Fashion Kiernan Francis’s ‘Champions’ reimagines interior life The filmmaker visits his family’s Chicago home, presenting an architectural vision of victory with local designers
Fashion ECCO.kollektive marks its fifth season with a collaboration with Louis-Gabriel Nouchi The Danish brand expands its fashion innovation program with an exclusive line of fine leather goods by the French designer
Fashion The intimacy of beauty with Holli Smith and Pony Rivers For Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, the hairstylist and longtime contributor transforms her partner into an array of characters for his fashion debut accompanied by a...
Literature Desiring literature with Nate Lippens and Kate Zambreno Following Semiotext(e)‘s release of Lippens’s ‘Ripcord’ and ‘My Dead Book,’ the authors trace consciousnesses of queerness and class through both novels and friendships
Italian-made footwear by Scarosso meets American prep by Brooks Brothers in Florence In the city’s 13th-century Palazzo Vecchio, the brands unveil an accessible-yet-opulent capsule collection by Document Journal 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 by Katharine K. Zarrella For five decades, Mira Schor has blended concept and image Following major solo exhibitions in New York and Paris, the artist joins Document to discuss language, legacy, and the ‘thingness’ of painting by Drew Zeiba Wedding veils, pan flutes, and the perfect day for a picnic A deep dive into ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock,’ the 1975 cult film that inspired everyone from Chloë Sevigny to Alexander McQueen and redefined Australian cinema by Elroy Rosenberg Ladyland Festival is Pride in a musical microcosm Document goes backstage with the Brooklyn event’s queer icons, including Tinashe, Tokischa, Bob the Drag Queen, and many more by Katie Rex Larry Gus’s ‘Kerkis (Judas Tree)’ is playing games The musician collaborates with director Matvey Fiks and screenwriter, lyricist, and Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator Efthymis Filippou in this absurdist romp through an Athenian chess club by Maya Kotomori Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Paris Document rounds up the top new collections shown this past week in Paris by Maya Kotomori Steven Cuffie’s relational image-making A new zine and exhibition provide a glimpse into the rich archive of intimate portraits by the late photographer by Drew Zeiba Is a socialite just a scammer who succeeded? In an interview with Harron Walker, the author Shola von Reinhold discusses the fabulosity of fabulation and whether some stories should be allowed to disappear by Harron Walker In ‘Queendom,’ authenticity is resistance Agniia Galdanova’s documentary showcases art’s radical potential by following Russian performance artist Jenna Marvin by Katie Rex Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba traverses New York City in search of performances beyond the page by Drew Zeiba Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Milan Document rounds up the top new collections shown this past week in Milan by Maya Kotomori Even undead, Joan Didion won’t back down In this AI-facilitated conversation, ‘Mean Boys’ author Geoffrey Mak talks to the late essayist about addiction, critical audacity, and American literature’s CIA roots by Geoffrey Mak The Shoptimist: It ain’t the same now In a Juneteenth special of her monthly column, hotep-in-training Maya Kotomori puts on her Dr. Umar kufi to analyze the commodity fetish of hip-hop by Maya Kotomori Moncler Genius announces immersive new project for Shanghai Fashion Week The brand promises a boundary-pushing experience to close out the season this October by Document Journal Extreme Cashmere won’t compromise on making the perfect knit Document visits the luxury knitwear label’s founder Saskia Dijkstra and brand director Wies Verhoofstad in their 17th-century Amsterdam HQ by Ashley Simpson Ben Werther asks if LARPing is the new readymade War-zone fantasies meet suburban poetics in ‘When You Can No Longer Speak, Sing Me a Song,’ the artist’s solo exhibition at No Gallery by Morgan Meier Montreal-based label Skip Fame turns a former bank building into a ghostly performance space In ‘Won / One / Whah Gwan’ Brandon Lajoie and Gregory Miller stage a hybrid runway show without beginning or end by Drew Zeiba In the experimental play ‘4,000 Dollars,’ the streets of New York City are a fiscal fight club Document joins playwright and director Georgica Pettus and producer Ashby Bland to discuss the art of numbers, spending money, and language systems by Maya Kotomori Funto Omojola’s cosmological reckonings Hair, plastic, clay, and pictures come together to challenge conceptions of illness and image at the artist and poet’s photography installation at A.I.R. Gallery by Drew Zeiba Bela Borsodi’s ‘Birth Life Death’ invents new dynamics for inanimate objects On view at The Corner Gallery in upstate New York, the photographer’s mischievous exhibition creates existential language from the everyday by Nick Vogelson Jennifer Rochlin and Jennifer Guidi keep each other curious On the occasion of Rochlin’s exhibition ‘Paintings on Clay’ at Hauser and Wirth, the two artists talk about friendship, collaboration, and the potency of nature by Drew Zeiba Seeing the unseen in the work of Vivian Maier Kering Group’s Women in Motion initiative hosted a glitzy and cerebral celebration of the renowned photographer at Fotografiska by Document Journal Dominic Leong knows aesthetics are politics The co-founder of the architecture firm Leong Leong discusses fashion, public space, land recovery, and design’s impact on bodies throughout history by Drew Zeiba Drew Ducote’s ‘Rednecks with Paychecks’ showcases the torque of Texas’s underground motorist community The New York-based artist mines the mud-slicked culture of his native Lone Star State in this photo story dedicated to the eponymous collective of offroaders by Elroy Rosenberg The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick’ Currently on view at Lyles and King, the sculptor’s latest show references everything from fox spirits to early 17th-century bridles in an installation as ethereal... by Grace Byron Sónar by Day, according to curators Antònia Folguera and Ikram Bouloum Meet the pair responsible for Sónar Festival’s daytime multidisciplinary programming ahead of the annual Barcelona electronic music festival by Maya Kotomori Announcing Yadim, Document Journal’s Beauty Director The boundary-pushing makeup artist sits down with Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson to discuss the the real-life inspiration behind his practice and the hopeful future of the... by Nick Vogelson Inside Franciacorta, Italy’s next bubbly vinicultural destination Translating directly to ‘short France,’ the bucolic region’s complex sparkling wines highlight cultural and climactic change by Colin Boyle Stacy Skolnik’s genre-bending ‘The Ginny Suite’ is an experiment in post-pandemic poetics The writer discusses her dissociative debut novel’s speculative journey through sex, sickness, and literary form by Drew Zeiba Zegna Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and actor Mads Mikkelsen imagine new narratives of creative responsibility During Shanghai’s Villa Zegna event, the pair sit down with Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson to talk about fashion’s role in the cultural and natural worlds by Nick Vogelson Fine Print: In the labyrinth of the no In his monthly column, Drew Zeiba considers the creative merits of giving up through tales of defiant scriveners, starving artists, and painters fluent in refusal by Drew Zeiba Elisabetta Zangrandi creates her own art-historical canon The Italian painter’s latest solo exhibition ‘Musée Imaginaire’ looks to past generations of women artists to stage a new present by Camille Sojit Pejcha Inside the New York Live Arts 2024 gala Artists were front and center at the institution’s annual Live Ideas fundraising event, centered on the role of creativity in shaping our collective future by Maya Kotomori Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon find inspiration at the DMV In the art-design duo’s studio, references to bodies and buildings meet unexpected material experimentation by Drew Zeiba Lucila Safdie takes a blogger-era approach to the modern woman The designer sits down with Document to discuss the films, time periods, and nuanced female characters that inspire her clothing by Maya Kotomori Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona The artist and filmmaker joins Whitney Mallett, founding editor of ‘The Whitney Review’ to discuss the artifice of authorship through her alter-ego Val by Whitney Mallett Gab Bois’s second drop with ‘Canapés’ is a citrusy welcome to spring The artist’s latest release from her ready-to-wear collection features a deceptively real clementine heel, drawing on the fruit’s multitude of meanings by Will Allstetter Charlotte Day Wilson’s shades of blue The musician discusses queer identity and moving through grief for her latest album, ‘Cyan Blue’ by Sabina Latifovic Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale The multimedia artist transforms the Swiss Pavilion into a dark and glitzy critique of Switzerland’s self-conjured mythology by Alice Bucknell Saint Laurent cinematic connection comes full circle in Cannes For the Festival’s 2024 edition, the luxury house-turned-production studio is realizing Anthony Vaccarello’s expansive ambitions on the silver screen by Elroy Rosenberg For Tyler Matthew Oyer, queerness is a cosmic dance In their performance ‘Venus 2.0,’ the LA-based interdisciplinary artist explores the relationship between the body, raving, and outer space by Colin Boyle Inside BoND, the New York architecture and interiors office reshaping the art world and beyond Design duo Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger marry form with fantasy in striking spaces by Eric Schwartau Silence sizzles in ‘Tiptoeing Through the Kitchen’, Luhring Augustine’s latest group show The exhibition delves into the mysteries and emotions buried beneath the surface of a photograph by Minh Le Dreaming alongside Sega Bodega The DJ-producer explores a melodic world between sleeping and waking, probing the unconscious mind on his third album ‘Dennis’ by Will Allstetter Rhizome throws annual gala afterparty in collaboration with NYC-based performance series 29 Speedway Crushed watermelon, slime, and a visceral puppet show turn the postgame of this year’s fundraising gala into an immersive stage for experimental performance by Maya Kotomori Taking care with the weird, wild, and political literatures of Hard to Read In memoriam of storyteller Cecilia Gentili, the co-organizers reflect on their winter conversations program which united writers and activists to discuss our political moment by Hard to Read Club Document: Celebrating SS24 with Erykah Badu, Michèle Lamy, and Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson Inside our Issue 24 launch party featuring hot guests and even hotter DJ sets by Document Journal Music-made memories, from the mind of C.FRIM Ahead of her appearance at Barcelona’s Sónar Festival, the Melbourne-based DJ curates an eclectic track list born out of sonic remembering by Minh Le At Pageant’s second annual gala, experimental performance reigns supreme This year’s fundraising event for the artist-run space features footlong high heels, whipped cream-spewing bras, and live tattoos by Maya Kotomori
Italian-made footwear by Scarosso meets American prep by Brooks Brothers in Florence In the city’s 13th-century Palazzo Vecchio, the brands unveil an accessible-yet-opulent capsule collection by Document Journal
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 by Katharine K. Zarrella
For five decades, Mira Schor has blended concept and image Following major solo exhibitions in New York and Paris, the artist joins Document to discuss language, legacy, and the ‘thingness’ of painting by Drew Zeiba
Wedding veils, pan flutes, and the perfect day for a picnic A deep dive into ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock,’ the 1975 cult film that inspired everyone from Chloë Sevigny to Alexander McQueen and redefined Australian cinema by Elroy Rosenberg
Ladyland Festival is Pride in a musical microcosm Document goes backstage with the Brooklyn event’s queer icons, including Tinashe, Tokischa, Bob the Drag Queen, and many more by Katie Rex
Larry Gus’s ‘Kerkis (Judas Tree)’ is playing games The musician collaborates with director Matvey Fiks and screenwriter, lyricist, and Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator Efthymis Filippou in this absurdist romp through an Athenian chess club by Maya Kotomori
Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Paris Document rounds up the top new collections shown this past week in Paris by Maya Kotomori
Steven Cuffie’s relational image-making A new zine and exhibition provide a glimpse into the rich archive of intimate portraits by the late photographer by Drew Zeiba
Is a socialite just a scammer who succeeded? In an interview with Harron Walker, the author Shola von Reinhold discusses the fabulosity of fabulation and whether some stories should be allowed to disappear by Harron Walker
In ‘Queendom,’ authenticity is resistance Agniia Galdanova’s documentary showcases art’s radical potential by following Russian performance artist Jenna Marvin by Katie Rex
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba traverses New York City in search of performances beyond the page by Drew Zeiba
Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Milan Document rounds up the top new collections shown this past week in Milan by Maya Kotomori
Even undead, Joan Didion won’t back down In this AI-facilitated conversation, ‘Mean Boys’ author Geoffrey Mak talks to the late essayist about addiction, critical audacity, and American literature’s CIA roots by Geoffrey Mak
The Shoptimist: It ain’t the same now In a Juneteenth special of her monthly column, hotep-in-training Maya Kotomori puts on her Dr. Umar kufi to analyze the commodity fetish of hip-hop by Maya Kotomori
Moncler Genius announces immersive new project for Shanghai Fashion Week The brand promises a boundary-pushing experience to close out the season this October by Document Journal
Extreme Cashmere won’t compromise on making the perfect knit Document visits the luxury knitwear label’s founder Saskia Dijkstra and brand director Wies Verhoofstad in their 17th-century Amsterdam HQ by Ashley Simpson
Ben Werther asks if LARPing is the new readymade War-zone fantasies meet suburban poetics in ‘When You Can No Longer Speak, Sing Me a Song,’ the artist’s solo exhibition at No Gallery by Morgan Meier
Montreal-based label Skip Fame turns a former bank building into a ghostly performance space In ‘Won / One / Whah Gwan’ Brandon Lajoie and Gregory Miller stage a hybrid runway show without beginning or end by Drew Zeiba
In the experimental play ‘4,000 Dollars,’ the streets of New York City are a fiscal fight club Document joins playwright and director Georgica Pettus and producer Ashby Bland to discuss the art of numbers, spending money, and language systems by Maya Kotomori
Funto Omojola’s cosmological reckonings Hair, plastic, clay, and pictures come together to challenge conceptions of illness and image at the artist and poet’s photography installation at A.I.R. Gallery by Drew Zeiba
Bela Borsodi’s ‘Birth Life Death’ invents new dynamics for inanimate objects On view at The Corner Gallery in upstate New York, the photographer’s mischievous exhibition creates existential language from the everyday by Nick Vogelson
Jennifer Rochlin and Jennifer Guidi keep each other curious On the occasion of Rochlin’s exhibition ‘Paintings on Clay’ at Hauser and Wirth, the two artists talk about friendship, collaboration, and the potency of nature by Drew Zeiba
Seeing the unseen in the work of Vivian Maier Kering Group’s Women in Motion initiative hosted a glitzy and cerebral celebration of the renowned photographer at Fotografiska by Document Journal
Dominic Leong knows aesthetics are politics The co-founder of the architecture firm Leong Leong discusses fashion, public space, land recovery, and design’s impact on bodies throughout history by Drew Zeiba
Drew Ducote’s ‘Rednecks with Paychecks’ showcases the torque of Texas’s underground motorist community The New York-based artist mines the mud-slicked culture of his native Lone Star State in this photo story dedicated to the eponymous collective of offroaders by Elroy Rosenberg
The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick’ Currently on view at Lyles and King, the sculptor’s latest show references everything from fox spirits to early 17th-century bridles in an installation as ethereal... by Grace Byron
Sónar by Day, according to curators Antònia Folguera and Ikram Bouloum Meet the pair responsible for Sónar Festival’s daytime multidisciplinary programming ahead of the annual Barcelona electronic music festival by Maya Kotomori
Announcing Yadim, Document Journal’s Beauty Director The boundary-pushing makeup artist sits down with Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson to discuss the the real-life inspiration behind his practice and the hopeful future of the... by Nick Vogelson
Inside Franciacorta, Italy’s next bubbly vinicultural destination Translating directly to ‘short France,’ the bucolic region’s complex sparkling wines highlight cultural and climactic change by Colin Boyle
Stacy Skolnik’s genre-bending ‘The Ginny Suite’ is an experiment in post-pandemic poetics The writer discusses her dissociative debut novel’s speculative journey through sex, sickness, and literary form by Drew Zeiba
Zegna Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and actor Mads Mikkelsen imagine new narratives of creative responsibility During Shanghai’s Villa Zegna event, the pair sit down with Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson to talk about fashion’s role in the cultural and natural worlds by Nick Vogelson
Fine Print: In the labyrinth of the no In his monthly column, Drew Zeiba considers the creative merits of giving up through tales of defiant scriveners, starving artists, and painters fluent in refusal by Drew Zeiba
Elisabetta Zangrandi creates her own art-historical canon The Italian painter’s latest solo exhibition ‘Musée Imaginaire’ looks to past generations of women artists to stage a new present by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Inside the New York Live Arts 2024 gala Artists were front and center at the institution’s annual Live Ideas fundraising event, centered on the role of creativity in shaping our collective future by Maya Kotomori
Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon find inspiration at the DMV In the art-design duo’s studio, references to bodies and buildings meet unexpected material experimentation by Drew Zeiba
Lucila Safdie takes a blogger-era approach to the modern woman The designer sits down with Document to discuss the films, time periods, and nuanced female characters that inspire her clothing by Maya Kotomori
Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona The artist and filmmaker joins Whitney Mallett, founding editor of ‘The Whitney Review’ to discuss the artifice of authorship through her alter-ego Val by Whitney Mallett
Gab Bois’s second drop with ‘Canapés’ is a citrusy welcome to spring The artist’s latest release from her ready-to-wear collection features a deceptively real clementine heel, drawing on the fruit’s multitude of meanings by Will Allstetter
Charlotte Day Wilson’s shades of blue The musician discusses queer identity and moving through grief for her latest album, ‘Cyan Blue’ by Sabina Latifovic
Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale The multimedia artist transforms the Swiss Pavilion into a dark and glitzy critique of Switzerland’s self-conjured mythology by Alice Bucknell
Saint Laurent cinematic connection comes full circle in Cannes For the Festival’s 2024 edition, the luxury house-turned-production studio is realizing Anthony Vaccarello’s expansive ambitions on the silver screen by Elroy Rosenberg
For Tyler Matthew Oyer, queerness is a cosmic dance In their performance ‘Venus 2.0,’ the LA-based interdisciplinary artist explores the relationship between the body, raving, and outer space by Colin Boyle
Inside BoND, the New York architecture and interiors office reshaping the art world and beyond Design duo Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger marry form with fantasy in striking spaces by Eric Schwartau
Silence sizzles in ‘Tiptoeing Through the Kitchen’, Luhring Augustine’s latest group show The exhibition delves into the mysteries and emotions buried beneath the surface of a photograph by Minh Le
Dreaming alongside Sega Bodega The DJ-producer explores a melodic world between sleeping and waking, probing the unconscious mind on his third album ‘Dennis’ by Will Allstetter
Rhizome throws annual gala afterparty in collaboration with NYC-based performance series 29 Speedway Crushed watermelon, slime, and a visceral puppet show turn the postgame of this year’s fundraising gala into an immersive stage for experimental performance by Maya Kotomori
Taking care with the weird, wild, and political literatures of Hard to Read In memoriam of storyteller Cecilia Gentili, the co-organizers reflect on their winter conversations program which united writers and activists to discuss our political moment by Hard to Read
Club Document: Celebrating SS24 with Erykah Badu, Michèle Lamy, and Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson Inside our Issue 24 launch party featuring hot guests and even hotter DJ sets by Document Journal
Music-made memories, from the mind of C.FRIM Ahead of her appearance at Barcelona’s Sónar Festival, the Melbourne-based DJ curates an eclectic track list born out of sonic remembering by Minh Le
At Pageant’s second annual gala, experimental performance reigns supreme This year’s fundraising event for the artist-run space features footlong high heels, whipped cream-spewing bras, and live tattoos by Maya Kotomori