Music ‘Surviving the Dream’ with FIDLAR Document joined the indie rock band LA’s Balboa Recording Studio ahead of the release of their fourth album to talk about staying punk and growing...
Fashion Brioni’s La Donna explores new ground The Italian heritage house mixes embellishment and craftsmanship in its Spring / Summer collection
Art Experimental pop duo NEW YORK’s ‘rapstar*’ maintains an artful anonymity Following the release of their sophomore album, Gretchen Lawrence and Coumba Samba reflect on art, friendship, and their lo-fi influences
Art Maya Man and Sotce usher in a new generation of internet artists The pair sits down with Document to discuss their creative processes amidst the ever-changing climate of internet art
Above the Fold On the heels of the solstice, Hermès offers a skin-first introduction to the season ...over novelty. Her latest collection’s triumphant sensuality and effortless elegance are proof that her impressive tenure is no accident. Call it quiet luxury, if you... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold Pippa Garner and Gray Wielebinski construct modern mythologies ...as a US Army Combat Artist during the Vietnam War. Garner’s work continues to romance the commercial and the conceptual, fragmenting across nontraditional mediums—custom cars,... by Erin Ikeuchi Above the Fold Why Boxing: A literary, filmic, human argument for the ‘Noble Art’ ...too long after, he was jailed for 18 years for a robbery he didn’t commit. “Here comes the story of the Hurricane / The man... by Antonio Monda Above the Fold Under the umbrella of tradition, Issey Miyake innovates The grand hall of Paris’s Museé des Arts Décoratifs staged Issey Miyake’s latest Homme Plissé presentation. In the label’s customary fashion, the show was built... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Inside the Jeffries and Jonah Almost’s Outer Heaven soirée ...bags. (Guests carted home complimentary skin products from the genderless cosmetic disruptors.) Here, Document shares an inside look at the Pride party’s happenings, characterized by... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold The Broken Arm marks a 10-year legacy of radical and personal taste ...and some new ones are [introduced]. Guillaume: It’s common in shops if something doesn’t sell, they have to [replace it with] things that sell. It’s... by Colin Boyle Above the Fold ‘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... by Erik Morse Above the Fold The enduring impulse of Adam Goldberg ...which comes his way. “There’s no such thing as a steady job when you’re an independent contractor of any kind,” he says on his easy... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold For Tim Bernardes and Rodrigo Amarante, pleasure is the point ...mainstay in a new generation of Brazilian musicians—again proven in his latest album, Mil Coisas Invisíveis. Amarante’s resume is similarly weighted: His theme tune for... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Zegna marries the natural with the pragmatic ...all look quiet and luxurious,” said the designer, “but the tension in the details, the richness of colors, and the freedom to combine garments in... by Erin Ikeuchi Above the Fold A brief history of tweed, from the Scottish countryside to Karl Lagerfeld ...life. Its popularity is comparable to denim, but it communicates a legacy and a lifestyle that no other material can quite match. Tweed’s newfound affordability... by Meehika Barua Above the Fold The coronation of Charles Jeffrey Loverboy Last month, King Charles III was crowned at Westminster Abbey, marking Britain’s first new monarch in 70 years. Across the continent, in Milan, another Charles—Scottish... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold JW Anderson distorts domesticity for Spring/Summer 2024 ...of images Anderson drew from is familiar—yet his creations were anything but. With his latest collection, the master of craft has once again proved that... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold For Spring/Summer 2024, MSGM rests between the ethereal and the terrestrial Sogno Off Road, MSGM’s latest menswear collection, took shape against Tanzania’s boundless landscape. For Spring/Summer 2024, Massimo Giorgetti reflects on the space between the “ethereal... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold The queer performers keeping the Chelsea’s subversive legacy alive ...the hotel in stripped-down black-and-white. Shot using a large-format camera permanently stationed in his living room, the series is a timeless record of the people... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold In Daniel Arnold’s New York, everyone is God ...Megan: Something that feels consistent in your work—over the course of your career and across the commercial and personal—is the difficulty to place it in... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold ‘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... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold Jessica Stoya and Samantha Cole on sex, tech, and censorship ...in the adult industry, Stoya has written at length about the systemic biases against sex workers for such publications as the New York Times, the... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Charting manga and anime’s trans history, from the ’60s through today ...an unfortunate example of this problem. Their androgyny is often exploited for comedic effect, invasively interrogated by the rest of the cast via non-consensual groping.... by Gabriel Hernandez Above the Fold For Caterina Barbieri, a record is a photograph ...this common language that can bring people together and have empowering social effects. I feel I’m part of a certain tradition that is defined by... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold 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... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Tamo Jugeli lets the process lead her paintbrush ...why I already had savings to be in New York. Ann: How does New York compare to Tbilisi? Tamo: They have nothing in common. Ann:... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Geese’s booklist for finding nuance in nightmares ...the kind of existential nightmare he’s caught within—instead, he wishes to develop a complex system for sucking on rocks, or test a newspaper’s ability to... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Queerness is an ancient medicine ...queerness would erase itself altogether.” Queerness, and the collective community that comes with it, is healing. The care that comes with queerness—in its tenderness, its... by Kelsey Rhodes Above the Fold Daytripping: Embracing the barely-known ...I. Upon the depth of the air I am standing on. Where I am animal of the depth of air.” That rather complicates things. What’s... by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold Meet Rayne Fisher-Quann, the people’s (internet) princess ...think the best criticism comes not from hate, but from love. The example I have in mind is how you can shrug off comments from... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold For Oliver Frank Chanarin, fact is forever in flux ...of what is real become less firm. The photographer’s newest book, A Perfect Sentence, is rooted in the idea that fact is forever in flux.... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Brontez Purnell’s parafiction of performance ...exception. Purnell’s body is illuminated by a secord-order rendering of artifice, where the “truth” of a text is complicated by that of physical reality—taking the... by Erin Ikeuchi Conversations Lucas Ossendrijver and Sarah Richardson step outside the fitting room, seeking the humanist side of fashion ...a sudden, it has new life. Lucas: When you go searching for new techniques, that’s where there are new possibilities. I’m not so interested in... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Erdem Moralıoğlu’s costuming bridges dynamism with delicacy ...Brexit, COVID, and three new prime ministers. In the wake of these national calamities, Moralıoğlu’s intimate silhouettes aren’t just references to mid-century womenswear and antiquity,... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold Transcending Cannes—at Cannes ...that comes with being a teenage girl in a world where societal pressures encourage concealment of insecurities. Brilliantly capturing the nuances of coming of age,... by Sarah Daoui Above the Fold The resurrection of Youth Lagoon ...immediate reality: examining every detail of the physical world around him, grappling with the most tender parts of himself, considering and reconsidering every passing thought.... by Megan Hullander At Large The sacrament of the secondhand ...utterly idiosyncratic. And they prize the old, unseduced by the relentlessly new. Recently, kilo sales have become commonplace in this city. In the weeks after... by Shahidha Bari Above the Fold The curious case of hallucinating chatbots ...where AIs confidently present error-riddled responses as fact. And, thanks to Google’s recent integration of AI, that may also be true of the search engine’s... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold The Deep Water Literary Festival builds upon George Orwell’s enduring vision ...committed to promoting the literary arts in regions outside of New York City. By situating itself upstate, rather than in one of the five boroughs,... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold For Jeanette Andrews, magic is a mode of philosophy ...at just 14; her institutional collaborators include Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt, the International Museum of Surgical Science, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her latest... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Reading Sean DeLear: A vicarious, astral convergence of past and future lives ...age. With him, I found answers to questions I did not yet know to ask—shirking my high school curriculum for new lessons in pleasure. He... by Journey Streams At Large The erotic architecture of Fire Island, where flesh and fantasy meet ...that winter represented a brave new world of sex positivity and erotic freedom—the windfall, it seemed, of the gay liberation movement, and its imperative to... by Jack Parlett Above the Fold True crime TikTokers are employing AI to resurrect murder victims ...Stone. “Imagine being the parent or relative of one of these kids in these AI videos. You go online, and in this strange, high-pitched voice,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Conversations For Pieter Mulier and Amber Valletta, luxury is carved from personal connections ...permeating every detail—most notably, and most importantly, with the community within the house. To that end, Mulier staged his latest show, Summer/Fall 2023, in his... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold The vulgar, campy, radical world of filmmaker Bruce LaBruce I’m standing in the prop room for arthouse director—and notorious shlock and shock connoisseur—Bruce LaBruce’s latest movie. A table is laid with penis prosecco glasses,... by Amelia Abraham Above the Fold A tech bro created an AI-powered clone of his own girlfriend ...up with Forever Voices AI to create CarynAI, a voice-based “virtual girlfriend” that fans can chat and even sext with for $1 per minute. The... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold ‘Titanic Depression’ is not a parody ...she’s easily labeled as a comedian first. But it’s storytelling that drives her work: the human nuance that makes it resonant. Following a two-night run... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Finding the words to reconnect with a lost cultural identity ...lower than them.” Esther, 21 Why did you choose to meet at New World Mall? I have a lot of memories of following my parents... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in May ...Menjos Entertainment Complex—a strange and seductive setting for the queer-forward Club Toilet. —Colin Boyle, Chief of Staff Bought Benjamin Moore paint in Steam: I moved... by Document Editors Above the Fold For Balenciaga, life is a runway—and should be treated as such ...for instance, becomes a pantashoe, finding a strange intersection between subversive style and flexible functionality. Ready-to-wear takes new literarility as the designs are flaunted in... by Document Journal Above the Fold Alice Longyu Gao’s playlist for getting over your Dimes Square crush ...of xyr imagined hetero-free world of drag brunches and unlimited financial abundance. Such a world—unburdened by white, patriarchal oppression—is one Longyu Gao aims to make... by Maraya Fisher At Large Chasing the mirage of the “future city” ...concept, are a concern for some and a fantasy for others. According to the World Bank, by 2050, seven to 10 billion people will be... by Mohamed Elshahed Above the Fold Frans de Waal and Isabella Rossellini find models for morality in the past and the primal ...de Waal. The two met onstage at Red Hook’s Pioneer Works to discuss de Waal’s latest book, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.... by Megan Hullander At Large Epistolary Filth: The life and death of ‘J.D.s’ zine ...chain links and found photography. It mixed the demimondes of zine and cassette culture, releasing paper copies with compilation tapes of underground music. The pair... by Jesse Dorris
Above the Fold On the heels of the solstice, Hermès offers a skin-first introduction to the season ...over novelty. Her latest collection’s triumphant sensuality and effortless elegance are proof that her impressive tenure is no accident. Call it quiet luxury, if you... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Pippa Garner and Gray Wielebinski construct modern mythologies ...as a US Army Combat Artist during the Vietnam War. Garner’s work continues to romance the commercial and the conceptual, fragmenting across nontraditional mediums—custom cars,... by Erin Ikeuchi
Above the Fold Why Boxing: A literary, filmic, human argument for the ‘Noble Art’ ...too long after, he was jailed for 18 years for a robbery he didn’t commit. “Here comes the story of the Hurricane / The man... by Antonio Monda
Above the Fold Under the umbrella of tradition, Issey Miyake innovates The grand hall of Paris’s Museé des Arts Décoratifs staged Issey Miyake’s latest Homme Plissé presentation. In the label’s customary fashion, the show was built... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Inside the Jeffries and Jonah Almost’s Outer Heaven soirée ...bags. (Guests carted home complimentary skin products from the genderless cosmetic disruptors.) Here, Document shares an inside look at the Pride party’s happenings, characterized by... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold The Broken Arm marks a 10-year legacy of radical and personal taste ...and some new ones are [introduced]. Guillaume: It’s common in shops if something doesn’t sell, they have to [replace it with] things that sell. It’s... by Colin Boyle
Above the Fold ‘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... by Erik Morse
Above the Fold The enduring impulse of Adam Goldberg ...which comes his way. “There’s no such thing as a steady job when you’re an independent contractor of any kind,” he says on his easy... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold For Tim Bernardes and Rodrigo Amarante, pleasure is the point ...mainstay in a new generation of Brazilian musicians—again proven in his latest album, Mil Coisas Invisíveis. Amarante’s resume is similarly weighted: His theme tune for... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Zegna marries the natural with the pragmatic ...all look quiet and luxurious,” said the designer, “but the tension in the details, the richness of colors, and the freedom to combine garments in... by Erin Ikeuchi
Above the Fold A brief history of tweed, from the Scottish countryside to Karl Lagerfeld ...life. Its popularity is comparable to denim, but it communicates a legacy and a lifestyle that no other material can quite match. Tweed’s newfound affordability... by Meehika Barua
Above the Fold The coronation of Charles Jeffrey Loverboy Last month, King Charles III was crowned at Westminster Abbey, marking Britain’s first new monarch in 70 years. Across the continent, in Milan, another Charles—Scottish... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold JW Anderson distorts domesticity for Spring/Summer 2024 ...of images Anderson drew from is familiar—yet his creations were anything but. With his latest collection, the master of craft has once again proved that... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold For Spring/Summer 2024, MSGM rests between the ethereal and the terrestrial Sogno Off Road, MSGM’s latest menswear collection, took shape against Tanzania’s boundless landscape. For Spring/Summer 2024, Massimo Giorgetti reflects on the space between the “ethereal... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold The queer performers keeping the Chelsea’s subversive legacy alive ...the hotel in stripped-down black-and-white. Shot using a large-format camera permanently stationed in his living room, the series is a timeless record of the people... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold In Daniel Arnold’s New York, everyone is God ...Megan: Something that feels consistent in your work—over the course of your career and across the commercial and personal—is the difficulty to place it in... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold ‘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... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Jessica Stoya and Samantha Cole on sex, tech, and censorship ...in the adult industry, Stoya has written at length about the systemic biases against sex workers for such publications as the New York Times, the... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Charting manga and anime’s trans history, from the ’60s through today ...an unfortunate example of this problem. Their androgyny is often exploited for comedic effect, invasively interrogated by the rest of the cast via non-consensual groping.... by Gabriel Hernandez
Above the Fold For Caterina Barbieri, a record is a photograph ...this common language that can bring people together and have empowering social effects. I feel I’m part of a certain tradition that is defined by... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold 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... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Tamo Jugeli lets the process lead her paintbrush ...why I already had savings to be in New York. Ann: How does New York compare to Tbilisi? Tamo: They have nothing in common. Ann:... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Geese’s booklist for finding nuance in nightmares ...the kind of existential nightmare he’s caught within—instead, he wishes to develop a complex system for sucking on rocks, or test a newspaper’s ability to... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Queerness is an ancient medicine ...queerness would erase itself altogether.” Queerness, and the collective community that comes with it, is healing. The care that comes with queerness—in its tenderness, its... by Kelsey Rhodes
Above the Fold Daytripping: Embracing the barely-known ...I. Upon the depth of the air I am standing on. Where I am animal of the depth of air.” That rather complicates things. What’s... by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold Meet Rayne Fisher-Quann, the people’s (internet) princess ...think the best criticism comes not from hate, but from love. The example I have in mind is how you can shrug off comments from... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold For Oliver Frank Chanarin, fact is forever in flux ...of what is real become less firm. The photographer’s newest book, A Perfect Sentence, is rooted in the idea that fact is forever in flux.... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Brontez Purnell’s parafiction of performance ...exception. Purnell’s body is illuminated by a secord-order rendering of artifice, where the “truth” of a text is complicated by that of physical reality—taking the... by Erin Ikeuchi
Conversations Lucas Ossendrijver and Sarah Richardson step outside the fitting room, seeking the humanist side of fashion ...a sudden, it has new life. Lucas: When you go searching for new techniques, that’s where there are new possibilities. I’m not so interested in... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Erdem Moralıoğlu’s costuming bridges dynamism with delicacy ...Brexit, COVID, and three new prime ministers. In the wake of these national calamities, Moralıoğlu’s intimate silhouettes aren’t just references to mid-century womenswear and antiquity,... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Transcending Cannes—at Cannes ...that comes with being a teenage girl in a world where societal pressures encourage concealment of insecurities. Brilliantly capturing the nuances of coming of age,... by Sarah Daoui
Above the Fold The resurrection of Youth Lagoon ...immediate reality: examining every detail of the physical world around him, grappling with the most tender parts of himself, considering and reconsidering every passing thought.... by Megan Hullander
At Large The sacrament of the secondhand ...utterly idiosyncratic. And they prize the old, unseduced by the relentlessly new. Recently, kilo sales have become commonplace in this city. In the weeks after... by Shahidha Bari
Above the Fold The curious case of hallucinating chatbots ...where AIs confidently present error-riddled responses as fact. And, thanks to Google’s recent integration of AI, that may also be true of the search engine’s... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold The Deep Water Literary Festival builds upon George Orwell’s enduring vision ...committed to promoting the literary arts in regions outside of New York City. By situating itself upstate, rather than in one of the five boroughs,... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold For Jeanette Andrews, magic is a mode of philosophy ...at just 14; her institutional collaborators include Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt, the International Museum of Surgical Science, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her latest... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Reading Sean DeLear: A vicarious, astral convergence of past and future lives ...age. With him, I found answers to questions I did not yet know to ask—shirking my high school curriculum for new lessons in pleasure. He... by Journey Streams
At Large The erotic architecture of Fire Island, where flesh and fantasy meet ...that winter represented a brave new world of sex positivity and erotic freedom—the windfall, it seemed, of the gay liberation movement, and its imperative to... by Jack Parlett
Above the Fold True crime TikTokers are employing AI to resurrect murder victims ...Stone. “Imagine being the parent or relative of one of these kids in these AI videos. You go online, and in this strange, high-pitched voice,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Conversations For Pieter Mulier and Amber Valletta, luxury is carved from personal connections ...permeating every detail—most notably, and most importantly, with the community within the house. To that end, Mulier staged his latest show, Summer/Fall 2023, in his... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold The vulgar, campy, radical world of filmmaker Bruce LaBruce I’m standing in the prop room for arthouse director—and notorious shlock and shock connoisseur—Bruce LaBruce’s latest movie. A table is laid with penis prosecco glasses,... by Amelia Abraham
Above the Fold A tech bro created an AI-powered clone of his own girlfriend ...up with Forever Voices AI to create CarynAI, a voice-based “virtual girlfriend” that fans can chat and even sext with for $1 per minute. The... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold ‘Titanic Depression’ is not a parody ...she’s easily labeled as a comedian first. But it’s storytelling that drives her work: the human nuance that makes it resonant. Following a two-night run... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Finding the words to reconnect with a lost cultural identity ...lower than them.” Esther, 21 Why did you choose to meet at New World Mall? I have a lot of memories of following my parents... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in May ...Menjos Entertainment Complex—a strange and seductive setting for the queer-forward Club Toilet. —Colin Boyle, Chief of Staff Bought Benjamin Moore paint in Steam: I moved... by Document Editors
Above the Fold For Balenciaga, life is a runway—and should be treated as such ...for instance, becomes a pantashoe, finding a strange intersection between subversive style and flexible functionality. Ready-to-wear takes new literarility as the designs are flaunted in... by Document Journal
Above the Fold Alice Longyu Gao’s playlist for getting over your Dimes Square crush ...of xyr imagined hetero-free world of drag brunches and unlimited financial abundance. Such a world—unburdened by white, patriarchal oppression—is one Longyu Gao aims to make... by Maraya Fisher
At Large Chasing the mirage of the “future city” ...concept, are a concern for some and a fantasy for others. According to the World Bank, by 2050, seven to 10 billion people will be... by Mohamed Elshahed
Above the Fold Frans de Waal and Isabella Rossellini find models for morality in the past and the primal ...de Waal. The two met onstage at Red Hook’s Pioneer Works to discuss de Waal’s latest book, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.... by Megan Hullander
At Large Epistolary Filth: The life and death of ‘J.D.s’ zine ...chain links and found photography. It mixed the demimondes of zine and cassette culture, releasing paper copies with compilation tapes of underground music. The pair... by Jesse Dorris