Document Journal

The musician sits down with writer Rob Franklin to talk finding expression in vulnerability, moving between Atlanta and New York City, and how he translated New York’s boldness and self-invention into Ralph’s Club New York, his new fragrance with Ralph Lauren. Representing a career that spans genre and sound, Usher’s ambition both challenges and provokes.

In the landscape of design it’s rare to witness a new voice create innovative forms with the intuitive fluidity of channeled, raw talent. For Justin Wesley, it’s just another good day in the studio. There’s a curvature to Justin Wesley’s furniture that feels organically sensual.

The Art Basel Miami Beach Director talks sights and sounds of the artistic haven For a week each December, Miami is bursting at the seams with collectors, artists, and cultural savants for Art Basel Miami Beach. During the fair’s largest global edition, the city turns into a spectacle of art, fashion, and events for the informed. But the version of Miami revealed during ABMB is only one layer of its intricate identity.

Photographer Kotaro Kawashima and stylist Jody Bain collaborate on this fashion portfolio featuring Fear of God Essentials Winter 2025 collection Creative director Jerry Lorenzo’s new Fear of God Essentials Winter 2025 collection drifts through the memory of ’90s hip-hop, probing its confidence and ease and translating that energy into a new vocabulary of proportion.

Friends and collaboraters came together at Papa San in New York to celebrate Thomas's upcoming exhibition “All About Love” This past week, Document Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson joined Mickalene Thomas and an intimate circle of friends and collaborators—including Derrick Adams, Marilyn Minter, George Wells, Latham Thomas, Yancey Richardson, Michael Chuapoco, Joshua Woods, Sharon Horowitz, Stephanie Horton, Nona Hendryx, Dynasty Ogun, Soull Ogun, Glori Cohen, McKenzie Liautaud, Bevy Smith, and...

In 2026, Philly’s vibrant artists, exhibitions, and festivals are taking center stage, proving that the city’s cultural legacy is as alive and ambitious as evers Next year will mark 250 years of American independence. Philadelphia, the nation’s birthplace and one of the East Coast’s most underrated cities, is preparing for a renaissance of its own.

In 'Making It: 1992–2004', Bootsy Holler revives the feverish nights and fluorescent mornings of a Seattle that refused to die after grunge When Kurt Cobain’s slurred screaming—as gruff as it goes—became the angsty voice of a generation when “Nevermind” fired up radio stations in 1991, young people in the singer’s hometown of Seattle had already moved on. They had been raging to Nirvana’s early grunge through the late ’80s.

The luxury glasses brand’s latest collection is an ode to film noir, and a true encapsulation of the Made in Italy mark From the Fiat 500 to the Armani suit to the Superleggera chair, Italian design has long shown off an uncanny knack for balance: synthesizing beauty and utility, tradition and experimentation, efficiency and craft. For a smaller country with limited natural resources—and a fragmented sociopolitical history—the prestige of the Made in Italy mark is by some measures surprising.

With FUZE at Baha Mar, the Bahamas is building a new foundation for its art world, linking local experimentation to global recognition at the Venice Biennale The walk to the FUZE Art Fair isn’t short. From my hotel room at Baha Mar, it takes nearly fifteen minutes through a warren of corridors, across the towers of three hotels, and through a casino. Its floors are devil red, patterned to keep you disoriented but in motion.

At Nassau’s Baha Mar resort, the FUZE Art Fair is putting the Bahamas on the global art map—taking the nation to the Venice Biennale while reshaping the cultural future of the Caribbean The walk to the FUZE Art Fair isn’t short. From my hotel room at Baha Mar, it takes nearly fifteen minutes—through a warren of corridors, across the towers of three hotels, and through the casino. The casino floors are devil red, patterned to keep you disoriented but in motion.