Best in show: Couture Week Spring 2024
Document Journal rounds up the standout couture collections from a week in Paris
Ottessa Moshfegh writes not what we asked for, but what we need
Excavating the dark side of human nature, the author invites readers to find divinity in depravity
Daytripping: Vibe editor
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark passes the mic to Shawn Dickerson, to talk 40 years on the New York nightlife circuit
Best in show: Men’s Fall/Winter 2024 Fashion Week—Paris
Document Journal rounds up the week’s standout menswear collections from the French fashion capital
Erin Grant celebrates her New York premiere with a night of cinematic illusions
The actor and directer spotlights genre-bending shorts from New York filmmakers featuring Illuminati P.I.s, a fallen angel, and a not-so-magic rodent
A glimpse through Frederick Wiseman’s enduring lens
Upon the release of his 44th documentary ‘Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros,’ Document curates a list of the filmmaker’s most provocative portraits
Best in show: Men’s Fall/Winter 2024 Fashion Week—Milan
Upon touching down in the Italian fashion capital, Document Journal rounds up the week’s standout menswear collections
Doni Nahmias brings archive-driven design to the NHL
The menswear designer’s newest collaboration with the Arizona Coyotes is proof that hockey is street style’s next sporty obsession
Beach Fossils frontman Dustin Payseur shares the songs that carried him through tour
In a playlist curated for Document, the musician captures the highs and lows of life on the road
The Shoptimist: What it is, what it was, what it should cost
In her monthly column for Document, Maya Kotomori evaluates the future of subscription services through a luxury lens
Daytripping: Conventions of Care
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark experiences two very different kinds of dance culture
An American in Paris: Casey Cadwallader’s Mugler
The French label’s creative director blends rigorous construction and sex appeal for the next generation
50 years at church with the Poetry Project
Whitney Mallett reports on the East Village institution’s 12-hour marathon variety show of unhinged spoken word, absurdist musical sets, and unsettling dance numbers
Daytripping: Christmas for pagans
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark finds the pagan spirit of the season.
‘The Iron Claw’ goes for the emotional jugular
Sean Durkin’s third film renders the Von Erich wrestling family as a American tragedy
On heaven, hell, and nothingness in Miami Beach
A dispatch from Art Basel fielding questions of protest, spectacle, and frivolity through a quote by Slavoj Žižek
As the world burns, gift guides proliferate
For the holiday season, tastemakers dispense a potent fantasy: the fleeting escapism of finding the perfect present
Lauren Elkin’s ‘Art Monsters’ thrives in the messy
The author’s latest book profiles the great and grimy women of the last century
Taking stock in Stockholm, fashion’s nexus for the future
A dispatch from [Fashion X], an event launched by the Swedish Fashion Council to address issues of economic and environmental sustainability
Choreographer Ligia Lewis transforms CARA into a theater of concepts
Currently on view, ‘study now steady’ is a foray into the relationship between audience and performer, told through a Black feminist lens
(LA)HORDE challenges the canon of concert dance
Combining ballet and rave culture, the collective gives traditional choreography a much-needed update
‘Gratuity Included’ feasts on the experimental
At the film’s second screening, director and fine artist Paulina Freifeld left audiences at KGB’s theater with one cheeky question: what’s for dinner?
‘Virtual Volume’ makes space a thought experiment
Curated by Patrick R. Crowley, the sculpture show uses relief as a springboard into the many perspectives of the three-dimensional
For London’s newest class of designers, performance and wearability go hand in hand
Documents asks 12 recent fashion graduates about borrowed inspirations, sustainable aspirations, and their city’s many haunts
Bar Italia wonders about its sound, too
The London-based trio sit down with Document to discuss their meteoric rise, songwriting process, and the ‘je ne sais quois’ of fame
The perennial reinvention of Oneohtrix Point Never
Daniel Lopatin on the idiosyncrasies of his creative process, the life cycle of counterculture, and how he remains enchanted with art
Eli Payne Mandel’s infinite levity in ‘The Grid’
In his first book, the psychoanalyst-in-training reimagines history’s many apocalypses through lost languages, letters from exile, and dead painters
Elliot Reed’s writing on the wall
The cross-medium artist turns the body politic inside out in ‘Union,’ currently on view at Anonymous Gallery
Eduard Sánchez Ribot makes magic of the mundane
In an exclusive photo diary for Document, the photographer captures the quotidian beauty of his trip through South Korea
Olympia Le-Tan takes high fashion to the ring with Sukeban
A cross between drag, performance art, and wrestling, the all-women’s league combines high concept costuming with high-flying stunts
Erica Deeman’s required reading for environmental hope
The artist shares a list of books, compiled during her fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts, that helped inspire her latest exhibition, ‘Climate Futurism,’...
Robert Storr’s ‘Retinal Hysteria’ renders calamity artistic
The curator's current exhibition reflects on Christian Braum’s early naughties ‘Eye Infection’ with a wink, and a nod to our contemporary moment
The people’s history of the internet, according to Taylor Lorenz
The tech journalist and author on the algorithmic American dream, the unsung heroes of social media, and her new book ‘Extremely Online’
Balenciaga’s L.A., confidential
From the streets of Hancock Park, creative director Demna provides his own unique take on Los Angeles’s many archetypes
Into the Pradasphere, where fashion and fiction collide
Housed within Shanghai’s Start Museum, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’s Pradasphere II explores the iconic Milanese brand’s past and projects its future
Solange continues to examine intimacy in transition through portraiture series
In her second installment with Document, the artist shares snapshots from the past three years taken by photographers Raphael Rios, Kobe Wagstaff, and Courtney Yates
Sowing the seeds of the underground with Katie Rex and Fecal Matter
The nightlife luminary and design duo join Document to discuss fantasy, fetish, and the liberatory power of the club
With its new ‘Athletics’ line, Fear of God curates its own mystique
The brand’s recent Adidas collaboration combines the ease of athleisure with the singularity of nature
Samuel de Saboia navigates chaos on canvas
The Brazilian painter discusses what’s on the horizon following his recent exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery
A guide to the discomfiting films of Todd Haynes
Upon the release of May-December, Document curates of list of his most sumptuous, unsettling films
The Shoptimist: A deliberation on object permanence in the Desert Hills Premium Outlets
In her monthly column for Document, writer and fashion theory knave Maya Kotomori finds age 25 while Black Friday buying
Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in November
From cult documentaries to vegan hair care to British cuisine, our team shares the very best of what we consumed this month
‘Lavender Deal’ summons love in the time of COVID
Niko Hallikainen’s sprawling performance poem reflects on heartache over synth and across countries for the Performa Biennial
Bobby Doherty equates the mundane with the remarkable
Upon the release of ‘Dream About Nothing,’ the photographer joins Document to unpack his methodology
Molly Crabapple’s world of art and action
The artist returns to her roots with ‘The Chair Series,’ an intimate meditation on human connection amidst political upheaval
In the Skateroom with Michèle Lamy and Charles-Antoine Bodson
The creative multihyphenate isn’t afraid to show teeth across an exclusive collection of art decks, shot by Jeurgen Teller
Between love, hate, and richesse, ‘Saltburn’ boils over
In a web of cinephilic homages, Emerald Fennell’s sophomore feature spins a half-baked tale of lust and ambition
Something Special Studios’s cool, cool summer
The creative agency’s fifth annual photo book ‘Summer of Something Special’ presents a visual diary of the world’s favorite season
Rainy Miller and Space Afrika chase silver linings
The artists’ joint record ‘A Grisaille Wedding’ is guided by mutual trust, North West heritage, and a quick-on-the-draw spirit
