Global warming causes insects to eat more crops
...Merrill of the University of Vermont, co-author of the study. “That’s not good for crops.” The link between insects’ appetites and decreasing crop levels are...
Who is Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky?
...a supply link between Russia and its French and British allies. Later in life, he became a member of the oldest photographic society, the photography...
Stef Mitchell captures a haunting adolescence in ‘One Damn Thing After Another’
The intricacies of youth and cusping at adulthood are the focal points of Stef Mitchell’s latest zine. One Damn Thing After Another builds on the...
Science attempts to explain why the rich and powerful often behave like swine
...businesses—for some, it amounted to 90 – 100 percent of foreign capital. Just as the link between class and blurring the ethical boundaries can be...
Watch Document dance with lifestyle label 69 through its new exhibition at MOCA Los Angeles
How did 69 make enough waves in art, culture and fashion to warrant an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA) with...
The roadside diner that time forgot
Wedged in the small desert town of Yerma, California sits a roadside diner that has been brewing coffee since the 1950’s. This portrait series gives...
The story of Ser Serpas’s improvised and lucid readymades
...find the protagonist encased in ice. He is the last link to humanity, and those who created A.I. They are attempting to reconstruct a flattened...
Same-sex marriage has opened doors to healthcare for gay men
Researchers have discovered the first link between legalized gay marriage and the improvement of health care for gay men in the US. Following the Supreme...
Ottessa Moshfegh gives sleeping it off a try, for once
...books like that now. Although, I’m really excited about this next generation of writers and what the hell they’re going to make of all this....
The next generation of designers determined to make sustainability a fashion reality
Just outside of our New York City office stands the mecca of fast fashion: Canal Street. For Soho pedestrians, the buzz and hustle of barter...
We have Donatella Versace to thank for the new sensual men of fashion
...rather unostentatiously defining who the Versace man is in the process. Since 1998 she has been holding the reigns of the house and blurring the...
Loverboy in Chinatown
On a sunny day inside a fluorescent lit mall in New York’s Chinatown, director Emmanuel Olunkwa and Document’s Shawn Lakin met with the sweetheart of...
Just Before It All
Document’s Shawn Lakin teams up with collaborator and photographer Ryan James Caruthers to weave a song of adolescent whimsy with the help of fashion’s newest...
The directors of ‘McQueen’ on portraying the designer’s life beyond the tabloids and tell-alls
This past Sunday at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, one of the most praised and enigmatic designers in fashion history received the documentary treatment his...
Proof of existence
Through sparse black and white compositions, photographer Zhi Wei and Document’s Shawn Lakin invoke the work of performance artists from the late 1960s, transposing the...
Lucie and Luke Meier are in pursuit of minimalism’s soul
...my link to this world. She was really passionate about the brand, the way she dressed and the effect clothes had on her,” she recalls....
How Grindr and Facebook are networking shame
...terms and conditions? As people start to question the link between how they intend public information to be used and how it’s actually used, the...
The Document Agenda: “A bath in radioactive water”
...experiment with the correlation between sound and color. Now, it seems a genetic link that explains the correlation has been discovered by scientists at the...
Danish design duo Camilla Staerk and Helena Christensen define Scandinavian style
Brought together by their immaculate style and Danish upbringing, supermodel and photographer Helena Christiansen and designer Camilla Staerk sit down with Document’s Shawn Lakin to...
The Document Agenda: “We must also acknowledge that art is owned”
...will be in the first major show by a Western museum in Iran’s history. The president of the Louvre spoke with the AFP about the...
The boys of Hong Kong
“Why are girls allowed to express affection to each other but boys cannot?” It’s a question asked innocently by one of the many teenage subjects...
Lucid dreaming backstage with Sies Marjan
This season, Sies Marjan’s latest collection was set inside a neon-lit dreamscape, a vision of futuristic romanticism. The designer duo behind the label, Sander Lak...
Tempting fate backstage with Vaquera
Upon walking into the Vaquera show at the Ukranian National Home in the East Village, one was intitially greeted by a confetti covered seat with...
Gillian Wearing performs the doppelgänger
...class system. Yet the most direct link is to Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob). A writer, an actress in small vanguard theater productions, and an outspoken...
Ryker Allen looks at the upcoming models of New York Fashion Week Men’s
New York based photographer Ryker Allen gives insight into the faces of New York Fashion Week Men’s. Pulling aside those waiting to be cast by...
The pleasure of self-assured sentiments
Silk maxi dresses with necklines to your naval, deconstructed vintage denim held up only by a cloth belt, feathered house slippers, and more. This fusion...
PFW18: Viktor & Rolf’s couture is a meticulous cultural commentary
...emotional collision. During the Spring Couture shows in Paris last week, Document’s Shawn Lakin spoke with the duo backstage about their latest collection, all of...
Youth in control: Document travels to New York and London for Resort 2018
Energetic, inspired, and ambitious can be used to describe both London and New York City. With the help of Document’s Shawn Lakin and Alice Lefons...
PFW18: Sketches of Lanvin by one of its own
As a seasoned veteran of Lanvin, Richard Drews has a privileged relationship with the boys who graced the runway during Paris Fashion Week having walked...
FW18: Hairstylist Guido Palau reflects on male beauty at Lanvin
...a more classic look. Now, you can cut hair, you can add extensions, you can curl it, you can tease the hair. You can make...
Casey Spooner and Michael Stipe penetrate queerdom
...are born in and the family you create. Casey wears shirt and pants by Matthew Adams Dolan. Photography by Andreas Laszlo Konrath. Fashion Editor Shawn...
Maria Cornejo’s Family Affair
...Rizzoli. In the midst of her busy schedule, Cornejo spoke with Document’s Shawn Lakin to discuss family, her creative process, and how she seeks to...
If science fiction reflects our innermost fears, how do we see ourselves today?
...as related to technology—the word “technostress” describes the link between negative psychological states and the introduction of new technology; but today, technology, more so than...
Capitalism in the Kardashian Era
What’s the currency of fame? Branding? Sexuality? The body? Youth? Photographer and documentarian Lauren Greenfield has been examining the “influence of affluence” for 25 years....
Understanding anarchy from ancient Athens to the dark web
...it as “a rare example of a true, modern, functional anarchy.” The W.E.L.L. (Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link) is one early example of functional anarchy online....
Brave New Wonders: A Preview of the Inaugural Edition of “Close”
Founded by Document’s Shawn Lakin and photographer Ryan James Caruthers, “Close Journal” is a new print publication that seeks to bring personal, in-depth, and interdisciplinary...
Jeweler Gaia Repossi and Artist Francesco Vezzoli Observe an Unexpected Sparkle
...craft. A product in my profession has to be perfect, but it has less freedom. There’s the business side; market objectives. What’s interesting is that...
The Holiday Stretch
...of Balenciaga, J.W. Anderson, Y-3, and more. Photographer Tyler Mitchell. Fashion Editor Ronald Burton III. Grooming Dana Boyer using Chanel. Fashion Assistant Shawn Lakin. Video...
Underwater, Doug Aitken Returns to the Real
...see the sea and how they decide to explore and invest in science. Dan—Doug, how did you approach the idea of relating your artworks to...
Boyd McDonald: True Homosexual Experiences
...of the Straight to Hell, a zine that collected readers’s “true homosexual experiences” beginning in 1973. Ryan Linkof, Associate Curator at Academy Museum of Motion...
New African Photography
...fictional mythology or place based on the complicated patchwork of identities and allegiances that is living in South Africa now. Her characters are bold, unconventional...
Anthony Vaccarello on Discovering a New Life
...I have both. CHARLOTTE—I feel lucky too to have both music and acting. I miss one, when I’m doing the other. They don’t link into...
The Not So Simple Life: Buck Ellison on his solo show “Country Day”
...is about to some degree. But I want to pose that question to you first. Buck—I link this “disciplined body” to a certain class, so...
Andrés Laracuente at 83 Pitt Street
...to me that there is a link between the wind that can’t blow in the fan work, and the grass that can’t sway in the...
Olivier Rizzo: A Tribute to His Obsessions
...dark past with the hunting by the inquisitors across the flatlands. In Flemish painting there is also the Baroque and the link to the filmmakers...
Juliette Binoche By Francesco Vezzoli
...because we’re all on a journey, we all want a transformation. This existentialist possibility in any art form or medium is the purpose of it,...
Lady Bunny and Jimmy Paul on perfecting the art of hair and performance
...crunchdown in the cab is giving you a cowlick on your immaculate coiffure.” Lady Bunny: But there was kind of a blue eyed soul link...
Future, In Conversation With Italo Zucchelli
...Calvin Klein Collection, discusses the relationship between sound and style with musician Future. Nicholas—Let’s start by talking about how music intersects with fashion. Zucchelli—I think...
Robert Heinecken implicates himself in a vast system of sex, money, and power with his ‘comprimised’ magazines
...and catalogues. With his signature humor and typological impulse, Heinecken commingles fashion models and centerfolds with animal print textiles to link the real and fantasy...
