Dino Kiratzidis and Michael Spencer Phillips escape the traditional stage
Ahead of the latest installation of their Site-Specific Dances series, the architect and choreographer discuss building from a legacy, and designing for performance
Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese composer and technopop pioneer
Document curates a selection of the musician’s far-ranging work, from synth-heavy film scores to classical ballads to indelible video game soundtracks
Rafael Prieto meditates on the harmony between the natural and man-made
Ahead of his show at Emma Scully Gallery, the artist reflects on his design philosophy, which hinges on the embrace of what’s beautiful in its...
flowerovlove’s scene-by-scene soundtrack to adolescent romance
Following the release of her latest single “Love You,” Joyce Cisse offers a playlist of the pop anthems that shaped her mission of self-love
Thomas Blackshear casts new light on the canon of Western American art
In collaboration with Stetson, the artist personifies the hidden Black cowboy, reimagining Lon Megargee’s iconic painting ‘The Last Drop From His Stetson’
Jessan Macatangay’s soft, scanty, sculptural world
The budding designer fills Document in on his graduate collection—a metaphor for the Filipino woman, derived from personal memory
You probably haven’t heard about the most egregious Oscars snub
‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ won Best Animated Short—the worst contender by far, backed by a celebrity-studded network
Performance Space celebrates new paths across New York’s creative landscape
The arts organization held its annual gala on Saturday, honoring Pope.L, Sarah Schulman, and Michelle Coffey with an intimate dinner theater
Setting the stage for falling in love, or something like it
In the realm of reality dating television, “The Mansion” is a character in and of itself—designed to manipulate contestants, as well as everybody watching
For Winter 2023, Bruno Sialelli observes the far-reaching history of Lanvin
From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to the ’80s, the French house’s latest collection drew from disparate eras to modernize bygone design
Hedi Slimane captures Bob Dylan, the latest in a long line of sonic muses
‘Portrait Of,’ a photographic series co-authored with CELINE, immortalizes those subjects Slimane deems indispensable to music history
Issey Miyake teases out the potential of perfect geometry
Satoshi Kondo’s Fall/Winter 2023-2024 collection derives inspiration from the square, building out new pleats and knits from within the limitations of the form
Loewe conjures fashion’s ghosts
For Fall/Winter 2023, Jonathan Anderson leaned on the ephemeral and the out-of-focus, reducing classic silhouettes down to the “bluntest shape possible”
Lucia Pieroni reflects the harmony between old-school and present-day glamor
The make-up artist shares a backstage look at her process, leading up to Givenchy’s forward-looking Fall/Winter 2023 presentation
Chiiild’s sonic North Stars
Upon the release of ‘Better Luck In The Next Life,’ the Montreal-born artist joins Document to curate a list of transportive tracks
At Paris Fashion Week, Courrèges compels its audience to look up
Nicolas di Felice’s Fall/Winter 2023 show interrogated digital-age addiction, presenting mirrored pendants, deep pockets, and clever cut-outs
Saint Laurent reanimates old-school craft
For Winter 2023, Anthony Vaccarello paid tribute to the house’s historical haute couture venue, imbuing its classics with a modern edge
Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo cultivate the SUNNEI state of mind
Following their crowdsurfing Fall/Winter 2023 runway show, the label’s co-founders reflect on fashion’s boundaries, and the value in breaking them down
Backstage at Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini’s elegant and erotic Milan Fashion Week show
For Fall/Winter 2023, the designer took his namesake label in new directions, imbuing its classic tailoring with an air of romance
Priya Ahluwalia underscores style with sound
Following her standout London Fashion Week show, the designer breaks down the makings of her complex vision, from beading to deadstock to Lauryn Hill
At Milan Fashion Week, Iceberg climbs from the streets to the slopes
James Long’s Fall/Winter 2023 presentation saw models styled along a daring spectrum, testament to the label’s enduring versatility
Peter Phillips renders Fendi’s DIY elegance
The makeup artist takes Document backstage at Kim Jones’s Fall/Winter 2023 show, nodding to punk’s romance as inspired by the wardrobe of Delfina Delettrez Fendi
Peter Lowe snapshots London Fashion Week, capturing a creative landscape in motion
Labels like Erdem and Yufezi approached Fall/Winter 2023 in pursuit of innovation, pulling from the past and the future to inform fashion’s present
JW Anderson meditates on British culture and its fandoms
For Fall/Winter 2023, the label looked back on its last 15 years, splicing its radical iconography with that of legendary choreographer Michael Clark
“A Cross-Section of the City”: Behind Heron Preston’s New York Fashion Week debut
In the aftermath of his Fall/Winter 2023 runway show, Document catches up with the designer reimagining the urban uniform
For Carlita, the art of DJing follows no rules
The Turkish multi-instrumentalist paves her own way through the nightlife scene—seeking to leverage her voice to better our world, and building new sonic ones in...
A night out with DeSe Escobar at CELINE’s Winter 2023 runway show
Hedi Slimane chose Le Palace—Paris’s answer to Studio 54—as the stage and the playground for his latest menswear collection
Puppets and Puppets takes Cronenberg to the cafeteria
Following the fine-art label’s Fall 2023 presentation, designer Carly Mark joins Document to reflect on horror, romance, and the makings of a balanced meal
‘WHO’S WHO’ maps out New York’s cultural players, from fresh faces to old-school characters
Rob Cristofaro and Puma’s joint coffee-table book captures the city's creative landscape through its innovators, across music, sport, food, fashion, art, and performance
‘Mr Wonderful’ memorializes the street art of Richard Hambleton, and a culture in flux
Gallerist Ronald Sosinski and curator Joseph Bannan discuss the making of the retrospective, and the creative legacy of ’80s New York
Feeld is the dating app for the next sexual revolution
Document catches up with Ana Kirova, the radical platform’s founder, examining the roots, rules, and labels of the modern sexual landscape
Mayan Toledano’s portraits rest between the authenticity and fantasy of queer Mexico City
The photographer’s ongoing series ‘No Mamés’ takes the image-making process down to its bare bones, lending intimacy though immediacy
Marni’s Fall/Winter 2023 collection takes to Tokyo, proposing an open-ended approach to high fashion
Francesco Risso’s traveling runway is testament to the house’s global reach, and its alignment with Japan’s design affinities
Word on the Street: Document solicits the public’s opinion on KidSuper’s Louis Vuitton debut
“For me, Louis Vuitton is a tradition. A tradition that evolves with time, evolves with people, evolves with style.”
DIOR haute couture honors Joséphine Baker’s radical mark on style
The house’s Spring/Summer 2023 collection looks to 1920s Paris, channeling the sensibilities of its founder’s best customer
Word on the Street: Document surveys the crowd outside Givenchy’s Fall 2023 menswear show
“It’s audacity. It’s passion. It’s breaking out of the norm.”
Backstage at Hermès’s Winter 2023 menswear show, where metamorphosis is subtle and steady
Véronique Nichanian playfully iterated on the house’s classics, while imbuing her latest collection with an air of sensuality
Saint Laurent’s Winter 2023 menswear show broadened the scope of modern elegance
Anthony Vaccarello’s latest collection was informed by the house’s womenswear DNA, lending new context to classic codes of dress
Pa Salieu is the driving force behind a new cultural narrative
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the breakout musician reflects on his many lives, from the frontline to international fame
The Aging Actress Renaissance is upon us
This year’s Golden Globes reflect an audience ready for stories about complicated women—beyond their twenties
Shawna Ferreira traverses the Portuguese coastline, capturing quotidian magic
Premiering with Document, the filmmaker’s ‘FREE WILL VICE VERSA’ meditates on ritual, mystery, and personal meaning-making
In ‘Reproduction,’ Barry McGee finds sympathy for the junked
The street artist’s previously-unseen photographic practice comes to light in a new book from Aperture
Books Unbanned underscores the library’s legacy as the last institutional bastion of freedom of information
Brooklyn Public Library's program, which features reading material deemed "inappropriate" for youth, combats conservative fear of discourse around protest, bodily autonomy, and reparations
The internet is in its lying era
TikTok’s Celebrity Death trend left the internet divided, signaling the latest generational disconnect on what society finds funny
The Céline Dion Snub: Ignorance, or a ‘Rolling Stone’ bid for hate clicks?
The beloved singer’s absence from the magazine’s ‘200 Greatest Singers of All Time’ list caused an uproar—but was that the point all along?
Unorthodox holiday albums that are actually pretty good
From rap to K-pop to punk rock, Document offers the best festive records from across the musical continuum
Caitlin MacBride and Julia Weist question the institutional archive
For Document, the artists meet to discuss object theory, museum hierarchies, and the responsibilities of creatives who grapple with American stories
The words that (apparently) defined 2022
From ‘goblin mode’ to ‘gaslighting’ to ‘homer,’ dictionaries missed the mark in crowning their official Words of the Year
The etiquette of art world gift-giving
The writer behind Minecraft’s beloved End Poem released his work to the public domain. What do we owe him in return?
