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 Dior delivers flora-and-fauna-filled fantasy for Fall 2023 ...birds, served as the backdrop to the French maison’s latest show. Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri gravitated towards the Italian artist’s work because its themes... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Jordan Raoufpur is at war with the modern day ...these pastimes are completely unalike, but they’re also the same. Everything about the artist is essentially underscored by that state of conflict. He intends to... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold ‘Neon Noir’ bridges cinematic cynicism with technicolor tenebrism Metrograph’s Neon Noir series combines the classic characteristics of film noir—cynical protagonists, sleazy side characters, and cities overrun with corruption—with the technicolor tenebrism of modern-day... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in June ...Some floors below the theater where del Toro offered his musings, there is an eerie, off-limits tunnel (I call it PAM’s Labyrinth—get it?) which attaches... by Document Editors Above the Fold The Seamaster turns 75, bolstering Omega’s legacy of functional design ...Document provides a closer look at the latest iterations of the Seamaster, against a suitable backdrop—the Mediterranean coast. It’s an easy choice for the launch... by Document Journal Above the Fold Daytripping: The dance floor is no utopia, but I’ll take it anyways ...the situation best. There are spaces and times in the city where gay habits of life are the common ones, and everyone else is supposed... by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold A closer look at Ludovic de Saint Sernin’s Spring/Summer 2024 presentation At Paris Fashion Week, the designer tells Document about his latest collection, where a seductive holiday fantasy finds form... by Document Journal Above the Fold Albert Hammond Jr is still trying to “make it” ...still trying to make something great. Maybe experimentation is just learning how to craft multiple things that you’re normally a fifth of. But freeing? I... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold ‘Chaos For The Fly’ is equal parts indulgent and uncertain ...record’s final track, “Season For Pain,” maybe best embodies that tempestuousness: moving from delicate and watery guitars to strange, gray intervals; taking on both full-bodied... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold The sexless fallacy of queer young adult television ...Former Gawker columnist Steven Phillips-Horst said it best in his viral tweet about Boston’s gay scene: “No one even grinding. Gen Z sexual devolution is... by Henry Chandonnet 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 ‘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 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 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 ...is to ‘look’ nonbinary, and I don’t want to have to walk around with a name tag. But performing at the Chelsea—the community that comes... 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 Jessica Stoya and Samantha Cole on sex, tech, and censorship ...a few years ago, they took one check from Manwin—which is what the company behind Pornhub was called then—and two checks from Vice. Five minutes... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Carlos Idun-Tawiah recasts his boyhood ...see other people interact with the images? Or is that exposure yet to come? Carlos: It’s yet to come. [Sunday Special] will be showing it... by Olivia Treynor 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 ...no “finished” product. A record is merely documentation of a particular stage of a piece’s life. The evanescent nature of Barbieri’s practice is perhaps best... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Blush wants to teach you how to flirt ...to navigate their real-life relationships, an off-label application that’s been met with varying levels of success. “I have trouble communicating sometimes, so I tried using... 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 Daytripping: Embracing the barely-known ...creatures of habit, they wouldn’t irk us.” I’ve come to experience this work because one of these artists helped me with my own transitions, rather... 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 ...was similarly frustrating. Joan Didion once commented that we tell ourselves stories in order to live, and I see that in the way my children... 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 ...the coming-together of a look: “True creativity [emerges] from a certain amount of freedom,” she says to Ossendrijver—“where you’re allowed to communicate openly, unafraid of... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Transcending Cannes—at Cannes ...composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and writer Yūji Sakamoto—won this year’s award for Best Screenplay, as well as the Queer Palm. Set in the city of Nagano,... by Sarah Daoui Above the Fold The curious case of hallucinating chatbots ...engine attributed Animal Collective’s numerous albums. While the exact origin of the glitch is not known, such errors suggest that Google’s transition to AI-powered search,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha 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 ...fantasies; and then, there is “Jack who gives the best blowjobs,” and “Jim who has the best cum in Simi Valley.” Fantasies realized and revised.... by Journey Streams 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 ...really want to talk with, the way I talk to friends in real life,” Cailliau told Vice. He created his bot by combining a customized... 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 ...that I’m Chinese. My parents did their best to raise me as a Vietnamese person despite being removed from their culture. But I know by... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in May ...franchise, who’s worked on every title since Ocarina of Time. Really, it’s a charming testament to the artistry of game design, tying Aonuma’s background in... by Document Editors Above the Fold Alice Longyu Gao’s playlist for getting over your Dimes Square crush “Grandma, grandma can’t you see? I’m a fucking prodigy,” Alice Longyu Gao scream-sings on “MONK,” a single off of xyr latest EP, Let’s Hope Heteros... 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 Remembering Kenneth Anger, an icon of queer cinematic counterculture ...landed Anger in court on obscenity charges—ultimately resulting in the ruling that homosexuality is a valid subject of artistic expression, a landmark case for free... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Water From Your Eyes is expert in the art of accident ...albums that might signal that a sense of humor is a primary point of their identity. (Their latest, Everyone’s Crushed, features a song about how... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Dior delivers flora-and-fauna-filled fantasy for Fall 2023 ...birds, served as the backdrop to the French maison’s latest show. Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri gravitated towards the Italian artist’s work because its themes... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Jordan Raoufpur is at war with the modern day ...these pastimes are completely unalike, but they’re also the same. Everything about the artist is essentially underscored by that state of conflict. He intends to... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold ‘Neon Noir’ bridges cinematic cynicism with technicolor tenebrism Metrograph’s Neon Noir series combines the classic characteristics of film noir—cynical protagonists, sleazy side characters, and cities overrun with corruption—with the technicolor tenebrism of modern-day... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in June ...Some floors below the theater where del Toro offered his musings, there is an eerie, off-limits tunnel (I call it PAM’s Labyrinth—get it?) which attaches... by Document Editors
Above the Fold The Seamaster turns 75, bolstering Omega’s legacy of functional design ...Document provides a closer look at the latest iterations of the Seamaster, against a suitable backdrop—the Mediterranean coast. It’s an easy choice for the launch... by Document Journal
Above the Fold Daytripping: The dance floor is no utopia, but I’ll take it anyways ...the situation best. There are spaces and times in the city where gay habits of life are the common ones, and everyone else is supposed... by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold A closer look at Ludovic de Saint Sernin’s Spring/Summer 2024 presentation At Paris Fashion Week, the designer tells Document about his latest collection, where a seductive holiday fantasy finds form... by Document Journal
Above the Fold Albert Hammond Jr is still trying to “make it” ...still trying to make something great. Maybe experimentation is just learning how to craft multiple things that you’re normally a fifth of. But freeing? I... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold ‘Chaos For The Fly’ is equal parts indulgent and uncertain ...record’s final track, “Season For Pain,” maybe best embodies that tempestuousness: moving from delicate and watery guitars to strange, gray intervals; taking on both full-bodied... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold The sexless fallacy of queer young adult television ...Former Gawker columnist Steven Phillips-Horst said it best in his viral tweet about Boston’s gay scene: “No one even grinding. Gen Z sexual devolution is... by Henry Chandonnet
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 ‘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 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 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 ...is to ‘look’ nonbinary, and I don’t want to have to walk around with a name tag. But performing at the Chelsea—the community that comes... 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 Jessica Stoya and Samantha Cole on sex, tech, and censorship ...a few years ago, they took one check from Manwin—which is what the company behind Pornhub was called then—and two checks from Vice. Five minutes... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Carlos Idun-Tawiah recasts his boyhood ...see other people interact with the images? Or is that exposure yet to come? Carlos: It’s yet to come. [Sunday Special] will be showing it... by Olivia Treynor
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 ...no “finished” product. A record is merely documentation of a particular stage of a piece’s life. The evanescent nature of Barbieri’s practice is perhaps best... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Blush wants to teach you how to flirt ...to navigate their real-life relationships, an off-label application that’s been met with varying levels of success. “I have trouble communicating sometimes, so I tried using... 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 Daytripping: Embracing the barely-known ...creatures of habit, they wouldn’t irk us.” I’ve come to experience this work because one of these artists helped me with my own transitions, rather... 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 ...was similarly frustrating. Joan Didion once commented that we tell ourselves stories in order to live, and I see that in the way my children... 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 ...the coming-together of a look: “True creativity [emerges] from a certain amount of freedom,” she says to Ossendrijver—“where you’re allowed to communicate openly, unafraid of... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Transcending Cannes—at Cannes ...composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and writer Yūji Sakamoto—won this year’s award for Best Screenplay, as well as the Queer Palm. Set in the city of Nagano,... by Sarah Daoui
Above the Fold The curious case of hallucinating chatbots ...engine attributed Animal Collective’s numerous albums. While the exact origin of the glitch is not known, such errors suggest that Google’s transition to AI-powered search,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
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 ...fantasies; and then, there is “Jack who gives the best blowjobs,” and “Jim who has the best cum in Simi Valley.” Fantasies realized and revised.... by Journey Streams
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 ...really want to talk with, the way I talk to friends in real life,” Cailliau told Vice. He created his bot by combining a customized... 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 ...that I’m Chinese. My parents did their best to raise me as a Vietnamese person despite being removed from their culture. But I know by... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in May ...franchise, who’s worked on every title since Ocarina of Time. Really, it’s a charming testament to the artistry of game design, tying Aonuma’s background in... by Document Editors
Above the Fold Alice Longyu Gao’s playlist for getting over your Dimes Square crush “Grandma, grandma can’t you see? I’m a fucking prodigy,” Alice Longyu Gao scream-sings on “MONK,” a single off of xyr latest EP, Let’s Hope Heteros... 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 Remembering Kenneth Anger, an icon of queer cinematic counterculture ...landed Anger in court on obscenity charges—ultimately resulting in the ruling that homosexuality is a valid subject of artistic expression, a landmark case for free... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Water From Your Eyes is expert in the art of accident ...albums that might signal that a sense of humor is a primary point of their identity. (Their latest, Everyone’s Crushed, features a song about how... by Megan Hullander