Don McCullin spent 60 years capturing bloodshed and desperationānow he finds solace in the countryside
...big white pole standing in a garden where the battle was and every time I print that picture I worry about having to print it...
Anti-surveillance makeup could be the future of beauty
...makeup can render faces invisible to facial recognition software and shield against involuntary surveillance. Decoy faces are equally effective: because the software works by identification...
āEnvisioning 2001ā is the ultimate window into Stanley Kubrick’s creative psyche
...Katharina Kubrick, recalls how her father, born and raised in the Bronx, missed New York after he relocated London, always relishing the chance to get...
What is ‘natural beauty’? 5 (role) models resisting fashion’s commodification of confidence
...with five (role) models, we examine how the past formed their being, and how new forms of being shape entire communities and what it means...
Discovering magic in the mundane with DaidÅ Moriyama, Japan’s street photography godfather
...enigmatic, Moriyama’s approach was honed over a lifetime, recognizing that the secret to great photography lies in our ability to look and think anew, to...
The Colville manifesto: meet the ex-Marni designers making clothes for non-conformists
...comfortably and diligently within larger teams for years. Nevertheless, as it happens with many of the greatest artistic endeavors, the inspiration for Colville arose spontaneously...
In Tyler Mitchell’s āblack utopia,ā leisure and play are radical acts
...that a lot, and it transfers over to some of your other work. I’m wondering how you portray the same idea in your commissioned work,...
Kitty Garratt is crafting luxurious knitwear for a 21st century Joan of Arc
...color blocking and textile references. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OUXX52PpAg Lauren: Having specialized in knitwear, did you find your self-taught approach to pattern cutting helped originality in your designs...
āIn The Dream Houseā is a vital and rare account of an abusive queer relationship
...Machado and her ex-partner are writers, navigating each other’s craft and artistry as they navigate each other, so the examination and appropriation of common literary...
JesĆŗs LeĆ³n finds magic in Mexico City’s darkest corners
...and began to experiment with drugs and freedom. “Wandering this city at night was the best and most important thing: to run away in search...
āChef just gonā get your mouth wateringā: For Raekwon, retirement’s not on the table
...he told me in New York City a week prior to the release of The Appetition, his latest EP in partnership with Red Bull, which...
Okay Kaya writes pop songs for your saddest, most honest sex tape
Last year while working on her new album, New York based singer/songwriter Okay Kaya (née Kaya Wilkin) went out with her friends to a karaoke...
Dior Couture’s fiercely powerful āfemale divineā
Since her debut collection for Dior, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri has dedicated herself to challenging conventions of femininity. For couture, Chiuri commissioned artist Judy Chicago,...
Loewe pushes fantasy to the edge
From fur-trimmed cuffs to sequined shoulders, asymmetrically draped fabrics, and Elephant bags in new colorways, Jonathan Anderson presents a unique range of menswear for Loewe...
Jesper Justās enigmatic vision of our technological dystopia
...even as their muscles contract in eerie synchrony. Featuring seven performers from the American Ballet Theater, artist Jesper Just’s newest work Corporealités was created on-site...
Why the Moon should operate on a āHotel Californiaā principle
...the time. “I propose a ‘Hotel California’ meta-principle, which requires settlers to commit to remaining in the new world. You may be able to ‘check...
HermƩs finds sensual luxury in pragmatism
Hermès hailed its latest menswear collection as a “topography of sensuality.” This descriptor is quite apt; the abundance of textural appeal effectively delineated the geographical...
In the ā60s, America’s wearable art movement reflected true counterculture
...was more hands on, that would allow her to engage with the vivacious arts of her generation; she wanted to focus on something new, young,...
In Florida, Anastasia Samoylova captures a tropical utopia on the brink of disaster
...could only do in the morning and in the evening during what was the hottest summer on record (though every passing year has claimed the...
Men in ā80s New York strip clubs spent hours ogling dancers. Meet the women who looked back
...Burlesque, Billy’s Topless, and Scores to create a series of paintings that have never been shown together—until now in the new exhibition, Hot, Hot, Hot....
What will we drive on the moon? Lexus shows Document the future
...rocky terrain? Rooting their designs in their latest terrestrial models, the creative minds at Lexus presented seven proposals for cruising the lunar landscape. Here Document...
10 extraordinary creators imagine life on the Moon in Document’s āLunar Portfolioā
...prejudice, and gravity. This new lightness of living is a bold exploration away from Earthly human conditions. Freedom from gravity should liberate us from common...
OAMC writes new rules for balancing sartorial freedom with functionality in Milan
...sound clip from David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water” 2005 commencement speech, as a model walked out in head-to-toe black featuring a stylish boonie hat...
RIP, Opening Ceremony: designers, DJs, and Club Kids remember the store that was more like a family
...impact.” Natasha Stagg, writer and critic “The memory I have of Opening Ceremony is coming to it before I moved to New York and being...
Surfers, bikers, and soldiers reimagined: Ferragamo celebrates the breadth of modern masculinity
With their Fall/Winter 2020 collection, Salvatore Ferragamo introduces the new men of the new decade, highlighting the emerging fluidity of modern masculinity. Creative Director Paul...
Document announces beauty director Lucia Pieroni
...would be anyone who grows old gracefully. Photography by David Sims. Fashion by Karl Templer. Model Juliane Grüner at Storm Management. Hair Guido Palau at...
Gucci offers a euphoric antidote to hyper-masculinity
...this refreshing and euphoric array, a different approach: one where we celebrate men who are free to practice self-expression without social constraints. Rather than suggesting...
Shape-shifting outerwear and chameleon color at Fendi
The Fendi Men’s Fall/Winter 2020 Collection designed by Silvia Venturini Fendi re-imagines a new normal, introducing futuristic takes on traditional garments. With a tinge of...
Craig McDean and Sarah Richardson conjure fantastical worlds
The pair collaborate, alongside Document’s new beauty director Lucia Pieroni, on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Fall/Winter 2019 issue....
Random Identities’ Stefano Pilati makes clothes for a post-influencer world
There’s no question that there’s too much noise in the world—from the overabundance of images we see on social media to the endless stream of...
On the eve of A-Cold-Wall*’s first show in Milan, Samuel Ross beckons a new era of luxury
...himself to survey that customer and ask what he wants when on the street. “That consumer is ready for—it’s not just a new wardrobe, or...
Kean Etro invites us to his family hearth with this cozy, intimate collection
...“spiritual” forebears, for Kean Etro, the notion is quite literal. Working for the house founded by his father Gerolamo Etro, Kean’s latest work for Etro’s...
Class rules everything around us: a primer in Greta Gerwig’s feminist economics
...can be is not merely a question of ‘coming of age’ or of growing into one’s skin, but actually finding the capital and freedom to...
#UseTheExisting: Ermenegildo Zegna XXX celebrates the craft of sustainability
...more aim to refigure the old into the new. “It is all about reshuffling or hybridizing categories, breaking boundaries in order to explore new territories:...
Ground control to Honey Dijon: the globe-trotting DJ’s āsoundtrack for space travelā
Honey Dijon has always lived and worked at the intersection of the music and fashion industries, as evidenced by her years as a globe-trotting DJ...
āThe L Wordā is back, and less relevant than ever
...more aware of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T5ztQYItEU When Max, the only main trans character, played by nonbinary actor Daniela Sea, is introduced as Jenny’s new partner at...
Telfar Clemens explains why the Harlem and Italian Renaissances were PR campaigns
...night before the event, Clemens invited a number of his friends, who include Juliana Huxtable, Solange, and Boychild, to come together for a bacchanalian feast...
My reckoning with faith, inequality, and late capitalism in Mecca
...Mecca and Medina. He documented his journey through prayer and reflection in images exploring the effects of globalized capitalism and his personal struggle with the...
Quiet Luke’s debut album is a Greek drama for the 21st century
...a really long time, it’s a complicated mix of emotions when you put something out in the world that you’ve been crafting and imagining coming...
Artist Miles Greenberg performs his darkest nightmares with absurdist glamour
...true value lies far beyond its commercial worth; perhaps this is why performance remains one of the most radical manifestations of the form. What is...
Behind the renaissance of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip
With his latest hotel, Ian Schrager revives LA's iconic after-dark playground....
Stefan Cooke meets the 2020s with studded Lee’s denim and fresh takes on British posh
...between reinterpreting British staples and exploring the haphazard irreverence of Gen-Z style. With their Fall 2020 show, rather spookily titled ‘The End,’ the designers signal...
Coletteās Sarah Andelman and i-D founders Terry and Tricia Jones were influencers before it was a job
...Parisian loving New York, to discover that two hours from New York you have all this nature—I appreciate it every day. But in New York,...
Bethany Williams challenges the UK’s harmful immigration policies on the London runway
Highlighting the country's most vulnerable families, the designer sets new bar for socially and environmentally responsible labels....
RĆFĆS DU SOLās Jon George takes Document inside their double Grammy nomination
...like a nice fit and something to do in between—we’ve been writing a bit recently as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYfvTNpuQTE Lauren: What is the band’s writing process...
DJ Tennis captures the diversity of house in this 10-track playlist
Manfredi Romano, AKA DJ Tennis, has played many roles: computer studies major, chef, tour manager, and of course, semi-professional tennis player. Over the past decade,...
āSoul before fleshā: Celebrating the lessons, flow, and cosmic reach of Yasiin Bey
...Bey. Glasper was kicking off his month-long residency at The Blue Note with Bey as his guest star. His latest 19-song collaborative mixtape, Fuck Yo...
Y2K, 20 years later: Documentās contributors recall the armageddon that never was
...infancy. Nostalgia for the early aughts seems appropriate for a generation who never knew a world without Instagram. As the first two decades of the...
Haegue Yang counters sensory and linguistic isolation with a new artistic grammar
...contradictions, while asking complex questions about inhabiting the present and the political. History’s eerie presence in Yang’s narratives, represented as sound, motion, or speech, disrupts...
