newness in fabric innovation, and inspiring emotion.
