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
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Above the Fold Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini moves instinctually ...essentials, the latest in Serafini’s gradual shift towards a minimalist aesthetic. His models marched down an all-white runway in a parade of cream, beige, and... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold ‘Blind Tongue’ constructs Mel Odom’s surrealist dreamscape ...continues to draw daily and remains committed to beauty of the highest order. “I wanted [the show] to be my best effort, the most beautiful... by Jayne O'Dwyer Above the Fold Moncler x Pharrell Williams drew a crowd to the heart of Milan Last night, Moncler drew a buzzing crowd to the courtyard of the Portrait Milano, celebrating the launch of its latest collection, co-created with Pharrell Williams.... by Document Journal Above the Fold A literary window into the world of Courtesy ...de Casier, Sophie Joe, and Merely. Following the release of fra eufori, Courtesy offers Document the latest on her reading list—a window into how the... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold TIFF’s (somewhat) hidden gems ...her village, La Suprema, has no electricity, let alone a TV to watch on. In fact, the small Afro-Colombian community has been completely excised from... by Tia Glista Above the Fold Inside the Bed-Stuy mansion hosting New York’s wildest house shows The summer’s hottest New York City venue was not a venue at all, but a mansion in Bed-Stuy occupied by a group of Georgian artists... by Maraya Fisher Above the Fold Sextile’s ‘Push’ is an experiment, an exercise, an indulgence ...boldly stepping into unfamiliar sonic territory until they find what works. Their latest record, Push, is exemplary of that practice, traversing genres and moods and... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Beyond the looking glass, in the Robert Olnick Pavilion Magazzino Italian Art’s new free-standing structure boasts two inaugural exhibitions, marrying the spirit of community with postwar art... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold A primer on Pretty V, the UK’s most prolific genre-bending artist ...approximately 14 albums out this year already—not to mention a compendium of singles and collaborations, and almost-daily mixtapes—the immensity of Pretty V’s output evades the... by Findlay Buchanan Above the Fold For Spring/Summer 2024, Chet Lo takes a tender approach to erotica ...ISKO made sure the collection was virgin-free—free from virgin fibers, that is—lending Lo Ctrl+Z, the brand’s completely recycled denim. “Clothing has the power to liberate... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Singing the ‘Orchid Blues’ ...college kids. The freedom we were allowed was pretty amazing. We [were able] to bring in real life and the neighborhood. Visiting artists would come... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold An initiation into the good-natured cult of Surf Curse ...them) earned the band a mass of newfound interest, including that of big-name labels. And thus, the first iteration of their band in true, four-member... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold For Raul Lopez, church is wherever you find heaven ...what? A savior. Both sides are looking for the same things but in different places.” This experience inspired the designer’s latest presentation: a show-stopping, rave-ready... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Behind the Melitta Baumeister silhouette ...the parabolic shapes of sleeves and hems. In the wake of her Spring/Summer 2024 presentation, Baumeister speaks to Document about the contours of her latest... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Willa Nasatir’s art illuminates more than it illustrates ...way she works speaks to the themes present in the art itself, rendering the everyday surreal, and examining the simultaneity of realities, whereby two stories... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Vagabon, in her own words ...more towards euphoria, more towards joy.” Part of that joyful pursuit has come from crafting the aesthetics of her latest album. “I’ve been really intentional... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold For Marz Lovejoy, biking is simply the vehicle In 2020, Marz Lovejoy founded And Still We Ride—an annual parade of hundreds of the city’s best-dressed bikers, overtaking New York’s streets in the name... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Finding faith in the face of ‘Natural Disaster’ ...best-known for her vocal stylings for iconic indie rock duo Best Coast—and that’s the very thing she’s trying to change. It’s not to distance herself... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Desired Scenes: Claudia Dey cuts to the core of ‘Daughter’ ...me. This book is in conversation with many contemporary writers who are combining the physical and mental act of making fiction with the demands and... by Emma Cohen Above the Fold Nike Women took to the streets for New York Fashion Week ...Miro Vintage, Kim Shui, Luar, and Head of State. For Nike, movement—as it relates to both competition and to comfort—sat at the heart of its... by Document Journal Above the Fold Genesis according to Lauren Groff ...own concept of civilization—that is, to remake the sinuous landscape he shipwrecks onto with the familiar, angular architecture of England. Crusoe is also the seed... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold Parsons’s MFA Show was a labor of love New York Fashion Week is a stage upon which the up-and-coming flourish—a sentiment best-embodied by the Parsons MFA Show, hosted this year at the Brooklyn... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold The superstructure behind Yiyun Li’s fiction ...former etymologist and her middle-aged caretaker (“Such Common Life”). In Li’s work, the dyad often becomes the locus or node around which a story whirls.... by Thomas Wee Above the Fold Andrea Ferrero’s sculptures give the audience something to chew on ...art must be felt. Peruvian artist Andrea Ferrero’s latest project leaves audiences feeling her work at the most intimate of levels. All My Life I’ve... by Sammy Loren Above the Fold George Rouy’s riotous canvases grapple with the carnal ...taking it elsewhere. On view at New York’s Nicola Vassell Gallery between September 7 and October 21, Endless Songs, Rouy’s latest solo exhibition, feels like... by Gilda Bruno Above the Fold Róisín Pierce revives the language of lace ...label, launched in 2019. The craft in question is Irish lace—“a symbol of hope,” in the words of the budding designer. “It helped my nation... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Mastercard’s policies are a danger to sex workers, and your freedom of speech ...a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, urging them to open an investigation into Mastercard’s discrimination against sex workers. It’s been a long time coming.... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Carmen Winant’s ‘The last safe abortion’ depicts overlooked networks of labor The photographs in Carmen Winant’s latest exhibition look like snapshots from a corporate office. Women answer phones, sort through files, and jot down notes on... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold Behind the spirit of Snõõper ...YouTube comment explainers do conceivably fit within its convoluted definitions. But there’s nothing particularly unique to the shared traits of its bands that really departs... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold The micro-trends we never asked for ...comprise such trends, it’s clear that these aesthetics are defined not by a meaningful divergence from the norm, but by the act of labeling (and... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in August ...to the big screen, with his latest film Passages. I was able to catch a screening on my final day of summer vacation. It was... by Document Editors Above the Fold Digging in the crates with Chicago’s Mike Dunn ...to Ruffneck’s version, this was the perfect song. The internet was starting to come in—somebody says something, boom, you hear it immediately. I still play... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Staying true to FFORME ...that the woman is completely at ease and expressive. It’s a subversion of power dressing; it’s very liberating.” The Holland-born creative director’s design ethos revolves... by Divya Bala Above the Fold Richie Culver dives into the witch’s cradle ...I just succumbed to it? Alive in the Living Room is the most obvious embodiment of Culver’s semi-recent desire to remove text from his work.... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold For the love of a good doll ...33 moveable parts, including a complex shoulder joint that Setrova herself invented, and is constantly, obsessively improving upon. This mad engineer, who started modeling at... by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei Above the Fold On ‘Dystopia Girl’, Harmony plays dress-up ...were done by a friend with a Sharpie. Her personal style matches the maximalism of the music video: uncompromising and carefree at once. Tividad calls... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold ‘Bottoms’ flips the script on the teen sex comedy These days, the horny comedies of yesteryear are hard to come by. You know what I’m talking about: raunchy teen sex movies about coming-of-age, or... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Amelia Winger-Bearskin renders climate optimism with technology ...a storyteller, technologist, and community organizer. As the founder of the AI Climate Justice Lab and the Talk to Me About Water Collective, she explores... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold Friends With Benefits’s dizzying attempt at utopia ...commodification of “community” might be its most brilliant move yet. Still, there was no denying that the congenial atmosphere of the festival was contagious. “One... by Michelle Lhooq Above the Fold Laying the line with Róisín Murphy ...In short: I have a complicated relationship with musicians. Having once been one, I feel intimate with them, yet recognize my estrangement. This personal baggage... by Sammy Loren Above the Fold ‘The Love Invention’ is transportive, loud, spontaneous euphoria ...person in the room,” she says. “Sometimes you have to take yourself out of your comfort zone, in order to move on and make things.”... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Excavating the missing girl—or, at least, the idea of her ...narrators. The comparison to a real-time true crime story exhausts itself quickly. What I mean to ask is: Can we imagine the lost slut as... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold TikTok’s “mind-reading” algorithm is about to change ...compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA). This new policy will allow EU users to trade their personalized “For You” page for a chronological feed... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Parsing the Willyverse William Ukoh is fixated on freedom. Within the first 15 minutes of our conversation, the Nigerian photographer—now based in Toronto—employs the word 10 times. He... by Josh Greenblatt Above the Fold A preternatural attraction to cuteness ...entourage, immortalized in perfume and plastic. It’s doubtful that Stefani knew the social impact that would come from “I like the way that you are,... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Motherhood at the end of the world ...contends with in her latest book The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth. In it, Rush meditates on the lure of... by Alex Hodor-Lee Above the Fold cumgirl8’s “cursed angel” is grade-A, farm-fresh whimsy ...Its competitions are sophisticated, and handled with immense care. The hobby horse makes a cameo in cumgirl8’s “cursed angel” for that disintegration of the boundary... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold For Robert Roest, snarling dogs aren’t always angry ...injected with significance. The artist’s latest series, Six paintings proving angels are really watching over us, is directly indicative of this approach: Everyday clouds become... by Teddy Duncan Jr. Above the Fold The coterie of cardistry ...is in card flourishing. For many at the convention, and in the community at large, magic is actually a dirty word. Cardistry seems to be... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Sunny War is Americana’s brightest star and biggest skeptic ...version more famous?” It’s a rhetorical question: Country music has long made its preferred audience demographic clear. As War pointed out, Combs’s cover competes for... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini moves instinctually ...essentials, the latest in Serafini’s gradual shift towards a minimalist aesthetic. His models marched down an all-white runway in a parade of cream, beige, and... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold ‘Blind Tongue’ constructs Mel Odom’s surrealist dreamscape ...continues to draw daily and remains committed to beauty of the highest order. “I wanted [the show] to be my best effort, the most beautiful... by Jayne O'Dwyer
Above the Fold Moncler x Pharrell Williams drew a crowd to the heart of Milan Last night, Moncler drew a buzzing crowd to the courtyard of the Portrait Milano, celebrating the launch of its latest collection, co-created with Pharrell Williams.... by Document Journal
Above the Fold A literary window into the world of Courtesy ...de Casier, Sophie Joe, and Merely. Following the release of fra eufori, Courtesy offers Document the latest on her reading list—a window into how the... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold TIFF’s (somewhat) hidden gems ...her village, La Suprema, has no electricity, let alone a TV to watch on. In fact, the small Afro-Colombian community has been completely excised from... by Tia Glista
Above the Fold Inside the Bed-Stuy mansion hosting New York’s wildest house shows The summer’s hottest New York City venue was not a venue at all, but a mansion in Bed-Stuy occupied by a group of Georgian artists... by Maraya Fisher
Above the Fold Sextile’s ‘Push’ is an experiment, an exercise, an indulgence ...boldly stepping into unfamiliar sonic territory until they find what works. Their latest record, Push, is exemplary of that practice, traversing genres and moods and... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Beyond the looking glass, in the Robert Olnick Pavilion Magazzino Italian Art’s new free-standing structure boasts two inaugural exhibitions, marrying the spirit of community with postwar art... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold A primer on Pretty V, the UK’s most prolific genre-bending artist ...approximately 14 albums out this year already—not to mention a compendium of singles and collaborations, and almost-daily mixtapes—the immensity of Pretty V’s output evades the... by Findlay Buchanan
Above the Fold For Spring/Summer 2024, Chet Lo takes a tender approach to erotica ...ISKO made sure the collection was virgin-free—free from virgin fibers, that is—lending Lo Ctrl+Z, the brand’s completely recycled denim. “Clothing has the power to liberate... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Singing the ‘Orchid Blues’ ...college kids. The freedom we were allowed was pretty amazing. We [were able] to bring in real life and the neighborhood. Visiting artists would come... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold An initiation into the good-natured cult of Surf Curse ...them) earned the band a mass of newfound interest, including that of big-name labels. And thus, the first iteration of their band in true, four-member... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold For Raul Lopez, church is wherever you find heaven ...what? A savior. Both sides are looking for the same things but in different places.” This experience inspired the designer’s latest presentation: a show-stopping, rave-ready... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Behind the Melitta Baumeister silhouette ...the parabolic shapes of sleeves and hems. In the wake of her Spring/Summer 2024 presentation, Baumeister speaks to Document about the contours of her latest... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Willa Nasatir’s art illuminates more than it illustrates ...way she works speaks to the themes present in the art itself, rendering the everyday surreal, and examining the simultaneity of realities, whereby two stories... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Vagabon, in her own words ...more towards euphoria, more towards joy.” Part of that joyful pursuit has come from crafting the aesthetics of her latest album. “I’ve been really intentional... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold For Marz Lovejoy, biking is simply the vehicle In 2020, Marz Lovejoy founded And Still We Ride—an annual parade of hundreds of the city’s best-dressed bikers, overtaking New York’s streets in the name... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Finding faith in the face of ‘Natural Disaster’ ...best-known for her vocal stylings for iconic indie rock duo Best Coast—and that’s the very thing she’s trying to change. It’s not to distance herself... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Desired Scenes: Claudia Dey cuts to the core of ‘Daughter’ ...me. This book is in conversation with many contemporary writers who are combining the physical and mental act of making fiction with the demands and... by Emma Cohen
Above the Fold Nike Women took to the streets for New York Fashion Week ...Miro Vintage, Kim Shui, Luar, and Head of State. For Nike, movement—as it relates to both competition and to comfort—sat at the heart of its... by Document Journal
Above the Fold Genesis according to Lauren Groff ...own concept of civilization—that is, to remake the sinuous landscape he shipwrecks onto with the familiar, angular architecture of England. Crusoe is also the seed... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Parsons’s MFA Show was a labor of love New York Fashion Week is a stage upon which the up-and-coming flourish—a sentiment best-embodied by the Parsons MFA Show, hosted this year at the Brooklyn... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold The superstructure behind Yiyun Li’s fiction ...former etymologist and her middle-aged caretaker (“Such Common Life”). In Li’s work, the dyad often becomes the locus or node around which a story whirls.... by Thomas Wee
Above the Fold Andrea Ferrero’s sculptures give the audience something to chew on ...art must be felt. Peruvian artist Andrea Ferrero’s latest project leaves audiences feeling her work at the most intimate of levels. All My Life I’ve... by Sammy Loren
Above the Fold George Rouy’s riotous canvases grapple with the carnal ...taking it elsewhere. On view at New York’s Nicola Vassell Gallery between September 7 and October 21, Endless Songs, Rouy’s latest solo exhibition, feels like... by Gilda Bruno
Above the Fold Róisín Pierce revives the language of lace ...label, launched in 2019. The craft in question is Irish lace—“a symbol of hope,” in the words of the budding designer. “It helped my nation... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Mastercard’s policies are a danger to sex workers, and your freedom of speech ...a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, urging them to open an investigation into Mastercard’s discrimination against sex workers. It’s been a long time coming.... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Carmen Winant’s ‘The last safe abortion’ depicts overlooked networks of labor The photographs in Carmen Winant’s latest exhibition look like snapshots from a corporate office. Women answer phones, sort through files, and jot down notes on... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold Behind the spirit of Snõõper ...YouTube comment explainers do conceivably fit within its convoluted definitions. But there’s nothing particularly unique to the shared traits of its bands that really departs... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold The micro-trends we never asked for ...comprise such trends, it’s clear that these aesthetics are defined not by a meaningful divergence from the norm, but by the act of labeling (and... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in August ...to the big screen, with his latest film Passages. I was able to catch a screening on my final day of summer vacation. It was... by Document Editors
Above the Fold Digging in the crates with Chicago’s Mike Dunn ...to Ruffneck’s version, this was the perfect song. The internet was starting to come in—somebody says something, boom, you hear it immediately. I still play... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Staying true to FFORME ...that the woman is completely at ease and expressive. It’s a subversion of power dressing; it’s very liberating.” The Holland-born creative director’s design ethos revolves... by Divya Bala
Above the Fold Richie Culver dives into the witch’s cradle ...I just succumbed to it? Alive in the Living Room is the most obvious embodiment of Culver’s semi-recent desire to remove text from his work.... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold For the love of a good doll ...33 moveable parts, including a complex shoulder joint that Setrova herself invented, and is constantly, obsessively improving upon. This mad engineer, who started modeling at... by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
Above the Fold On ‘Dystopia Girl’, Harmony plays dress-up ...were done by a friend with a Sharpie. Her personal style matches the maximalism of the music video: uncompromising and carefree at once. Tividad calls... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold ‘Bottoms’ flips the script on the teen sex comedy These days, the horny comedies of yesteryear are hard to come by. You know what I’m talking about: raunchy teen sex movies about coming-of-age, or... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Amelia Winger-Bearskin renders climate optimism with technology ...a storyteller, technologist, and community organizer. As the founder of the AI Climate Justice Lab and the Talk to Me About Water Collective, she explores... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold Friends With Benefits’s dizzying attempt at utopia ...commodification of “community” might be its most brilliant move yet. Still, there was no denying that the congenial atmosphere of the festival was contagious. “One... by Michelle Lhooq
Above the Fold Laying the line with Róisín Murphy ...In short: I have a complicated relationship with musicians. Having once been one, I feel intimate with them, yet recognize my estrangement. This personal baggage... by Sammy Loren
Above the Fold ‘The Love Invention’ is transportive, loud, spontaneous euphoria ...person in the room,” she says. “Sometimes you have to take yourself out of your comfort zone, in order to move on and make things.”... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Excavating the missing girl—or, at least, the idea of her ...narrators. The comparison to a real-time true crime story exhausts itself quickly. What I mean to ask is: Can we imagine the lost slut as... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold TikTok’s “mind-reading” algorithm is about to change ...compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA). This new policy will allow EU users to trade their personalized “For You” page for a chronological feed... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Parsing the Willyverse William Ukoh is fixated on freedom. Within the first 15 minutes of our conversation, the Nigerian photographer—now based in Toronto—employs the word 10 times. He... by Josh Greenblatt
Above the Fold A preternatural attraction to cuteness ...entourage, immortalized in perfume and plastic. It’s doubtful that Stefani knew the social impact that would come from “I like the way that you are,... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Motherhood at the end of the world ...contends with in her latest book The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth. In it, Rush meditates on the lure of... by Alex Hodor-Lee
Above the Fold cumgirl8’s “cursed angel” is grade-A, farm-fresh whimsy ...Its competitions are sophisticated, and handled with immense care. The hobby horse makes a cameo in cumgirl8’s “cursed angel” for that disintegration of the boundary... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold For Robert Roest, snarling dogs aren’t always angry ...injected with significance. The artist’s latest series, Six paintings proving angels are really watching over us, is directly indicative of this approach: Everyday clouds become... by Teddy Duncan Jr.
Above the Fold The coterie of cardistry ...is in card flourishing. For many at the convention, and in the community at large, magic is actually a dirty word. Cardistry seems to be... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Sunny War is Americana’s brightest star and biggest skeptic ...version more famous?” It’s a rhetorical question: Country music has long made its preferred audience demographic clear. As War pointed out, Combs’s cover competes for... by Olivia Treynor