Under the umbrella of tradition, Issey Miyake innovates
The Japanese label’s Spring/Summer 2024 Homme Plissé show refined and paid homage to tried-and-true techniques
At the Hôtel des Invalides, Givenchy inverts and elevates the schoolboy uniform
Matthew Williams’s Spring/Summer 2024 collection held onto functionality, while ditching the rigidity of the attire of his youth
Inside the Jeffries and Jonah Almost’s Outer Heaven soirée
The party kicked off Pride Month, uniting a dynamic crew of creatives under one roof in the Bowery
The Broken Arm marks a 10-year legacy of radical and personal taste
At Paris Fashion Week, founders Guillaume Steinmetz, Anaïs Lafarge, and Romain Joste reminisce on the venture’s beginning
‘Paris Memories’ probes the act of recollection, through its ties to community and death
Alice Winocour’s latest film follows in the French tradition of psychological cinema, with trauma as the impetus for coming-together
May Rio’s booklist for reinventing the damsel in distress
Following the release of her sophomore album ‘French Bath,’ the musician compiles incisive texts by modern female authors
Objects of Desire: Ferragamo’s Minaudiere Bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
The enduring impulse of Adam Goldberg
Following his stint as a jury member at the Tribeca Film Festival, the actor joins Document to anatomize his storied career
For Tim Bernardes and Rodrigo Amarante, pleasure is the point
In the throes of touring, the musicians reflect upon recent collaborations, and affirm that any wishes for their continuation are likely to come true
Zegna marries the natural with the pragmatic
For Spring/Summer 2024, Alessandro Sartori leans into linen’s flexibility with tailored ensembles both unconstricted and functional
A brief history of tweed, from the Scottish countryside to Karl Lagerfeld
The fabric has utilitarian roots and elegant connotations—neither of which has been lost in its recent cultural resurgence
The coronation of Charles Jeffrey Loverboy
The label’s Spring/Summer 2024 collection subverts the hallmarks of British royalty, irreverently reinventing the status symbol for the future
JW Anderson distorts domesticity for Spring/Summer 2024
The designer’s latest menswear collection riffs on tradition and reimagines knitwear, drawing humor and beauty from the mundane
For Spring/Summer 2024, MSGM rests between the ethereal and the terrestrial
With organic textiles, subtle animal prints, and earthy tones, Massimo Giorgetti embeds personal experience into his label’s legacy of play
Livestream the Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring/Summer 2024 show here
Watch the stream live this Tuesday, June 20 at 9:30 p.m. CEST / 3:30 p.m. EST
The queer performers keeping the Chelsea’s subversive legacy alive
Decades after its heyday, the historic hotel serves as a safe haven for burlesque and sideshow artists to perform their most transgressive acts
In Daniel Arnold’s New York, everyone is God
Ahead of the publication of his zine for New York Life Gallery, the photographer joins Document to ruminate on the philosophies of his practice
‘Castro to Christopher’ documents bygone queer utopias
Nicholas Blair’s debut photography book offers a vision of Pride on the cusp of AIDS, from the streets of San Francisco and New York
Jessica Stoya and Samantha Cole on sex, tech, and censorship
The adult industry experts join Document to discuss the internet’s horny history and the shadowy forces that determine what kind of porn you see
Carlos Idun-Tawiah recasts his boyhood
The photographer’s ‘Sunday Special’ series blurs memory with fiction in staged recollections along the coast of Ghana
Charting manga and anime’s trans history, from the ’60s through today
Japan has a ways to go in terms of LGBTQ+ rights—but its media reflects a wide range of progressive stories, shedding subtlety over time
Objects of Desire: Givenchy’s Voyou Bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
For Caterina Barbieri, a record is a photograph
Ahead of the release of ‘Myuthafoo,’ the composer joins Document to detail the dynamic process of her craft, and unpack its origins
Blush wants to teach you how to flirt
The dating simulator is the latest of several AI apps aimed at improving your game—but its chatbots are anything but smooth
Saint Laurent renders classic suiting light-as-air
Anthony Vaccarello took to Berlin for Summer 2024, presenting a menswear collection marked by feminine details and a cohesive silhouette
Tamo Jugeli lets the process lead her paintbrush
The Georgian artist speaks on creative risk-taking, the chaos of New York, and stumbling upon her craft
Geese’s booklist for finding nuance in nightmares
The Brooklyn-based band offers Document a selection of books that embody the same ethos as their upcoming sophomore record, ‘3D Country’
Queerness is an ancient medicine
Kelsey Rhodes unravels the inherent power of Pride, its history, and collective community’s capacity for diversifying modes of care
Daytripping: Embracing the barely-known
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark mediates on the work of Elysia Crampton, and the problem of letting otherness into our lives
Meet Rayne Fisher-Quann, the people’s (internet) princess
The Canadian essayist joins Document to discuss online culture, the modern mental health landscape, and playing a character who just happens to be herself
For Oliver Frank Chanarin, fact is forever in flux
Following the release of ‘A Perfect Sentence,’ the photographer joins Document to unpack the still-evolving philosophies of his practice
Brontez Purnell’s parafiction of performance
Staged at Trotter & Sholer, the artist’s first solo exhibition challenges the borders of identity and artifice, dreaming of an in-between space
Kristie Muller’s subject is peculiarity itself
For Document, the photographer shares a selection of images that illustrate the weight of perspective
Objects of Desire: Alaïa’s Le Cœur Bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
Erdem Moralıoğlu’s costuming bridges dynamism with delicacy
For the Royal Opera House’s ‘Corybantic Games,’ the designer recasts visions of intimacy, athleticism, and ’50s femininity
Transcending Cannes—at Cannes
Despite its reputation as a playground for the industry’s elite, this year’s festival selection did champion a diverse intellectual spirit
The resurrection of Youth Lagoon
Ahead of the release of ‘Heaven Is a Junkyard,’ Trevor Powers joins Document to discuss dogs, God, names, and music
The curious case of hallucinating chatbots
Microsoft Bing went off the rails, and Google’s Bard made an error in its first public demo—yet search engines are still racing to integrate AI
The Deep Water Literary Festival builds upon George Orwell’s enduring vision
The small town of Narrowsburg, New York will host contemporary literature’s visionaries, as they reflect on the great English novelist’s legacy
For Jeanette Andrews, magic is a mode of philosophy
Ahead of the premiere of ‘In Plain Listen,’ the artist joins Document to examine the meaning of her medium, and make a case for its...
Reading Sean DeLear: A vicarious, astral convergence of past and future lives
Journey Streams reflects on ‘I Could Not Believe It,’ the artist’s 1979 diary archiving the complex landscape of adolescent Black queerness
True crime TikTokers are employing AI to resurrect murder victims
Deepfakes, which have long been used to create explicit content without consent, are now being leveraged to craft a new kind of trauma porn
The vulgar, campy, radical world of filmmaker Bruce LaBruce
From the prop room of his upcoming feature ‘The Visitor,’ the shock connoisseur talks Pasolini, religious ecstasy, and the true ethos of experimental art
A tech bro created an AI-powered clone of his own girlfriend
The framework for the project, dubbed ‘GirlfriendGPT,’ is now available online, spurring concerns about consent in the era of customized chatbots
‘Titanic Depression’ is not a parody
Following a two-night run of her show, Jibz Cameron joins Document to philosophize on Jack and Rose, tragedy addiction, and the nature of performance
Objects of Desire: Moschino’s Flamingo Heels
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
Finding the words to reconnect with a lost cultural identity
In a series of portraits and interviews, photographer Elinor Kry explores the ways in which a lack of fluency in language bolsters distance from ethnicity
Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in May
From perfectly-priced, almost-perfectly-hued paint to a profile of the Neil Diamond of Nintendo, our team shares the very best of what we consumed this month
For Balenciaga, life is a runway—and should be treated as such
The house displayed its Spring 2024 collection in a slice-of-life performance, imagining a world where everyone is adorned head-to-toe in its designs
