Inside Albright Fashion Library with its notorious gatekeeper, Patricia Black
...for the viewing pleasure.” Created by Shawn Lakin. Produced by 90° Collective. Executive Producer Ameer Kazmi. Featuring Patricia Black. Director Jarod Taber. Director of Photography...
‘Storytellers of the black narrative’: Revisiting Gordon Parks’s ‘A Great Day in Hip Hop’ 20 years later
...to mention, Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter releases the album that will play amongst the Mount Rushmore of greats with A Hardknock Life Volume 2. That comes...
Sarai Mari owns her existential crisis
Sarai Mari’s newest photography book is launching this Thursday, July 11th at OnCanal with a celebration and gallery exhibition. Delusion grapples with the photojournalist turned...
Chopova Lowena riot grrrls take over the East Village
...York City. Shawn Lakin—Congrats on the new campaign. It looks so good. Both—Thank you. Shawn—Do you want to introduce yourselves to our readership? Emma Chopova—So,...
DeSe Escobar defines the future of going-out glam
...myself. Here, I can go from place to place and link up with whoever—as opposed to someplace that’s very quiet and pretty far out. Paige—You...
Bethany Williams, patron saint of socially conscious fashion
...people on society’s fringes, and her collections are often modeled by homeless and struggling youth. Document’s Shawn Lakin discussed with the designer the importance of...
Open Mike Eagle subverts deadly stereotypes with caustic humor
...comes from, is observation. I feel like a lot of, specifically, stand-up comedy—I guess even sketch [comedy] too—comes from observation. That’s always been the link...
Jil Sander+ by Andrew Jacobs and Shawn Lakin
...blue for the sea, a milky white like a blanket of snow. Document’s senior fashion editor Shawn Lakin teamed up with photographer Andrew Jacobs to...
On the brink of environmental catastrophe, 6 designers hope to create change
As the fast fashion empire grows and wearing an outfit solely for one instagram picture approval is becoming more commonplace, who will save us from...
Bianca Saunders, the London designer inspired by Frank Ocean and her father
...of draping, cinching, accentuating each quintessential garment allow her to explore and broaden as she so eloquently puts it “the spectrum of masculinity.” Document’s Shawn...
Is the self-care generation killing fashion’s ‘hype model’?
...origins of streetwear: born out of late 1970s LA surf and skate culture with Shawn Stussy, founder of the first-ever streetwear brand Stussy, at its...
Sam Nixon and Shawn Lakin
Photographer Sam Nixon and stylist Shawn Lakin take to Far Rockaway in New York for Document Online.
Chris Rhodes and Shawn Lakin pay tribute to Jean Cocteau
Photographer Chris Rhodes partners with Document’s senior fashion editor Shawn Lakin to shoot Louis Vuitton women’s on location at Jean Cocteau’s home in Paris....
Critics Parul Sehgal and Teju Cole on the changing authority of words
...ephemeral anymore. Somebody could tweet a link to it three years from now. Parul—There are these masters that have to be served. In terms of...
Kneeling at the altar of Virgen María’s sex-infused techno spiritualism
...is playing on the link between divinity, life, and procreation, or social media star who understands that sex sells. This polarization is evident in the...
Gabriel Held’s 12 favorite Camp moments in TV and film
As Susan Sontag famously detailed in her 1964 essay “Notes on Camp,” “camp” was invented to describe something long in existence but rarely defined. In...
Secret Magazine celebrates our generation’s boundless curiosity
...who write about kids think they are,” said Ihaza. Document’s Shawn Lakin discussed with the founder and the art director about how large media outlets...
Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin’s B-horror version of America’s rural fantasy
...a curved chain-link fence, with Fitch’s voice playing over speakers in a sound piece. “They thought it would have been a reconstruction of their own...
Shayne Oliver takes Colmar A.G.E. to the western frontier
Shayne Oliver is back with his most recent collaboration with Colmar A.G.E. The Italian outwear brand and the New York designer have teamed up to...
Mumbai, Unstyled: everyday fashion in India’s City of Dreams
...link, rolling the windows down and letting the moist wind slap their faces, to get a few moments of calm until the city hits them...
Academic and author Marion Nestle believes that food can catalyze political movements
...many of the most challenging problems in society—health is only the most obvious. What we eat is linked to matters of poverty, inequality, race and...
Anne Imhof’s ‘Sex’ convulses with death and desire
...movement called ‘relational aesthetic,’ which sought to link art to human interaction and social context. Her work gives expression to human yearnings and the often...
Science proves banning violent music is total BS
...societal issue. Just over a week ago, Dick was forced to acknowledge a link between violent crime and the reduced number of police officers in...
Anti-Agency is pushing modeling to new, inclusive heights
Ever since its inception in 2013, London based modeling agency Anti has centered itself around inclusivity. Since then, they have grown a client base that...
The burnout epidemic is real—and a four-day week is the answer
...link between to the two,” he tells me. “Perfectionists face an exhaustive daily battle trying to demonstrate their worth in the eyes of others and...
Tabitha Soren sees America’s collective anxiety in our fingerprint-stained screens
...you decide to include the full source URLs and Dropbox links for each image? Tabitha—As somebody who takes images and doesn’t really like people to...
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas Skypes with Hans Ulrich Obrist about the rise of the .net generation
...big return to poetry. A lot of artists are writing poetry. There are new forms of poetry appearing on the internet, and you’ve always had...
Close Journal’s new issue will make you want to call your mom
As a freelance photographer and the US fashion editor for Document, Ryan James Caruthers and Shawn Lakin count both count editing—in Caruthers’s case, images, and...
The Asian designers of London transforming the meaning of culture
...that we use to link to the world of dreams. Ki’ami—Culture obviously informs everything in everyday life, even when we don’t notice certain aspects of...
Inside Virgil Abloh’s iridescent Louis Vuitton pop-up in NYC
Louis Vuitton has set up a “temporary residency” inside the West Village’s Chrome Hearts flagship, allowing fans first dibs on Virgil Abloh’s debut Spring/Summer 2019...
On Drake Carr’s holiday wishlist? X-Men comics and Versace ceramics
As 2018 comes to a close, Document is asking friends and contributors what items they have their eye on, and what their hopes are for...
Holidays with Maya Laner: Fresh latkes and a monogrammed Dior bag
As 2018 comes to a close, Document is asking friends and contributors what items they have their eye on, and what their hopes are for...
Christmas with Three Busy Debras: Gucci sweaters and Grandma’s cooking
As 2018 comes to a close, Document is asking friends and contributors what items they have their eye on, and what their hopes are for...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the old San Francisco, his new novel, and his first 100 years
...was. You link it to old age. Is there something about the cycle of life and death that brought you back to very early years?...
Richie Shazam’s LIT Christmas: elf ears and Louis Vuitton
As 2018 comes to a close, Document is asking friends and contributors what items they have their eye on, and what their hopes are for...
James Veloria’s perfect holiday season: midwestern cooking and Balenciaga earrings
As 2018 comes to a close, Document is asking friends and contributors what items they have their eye on, and what their hopes are for...
Eckhaus Latta’s first permanent New York store is a blank slate
Another hidden gem has lodged itself in the Chinatown mall located under the Manhattan Bridge—already home to vintage paradises James Veloria and Templo, 2 Bridges...
7 Hours
For “7 Hours,” photographer Zhi Wei and stylist Shawn Lakin take inspiration from performance art and soft sculptural forms. They blend natural, earth toned fabrics...
Miu Miu by Gray Sorrenti and Shawn Lakin
Photographer Gray Sorrenti and Document's US Fashion Editor Shawn Lakin join forces with Miu Miu for Document Fall/Winter 2018....
Straight outta Sochi: Culture minster claims rap is a Russian invention
Ever since Jay-Z has released a book of his lyrics, the link between rap and poetry has been well lamented in the cultural psyche; last...
New York’s unreciprocated love for Benedetta Barzini
...a mark. I also had a very strong link to my brother Gian Giacomo Feltrinelli [the pioneeristic European publisher who was deeply involved in the...
Odysseus as a woman: Setting sail in search of Hermès’s Spring/Summer 2019 muse
...and grace to the activity of wearing clothes,” he explained of the ceramic pieces he created for the collection. “I wanted to referentially link the...
8 global track and field stars walked on Virgil Abloh’s Off-White SS19 runway
Since Nike announced its partnership with Virgil Abloh, the Off-White founder and Louis Vuitton men’s artistic director has not disappointed. Not only in the design...
Jil Sander’s latest collection springs forth
Since their start in 2017, Luke and Lucie Meier have approached their reign over Jil Sander by leading with intuition and a consciousness for materiality....
Why didn’t we learn from Anita Hill? Like the scandal 30 years ago, professor accuses Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh of sexual assault
...of sexual assault should be brought into account when someone is in the running to become one the country’s foremost mortal arbitrators. Fox News’s Brit...
Luar’s Angels: Raul Lopez’s renaissance-inspired collection
Document went behind the scenes this season with CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist, designer Raul Lopez of Luar. The show was a blur of immaculately-tailored all...
I went back to school on Vaquera’s Spring/Summer 2019 runway
Document US fashion editor Shawn Lakin describes her moment as a model for Vaquera's high school-themed Spring/Summer 2019 show....
Telfar’s ‘post-identity’ aesthetic emerges on an East River helipad
...Spring/Summer 2019 show, where guests squeezed in between two chain link fences that were set up into a rectangle. As musicians emerged before a structure...
Eckhaus Latta brings its inner circle to Bushwick for Spring/Summer 2019
Since Eckhaus Latta’s conception in 2013, the bi-coastal design duo Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta have managed to merge together the worlds of art and...
