Fashion’s “new” problem? Moving the needle forward in the age of infinite reference
...about fashion’s creativity and the lack thereof. Witness the rise of @diet_prada, an Instagram account run by Tony Liu and Lindsey Schuyler dedicated to tracking...
Artists Nestor Siré and Julia Weist on Cuba’s underground internet market—and its promise of mobile WiFi
...work for “Virtual/Reality: Digital Media Goes Offline” at Prada Mode. Based in Havana, Cuba and New York respectively, Siré and Weist’s collaborative work deals with...
Document and Prada discuss the future of offline media and online identities
...curated a series of talks for Prada Mode, its three-day takeover of The Freehand Miami Beach, that included poolside lounging, drinks, a restaurant, and parties...
James Veloria’s perfect holiday season: midwestern cooking and Balenciaga earrings
...Prada, and Jean Paul Gautier to the masses. They most recently have taken claim of the storefront next to theirs in an expansion currently displaying...
Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf bring their wondrous world to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
...Spitzhaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures and on view through April 28, 2019 before it travels to the Fondazione Prada the following Autumn,...
Designing a set fit for Dior
...designing a fashion exhibition. He conceived of the scenography for 2016’s Metropolitan Museum of Art show, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology...
Liu Ye’s whimsical paintings take over Prada Rong Zhai in Shanghai
For the last few years, Prada has been carefully restoring Rong Zhai, a historical residence built in 1918 in Shanghai’s Jing’an District that fuses together...
In a system that demands simplicity, Miuccia Prada offers complexity without apology
...Books have been written about her work. Museum exhibitions have been devoted to it. What could there be left for Miuccia Prada to say? Plenty,...
Announcing Document Journal F/W 2018: A culture at a breaking point
...and trial for obscenity. We also speak with the indomitable Miuccia Prada, who continues to redefine notions of beauty, season after season, and Virgil Abloh,...
I lost a pearl earring at Paris Fashion Week
...assess the whereabouts of a pearl earring. Day Two: I wore Prada head-to-toe, except butt-to-crotch I wore Versace. Oh, the after-party was just wonderful. Simply...
“It is hard to do ‘new’ when it doesn’t sell”: Richard Buckley on fashion’s ‘new’ problem
...Diet Prada (run by Tony Liu and Lindsey Schuyler), the fashion industry and its observers have recently become hyper focused on tracking reference, copying, and...
The Milan Fashion Week report: polka dots, stripes and 50 shades of brown
...Prada placed tiny, delicate white Swiss dots on a sheer black dress. Meanwhile, at Dolce & Gabbana, Monica Bellucci opened the Dolce & Gabbana show...
Prada invites a trio of female architects to reimagine black nylon—its signature fabric
...accessories, having previously worked with Chanel and Louis Vuitton on numerous collections. When Prada’s famed nylon was first introduced in the form of Mrs. Prada’s...
The New York Fashion Week report: Model diversity on the rise, school is in session, and leopard love
...his usual rainbow of color for Spring 2019. At Area, electric jewel tones ruled on the catwalk. Prada Linea Rossa, Matthew Adams Dolan, and Prabal...
Frédéric Sanchez and Laurie Anderson discuss the relationship between image and sound
...Prada, and Givenchy have tapped the sound designer to conceptualize the music for their collections. The two artists, who are linked through the common medium...
Luca Guadagnino has conquered love, now he hopes to scare the world
...pink, and in sage-green. Those four suits are all exactly the same. Then I’m also going to have a tuxedo. The tie was Prada. All...
How Prada’s music producer Frédéric Sanchez landed on 90s classics for their 2019 Resort show
...gig for Maison Martin Margiela show in 1988. Ahead of the first Prada’s 2019 Cruise show in New York—its first in the city after a...
Automated for the people
...double-C. At Prada, the men’s show was held for the first time at the company’s warehouse, transformed by OMA into an “oneiric and surreal archive”...
Saskia de Brauw says the #MeToo moment has made her rethink ‘normal’
...external threats. Miuccia Prada described the muse of her Milan collection as being “any woman to be able to walk on the street late at...
Designers are offering protection from the elements of a harsh world
...encase their wearers in cozy cocoons of warmth. Miuccia Prada went the utilitarian route with her fall collection, using padded rainwear made from the label’s...
Muse Amanda Lear defends being alone to artist Francesco Vezzoli
...method to re-entertain history and to explore reactionary moments vis-a-vis the generational gap. His recent showing at the Fondazione Prada in Milan this past summer...
Entre chien et loup by Christophe Chemin
...involved in a project for Prada, a fashion brand. I cared too much about him and his pure art and sensitivity—I wanted to protect him....
The Dutch Fashion Police are scanning the streets for Gucci and Rolex
...targeting luxury Prada coats or old ladies carrying Hermes bags, in a statement on the new policy, police name-checked “Big Rolexes” and “Gucci jackets” as...
Gucci Opens a Restaurant in the Latest Example of Fashion’s Enduring Obsession With Food
...“Food is luxury as much as fashion,” said Stefano Cantino, marketing director for Prada, which owns the patisserie Marchesi in Milan. Brands from Burberry to...
The haute couture fascination inspiring London’s newest class of designers
...won’t finish for another six weeks.” Above The Fold Fashion Week Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part One Architecture The Geometry of Sound Art “Dior by...
Casey Spooner and Michael Stipe penetrate queerdom
...to go full bore into anything that interests you. I often feel a greater sense of confidence in myself when I’m around you. Michael wears...
Prada Channels the Wonder Women Illustrators of the 1940s
The collections of Miuccia Prada are always strong proponents of feminist ideals. Projecting intelligence and independence as the true sources of beauty, Prada’s visions offer...
Will virtual reality have an empathy breakthrough?
...the Fondazione Prada this season, provides an up-close look at the horrific plight of immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. Iñárritu says his intention with the...
A Week of Icons: Backstage Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2018
...runway. Frayed edges, tie-dyed prints, color blocking, and plaid—the collection, titled Hue/Saturation, exuded energy. Prada Echoing the revolutionary feminist comic books of the early 20th...
Ephemeral Relief: Backstage Milan Fashion Week Men’s Spring/Summer 2018
A time of emotional and visual discovery, Document looks back on the best of Milan menswear. Prada An ode to graphic novels, Miuccia Prada transitioned...
New Artifacts
Fashion house Prada unveils its very first line of semiprecious jewelry. Drawing inspiration from the occult powers of primeval amulets, magical crystals, and other sacred...
Artist Francesco Vezzoli Uncovers the Radical Images of Lisetta Carmi with MoMA’s Roxana Marcoci
...the Fondazione Prada Milan in a new show curated by the artist Francesco Vezzoli. Titled “TV 70,” the exhibition explores Italian public television as a...
Realized Attraction: Backstage Milan Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2017
...views of scenes from another time far far away. Prada Tucked into what resembled a young girl’s bedroom, Miuccia Prada staged a quiet display of...
A Wanted Gleam: Backstage Milan Fashion Week Men’s Autumn/Winter 2017
...of course, furs that passed the Fendi-standard but that, beneath, welcomed an exotic montage of ‘80s sportswear. Prada No one understands the extremes like Miuccia...
Jeweler Gaia Repossi and Artist Francesco Vezzoli Observe an Unexpected Sparkle
...as seen in his solo exhibitions at the likes of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA PS1, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and...
Prada’s Power
Prada questions principles of brand marketing with five distinct visual concepts matching its Spring/Summer 2017 collection, which too comprises a cascade of many elements. In...
Prada Presents “Past Forward”
Teased during Prada’s Spring/Summer 2017 runway show in Milan this past September, “Past Forward” is a fashion film collaboration between Miuccia Prada and filmmaker David...
Prada Journal’s Feltrinelli Prize III Transforms Online
Established alongside publishing house Feltrinelli in 2013 to discover new and emerging literary talent, Prada Journal seeks to expand the boundaries of traditional storytelling by...
A Week of Romance: Backstage Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2017
In continuation of our Spring/Summer 2017 fashion coverage, Document heads to Milan to reflect on the week’s highlights backstage. Prada In a way, it is...
“Willy Vanderperre: prints, film, posters, and more”
Photographer and Document contributor Willy Vanderperre’s list of collaborators reads like a humblebrag of fashion’s upper, upper echelon—Raf Simons, Dior, Prada, and Jil Sander are...
Patricia Field and Missy Elliott reconnect about style and attraction.
...60s—from selling art fashion to Downtown club kids and the creative class at her boutique, to designing the iconic costumes for Sex and the City...
Eddie Redmayne for Prada Uomo Fall/Winter 2016
Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne stars in a new short film by Document contributor Craig McDean for Prada Uomo‘s Fall Winter/2016 campaign. The video places the...
Fashion in an Age of Technology
...vest. Andrew Bolton—I’m pretty casual today. I’m wearing a pair of Thom Browne chinos, and a pair of Thom Browne wingtips, a Margiela baby-blue crew-neck...
Grace Coddington on fashion’s evolution, renewal, and her third act
...lot of love and pages to those designers. These days she likes to wear a mix of Céline, Prada, and Marni—mostly in shades of black....
New Kids On the Block
...Bautista (@ddadddyyyy) Age: 24 Occupation: Stylist, Creative Director, An Artist at Consciously Creating Solutions Which designers/artists have influenced you the most? Miuccia Prada, Ralph Lauren,...
Milan Collections: Men’s
...be missed. Prada Adopting a co-ed approach to the usual Men’s show mould, Miuccia Prada pondered “the big picture” in her offering for Fall 2016,...
Francesco Vezzoli meditates on the sublime beauty of classical sculpture
...La Fondazione Prada con la mostra Serial Classic ha riportato la “classicità” alla ribalta del dibattito politico e critico. Le mie immagini sono solo un...
Andrea Rosen on the Passing of Time, Synaptic Experiences, and Cellphones with Miranda July
With her brash brains and understanding of the art market, Andrea Rosen carved a place for herself in the art world as one of its...
Olivier Rizzo: A Tribute to His Obsessions
...worked with the people who are the very best at creating this fantasy today. It is more than pure magic to work for Prada, such...
