Inside the atelier: Document visits the London studio of Ports 1961
Document's Alice Lefons sat down with Ports 1961 creative director Nataša Čagalj ahead of London Fashion Week to discuss the brand's heritage, present, and future.
Damien Hirst’s secondary market is a “bloodbath”
Of the 19 original lots from Damien Hirst's record-breaking 2008 Sotheby's sale, 17 have depreciated, adding up to a total loss of almost $3 million.
The New York Fashion Week report: Model diversity on the rise, school is in session, and leopard love
Document went inside New York Fashion Week to observe the trends on the runway, from statements of inclusivity to updated versions of classic silhouettes.
Luar’s Angels: Raul Lopez’s renaissance-inspired collection
Filmmaker Derek Anthony Welte goes backstage at CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist Raul Lopez's Spring/Summer 2019 show.
Making it rain dollar bills could make you a terrorist in Turkey
Turkish pop star Matiz is under investigation for terrorism after he threw a single stack of dollar bills in the air in a music video.
I went back to school on Vaquera’s Spring/Summer 2019 runway
Document US fashion editor Shawn Lakin describes her moment as a model for Vaquera's high school-themed Spring/Summer 2019 show.
Rising entrepreneurial star in China turns out to be social media catfish
A middle school student is behind the identity of Shi Runlong, an alleged entrepreneur whose Weibo account was full of photos of global dignitaries.
Raf Simons recalls Jaws and The Graduate for Calvin Klein 205W39NYC Spring/Summer 2019
Calvin Klein 205W38NYC chief creative officer Raf Simons pays homage to opposing themes in “Jaws” and “The Graduate” during New York Fashion Week.
Trump dips in the polls as his job growth promises come through for barristers and bartenders
Across an 18-month period, from Jan 2017 to June 2018, jobs in the food and drink sector grew by 5.6 percent.
Fashion as fantasy: Julian Louie figured out how to wear an entire collection at once
The artist and fashion designer collaged together all the looks from Louis Vuitton's and Dior's mens' Spring/Summer 2019 collections exclusively for Document Online.
Russia continues to crackdown on dissent
Two members of Pussy Riot were detained by police in Moscow, as a music industry insider revealed he was paid $30,000 to start a rap...
Meet New Pandemics, the modeling agency that’s looking to bring queer visibility to the forefront
Janette Beckman photographed New Pandemics Spring/Summer 2019 show package, revealed exclusively on Document Online.
Telfar’s ‘post-identity’ aesthetic emerges on an East River helipad
A little rain couldn't bring down the energy at Telfar Clemens's performance-filled Spring/Summer 2019 show.
Eckhaus Latta brings its inner circle to Bushwick for Spring/Summer 2019
Document takes a look at Eckhaus Latta's Spring/Summer 2019 collection, presented with the sounds of a baby orchestra.
London Fashion Week goes fur free
The British Fashion Council announced that this September’s London Fashion Week will not have any animal fur on the runway.
Browns finds its kindred spirit in Fred Segal
The fabled London retailer partnered with iconic Los Angeles fashion destination Fred Segal for a pop-up shop featuring a number of emerging designers.
Russian scientists speed up the internet
A group of Russian scientists, in partnership with an American university, created an algorithm that can increase internet speeds by one-and-a-half times.
Artist Luke Turner withdraws from Athens Biennale over heated Twitter fiasco
The co-founder of the #HeWillNotDivideUs roaming art project got into an intense Twitter battle with artist Daniel Keller, who defended artist Deanna Havas liking a...
Recalling the big hair and even bigger personalities of Wigstock
Linda Simpson, John Kelly, Lypsinka, and Peter Zaremba of The Fleshtones reminisce about their fondest moments of the annual New York drag celebration.
London Design Fair names plastic its Material of the Year
Select designers will tackle plastic, which is lauded for its durability but condemned due to it's pollutant nature, at the London Design Fair.
Global warming causes insects to eat more crops
A new paper discovered that global warming is causing the metabolic rates of insects to rocket, resulting in yet more crop devastation.
Detroit public schools bring in bottled water to combat contamination
Detroit officials say the city's water supply is okay, and that they think the problem stems with the schools' aging infrastructure.
What does AI-generated art look like?
An exhibition at Nature Morte in New Dehli showcases the artwork generated not by human hand, but by artificial intelligence.
Shanel Campbell is on the verge
Even though she only just recently graduated from Parsons, Solange and Issa Rae are already among the fashion designer's celebrity admirers.
Hermès and Pierre Charpin join forces for La Serpentine
The French designer and artist collaborated with Hermès to create window displays, scarves, and tabletop items.
Who is Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky?
Google celebrates the 155th birthday of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, the Russian photographer and chemist who documented the Russian Empire.
How Hungary’s far-right government is curtailing culture
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban’s far-right party has banned skyscrapers, wants to withdraw funding for gender studies from a university, and even criticized a Frida Kahlo...
Looking back at the ‘Beautiful Losers’
A new exhibition at The Hole celebrates the 10th anniversary of the documentary Beautiful Losers, which celebrated the 'broke artists' of New York's downtown scene...
Not just relegated to politics, Russian bots are now undermining vaccines
A new piece of research from George Washington University shows that social media bots and Russian trolls have also been used to spread false information...
And now, a geographic breakdown of America’s sexism
A new survey on sexist attitudes across the U.S. analyzes misogyny's economic toll.
One artist brings the Acne Studios Manhattan Sneaker on a journey through the ’90s
"Shoes are the first thing I look at when meeting someone."
UNC students are making history, not erasing it, after toppling Confederate monument
This week, students at the University of North Carolina toppled Silent Sam, a Confederate statue that has stood since 1913.
An authentic look at people with their very own Birkenstocks
The brand tapped Jack Davison to shoot Ryan McGinley, Thomas Südhof, Romany Pajdak and more with their beloved Birkenstocks.
France wants to end snobbery, democratize culture, through multimillion-dollar app
The $496-million-a-year plan will target 10,000 18-year-olds, giving them €500 ($577) in credit to spend in the app.
Rapper Killer Mike is the newest board member of Atlanta’s High Museum
The rapper and social activist is one of three fresh faces shaking things up at the High Museum of Art.
Nudists flock the Palais de Tokyo
One of Paris’s most prestigious contemporary art collections opened its doors for the first time to a very marginalized group of culture lovers.
Do something different: Telfar and FAKA bring fashion and music to the Serpentine Pavilion
South African performance art duo FAKA unleashed a soulful performance at Serpentine Galleries in Telfar's spring 2019 collection.
Science attempts to explain why the rich and powerful often behave like swine
Cheating, stealing, lying, and environmental disrespect are habits shared most exclusively to the wealthiest social groups, according to new research.
The UK’s visa problems are crippling the country’s cultural scene
Tightening immigration restrictions for artists seeking to enter the UK are affecting racial and religious minorities.
The photographer who made the biggest names of the 20th century beautiful
Portraits of Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Emperor Charles I of Austria taken by Dora Kallmus, or d’Ora, are the subject of an exhibition at...
Vegans be wary: A plant-based diet won’t be viable in the future
Researchers from six American universities discovered that a future of living solely off the land isn’t the most efficient way of farming.
Belgium fights back against Facebook’s problem with Old Master nudes
The Flemish Tourism Board created a video in response to Facebook censoring nude works by Paul Rubens from the Maison de Rubens in Antwerp.
Harley Weir directs a new A.P.C. film starring it-model Paul Hameline
Are the words uttered by models-cum-actors Hameline, Sohyun Jung and Aida Blue in Harley Weir's A.P.C. film a Lettrist poem or random musings?
Watch Document dance with lifestyle label 69 through its new exhibition at MOCA Los Angeles
With an anonymous designer at the helm, non-gender, non-demographic label 69 resolves its own identity crisis in a show at the L.A. museum.
Eckhaus Latta tests the boundaries between fashion, art and commerce at The Whitney
Eckhaus Latta, the cult fashion label by Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta, is the subject of The Whitney's first fashion-focused exhibition since 1997.
Ai Weiwei’s studio demolished in wave of destruction against Beijing’s contemporary art community
Beijing authorities destroyed Ai Weiwei's studio without warning last Friday, three years after the artist relocated from China to Berlin.
The case for a museum director who isn’t white or male
Did the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles make the right decision in appointing Klaus Biesenbach as its new director?
Project depicting names of drowned refugees mysteriously disappears from Liverpool Biennial
The List by Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu has not been seen since last Saturday when it was removed from a new development in Liverpool’s Chinatown.
Why is our criminal justice system still failing to help the LGBT community?
A study at the University of California at San Francisco discovered that sexual minority offenders are more likely to get stuck in the system.
