50 years on, Diptyque celebrates the art of the genderless fragrance
Long before the iconic CK One and the age of gender fluidity, the French perfumer thought that a scent should be like a work of...
Raf Simons gives it the college try in Calvin Klein 205W39NYC’s pre-spring collection
Raf Simons played with the bright hues and nostalgic associations of America's sunniest university, the University of California, in his latest collection for Calvin Klein.
Researchers think millennial pink might be the oldest color known to man
Before Tumblr, Instagram, and mankind itself—there was pink, floating in Earth's primordial ooze.
On its 150th birthday, couture is alive, thriving and vital
Embellished, exotic, and exclusive as ever, couture celebrated a century and half of turning heads during Paris Fashion Week.
With Amazon, buying Nazi children’s toys has never been easier
According to a new report by two watchdog groups, the e-commerce hub has become a handy resource for extremist children toys.
Vetements’s Spring 2019 collection told the story of Demna Gvasalia’s bared soul
A traumatic and violent youth served as an astonishing storyboard for the Georgian's latest collection.
A raid on an Italian artifact smuggling ring may have unlocked a vast forgery web
The recent bust of one of Italy's oldest organized crime rings may have 'convulsive' impacts on the scholarly world of artifacts and forgeries.
Young activists take UK government to court over failing to tackle climate change
After research suggests the younger generation will be facing the effects of climate change, activists in the UK are holding the government responsible.
Announcing The New Vanguard Finalists
Discover the five finalists and the winner of the Special Reportage Prize.
Anthony Kennedy’s retirement is about to shift the status quo
The future of the highest court in the land may take an even grimmer shift to the right.
Rick Owens questions the state of America
Smoke clouds, germ masks and black flags sent a clear message about the state of things in Rick Owen's men's spring 2019 runway collection.
Greenpeace gets into streetwear with its latest environmental message
The environmental advocacy group partners with Outlaw Moscow on a series of face masks to bring attention to air pollution in Russia.
That’s Dior Men not Dior ‘Homme’
Kim Jones' debut collection for the storied house at Paris Fashion Week was a bold announcement of the brand's latest iteration.
After the mall, comes a new kind of urban square
In a recent lecture on the future of retail, the historian and fashion writer Laura McLaws Helms took a closer look at the possibilities of...
Parks and wreck: New York City’s crumbling public infrastructure
A new body of research from the Center for an Urban Future paints a bleak picture for the state of the city's most treasured green...
Paul Hameline casts a glittered lens towards New York City
While getting ready for the Saint Laurent Men's Spring/Summer 2019 show, model Paul Hameline documents his day.
Why the 2018 World Cup is a game changer for Iranian women
Women from the religiously conservative nation are trekking to Russia to cheer on their home team from inside of a stadium for the first time...
Dockless bikes, the latest tech disruption, are ending up in volcanoes and trees
One was found at the bottom of New Zealand’s Mt. Eden volcano this past week.
OAMC imagines boundless futures in its Spring/Summer 2019 collection
Document went behind the scenes as the brand founded by creative director Luke Meier debuted its newest collection at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la...
The Kanye Effect
After years of collaborating with Kanye West, Virgil Abloh made a splash with Louis Vuitton Men's debut. How much of an impact does the music...
Of course Scott Pruitt’s EPA tried to kill a study about toxic chemicals in our groundwater
According to a new study released by an agency not under the EPA administrator's hapless thumb, a highly-toxic compound has been discovered in over 1,500...
Virgil Abloh’s Louis Vuitton debut is for everyone with a mind to dream
In his first collection for Louis Vuitton Men's, Virgil Abloh announced with color, and confidence, a new era for those who dream of a better...
New York’s tepid slog towards legalizing marijuana is killing our vibe
While state-wide legalization of weed seems inevitable, recent announcements on drug enforcement policies by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio are as tepid...
Why is fashion in such a Georgian state of mind?
Did the "Demna Effect" cause the fashion world to put an international spotlight on Georgia?
The 68.5 million people running from war and crisis globally is now the highest on record
According to the latest report by the U.N.'s Refugee Agency, every two seconds a person is displaced somewhere on the planet.
Mammals are increasingly going about their lives in the dark to get away from humans
Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley monitored 62 different species and discovered that all had drastically shifted their routines just to get away...
We have Donatella Versace to thank for the new sensual men of fashion
The impenetrable designer spoke with Document about the new era of trendsetting and the rise of sensual menswear.
This is how Juergen Teller handles his football fanaticism
The vibrant photographer reveals his maniacal love of football just in time for the 2018 World Cup with a new exhibition at the Garage Museum...
Paul Surridge goes wild for his first Cavalli men’s collection
For Paul Surridge’s debut at Cavalli, time was the ultimate luxury on display.
Out of the zen-like garden, Birkenstock shows its youth at Pitti Uomo
The German heritage footwear brand unveiled a number of fresh styles during its Italian menswear show.
Movement becomes fashion in COS’s Pitti Uomo debut
The London-based minimal brand marked Christophe Copin’s debut through a performance choreographed by Wayne McGregor.
Z Zegna’s latest collection pays service to fashion’s love of tennis
For its Spring / Summer 2019 collection, the Italian sportswear label took to the court at Pitti Uomo tapping Alexander Zverev to be the face...
James Welling on his photo ‘1538’
“The challenge is to create something I haven't seen before."
Hunting for Kit Kats in Japan
One writer discovers that a mission to find every last of the whacky, weird Kit Kat flavors native to Japan can easily become an unstoppable...
Martine Rose is designing for the ‘dodgy’ man of her dreams, one piece at a time
Ahead of her Spring / Summer 2019 collection, Document met up with the London-born designer to discuss intuition, music, and the unpredictable, flashy, always dodgy,...
Goethe goes to the museum
A new group show opening at Sammlung Friedrichshof and Stadtraum in Austria this week uses Goethe's 1809 novel Elective Affinities to examine space of human relationships.
Facing the future with some of activism’s newest faces
Thousands of teens from across the country descended upon #TurnUp, an activism summit hosted by The New School this past weekend to make clear that...
After posing for the $5.2 million George Condo, Natalie White is now her own muse
The photographer has sat for George Condo, Michael Dweck, Peter Beard and more, but now, she's decided to become her own subject.
Protection finds its equal in pleasure at PS1’s ‘Body Armor’
A new exhibit at MoMA's PS1 takes a nuanced look at how women convey power, desirability, and rebellion through garments worn and objects wielded.
After dropping ‘don’t be evil,’ Google looks for new words to justify its military projects
As reports of the company's participation in a military drone project set off an internal and public image scandal, Google is hoping that new ethical...
Saint Laurent Men’s Spring/Summer 2019 livestream
See the full collection, live from New York City June 6th at 9PM EST.
We need to do something about the plastic problem
A new report by the U.N.'s Environmental Program warns that unless action is taken that by 2050 there could be more plastic in our seas...
Millennial men are going to new extremes to reach their fitness goals
A new survey claims that over 90 percent of millennial males have altered their lifestyle in a bid for a buff body in what could...
‘Fashion Unraveled’ reflects on the repurposed, the distressed, and the deconstructed
On view through November at the Museum at FIT, ‘Fashion Unraveled’ looks at imperfections in fashion history from Maison Martin Margiela to Comme des Garçons.
Europe’s new data protection laws are a confusing mess that might change the world for better
The European Union's new data privacy rule, which went into effect last week, is the reason your inbox has been a mess for the last...
Social modesty is behavioral science’s latest obsession
They've even coined a term, "signal-burying," to explain why humans opt to play down their interests and good deeds.
Britain’s war on drill music is a grand effort to ignore the failures of austerity
The Metropolitan Gang Unit has banned over 30 drill videos from Youtube in recent weeks after deciding the popular genre is the lone root of...
Tomas Maier on the ‘raw, simple, and emotional’ works of Donald Judd
We asked the Bottega Veneta creative director about his fascination with the legendary sculptor, whose aluminum works are on display this summer at the Judd...
One of Russia’s masterpiece paintings was attacked with a metal pole
You could say Vodka and an increased inability to differentiate historical fact with artistic license had something to do with the art assault on a...
