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@aliciagrafmack , @alvinailey ’s new artistic director covers @documentjournal . Photographed by @durimel with fashion director @ronbreezy and wearing @isseymiyakeofficial . @alvinailey dancers: @aliciagrafmack , @james.agilmer , @isaiahdemarcus , @hannahxrichardson , @izwalgreens , @kmo_98 , @caroline_dartey , @iamcoraldolphin , @donnieduncan_ , @x.mack . Photography by @durimel . Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director @nickvogelson . Fashion Director @ronbreezy . Production Director @lisaolssonhjerpe . Visuals Director @phil.backes . Hair @nerohair at @maworldgroup . Make-up @gracegraceahn at @dayone__studio . Set Design @heathmattioli . Tailor Susan Balcunas at @larsnordstudio . Production @jean_cabacunganjarvis at @area1202 . Photo Assistants @austinwithersaustinwithers , @davidkatzinger . Stylist Assistant @mtaylerj . Hair Assistants Kay Sheppard, @nylanasser , @stevierosalie_ . Make-up Assistants @vanessalistyle , @marcwitmernyc . Set Design Assistants Erick Benavides, Sean Colgan. Production Assistant Parna Kapanadze, Max Jarvis. Retouching @sheriff.projects . Special thanks to @czunner and Tracy Severe at AILEY PR.

Representing a career that spans genre and sound, @usher ’s ambition both challenges and provokes. Perhaps this is why the Atlanta-born singer continues to occupy popular culture, not only through his Grammy Award-winning recordings, but also across fashion and the fine arts, where he has emerged as a patron and collector. He identifies career as a collage. Evolution does not mean abandoning the past, but layering it, building new meaning atop experience, vulnerability, and history. In an exclusive cover story for Document, the musician sits down with writer @robfrank__ 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 @ralphlauren . Head to the link in our bio to read. @usher wears @ralphlauren . Photography by @gabrielomoses . Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director @nickvogelson . Fashion Director @ronbreezy . Production Director @lisaolssonhjerpe . Visual Director @phil.backes . Hair @shizz215x . Make-up @lolasbeautymark . Set Design @elysiabelilove at @11thhouseagency . Lighting Director @darrenkarlsmith . Digital Technician @yc.dong . Scenic Painter @kdfantasy . Tailor susan.balcunas at @larsnordstudio . Production @concretereplimited . On-set Producer @leoneioannou at @pony_projects . Photo Assistants @sergio__avellaneda , Jackson Verges. Stylist Assistants @not.jdy , @mtaylerj . Set Design Assistants @rayanmustafa , @vangojones . Production Assistant @jeffcecere . Retouching @_thehandofgod . Special thanks to @thechambergroup .

A new vocabulary of proportion with @essentials Winter 2025 collection. Head to the link in our bio to see the full story photographed for Document Online by @kawashimakotaro with styling by @not.jdy . Photography by @kawashimakotaro . Styling by @not.jdy . Hair @nastya_miliaeva at @lateliernyc . Make-up @aimimia007 . Digital Technician @daniellelarose_ . Production and Casting @laylanemejanski . Photo Assistants @jakewebber.1 , @_yumi_shimizu . Stylist Assistant @melissarizos . Make-up Assistant @shoko_kodama_ . Shot at Hest Studio. Models @officially_ayak at @newyorkmodels ; @mika.nobles and @_emmaguxx at @wilhelminamodels ; @slamin.e at next; @grantvosburgh at @imgmodels .

An evening with Mickalene Thomas: Document Journal marks her historic Grand Palais solo exhibition. Earlier this week at @papasannyc , @documentjournal and Mickalene Thomas gathered an extraordinary creative community including: @derrickadamsny , @marilynminter , @glowmaven , @robertverdi , @browngirlcurator @joshuawoods , @nikkinelms , @carichampion , @shorton007 , @nonahendryx , @l_enchanteur , @joshuawoods @bevysmith , @sharoncoplan_ and more to celebrate Thomas’s forthcoming Grand Palais retrospective, “All About Love,” opening December 17, 2025. Set within the restaurant’s vibrant izakaya glow, the evening honored Thomas’s two decades of fearless world-making: portraits that center Black women with unapologetic sensuality and power; rhinestone-studded compositions that reclaim the canon; and a practice that turns representation into joy, resistance, and radiance. “All About Love” marks a defining cultural moment—Thomas becomes the first African-American artist to receive a major solo exhibition at the Grand Palais. A milestone built on vision, brilliance, and a body of work that continues to shift how we see and feel. With gratitude to @gboydwells and @yanceyrichardsongallery for making the night possible. Wearing @zegna , thank you!

20 questions with @miguel . Fresh off the release of ‘CAOS’—his first album in eight years—and ahead of his upcoming tour, the Grammy-winning artist answers 20-ish of our spitfire questions between takes. Head to the link in our bio to read the full story on his new record, a byproduct of rupture, reckoning and rebirth. Text by @dqibb . Photography by @jeregrier . Video by @anaabeellll . Stylist @not.jdy . Lighting Technician @sean.howard . Production director @lisaolssonhjerpe . Photo Assistant @jamtorie . Special thanks @jeanslafayette .

After eight years in the wilderness, @miguel is reborn in ‘CAOS.’ We sat down with the Grammy-winning artist upon the release of his grunge-inflected album confronting harsh political realities and personal reckoning. Head to the link in our bio to read. Text by @dqibb . Photography by @jeregrier . Stylist @not.jdy . Lighting Technician @sean.howard . Production Director @lisaolssonhjerpe . Photo Assistant @jamtorie . Special thanks @jeanslafayette .

“I think rereading history and rewriting it are the same," says @drewmsawyer , the Whitney Museum of American Art's Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography. For Sawyer, the archive is where curatorial rigor meets radical reinterpretation. His exhibitions recover overlooked histories and fundamentally reframe how we understand artistic practice itself. Now co-curating the 2026 Whitney Biennial, Sawyer represents a new generation of curators treating the past as a fragile yet potent tool, one that demands both meticulous scholarship and bold intervention. The third and final chapter in our series on the curators redefining the archive. Read more at the link in bio. Text by @nickvogelson . Photography by @marksommerfeld . Fashion Editor @not.jdy . Drew wears @vowels.official .

“I like to be seduced [by an exhibition]. I think a lot about affect and pleasure, about being drawn into a small universe. To me, that happens through the environment we create with artists to give an opening to their work for the visitors.” Across projects with figures like Luana Vitra, ASMA, and Pat Oleszko, SculptureCenter Curator and former Assistant Curator at SFMoMA Jovanna Venegas (@jovannav ) approaches the archive as a generative process. Her exhibitions balance rigorous inquiry with visual seduction. In the second installment of Document’s three-part curator series, Venegas considers the archive as “both a physical record and a living concept.” Head to the link in our bio to read.
 Text by @nickvogelson . Photography by @marksommerfeld . Fashion Editor @not.jdy . Jovanna Wears @vowels.official .

Backstage at Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks through the lens of @studioalexanderfischer . Head to our site for a full behind-the-scenes look at each show. Photography by @studioalexanderfischer .

“At times I still feel almost like a medium—channeling energies and emotions, as well as histories and meanings, into the form of an exhibition.“ For Ruba Katrib, MoMA PS1 Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, history is a live wire. As part of a three-part series, Katrib reflects on the archive as a living tool for art, history, and the present. Head to the link in our bio to read. Text by @nickvogelson . Photography by @marksommerfeld . Fashion Editor @not.jdy . Ruba wears @vowels.official .

Known as much for her multiple personas as for her category-defying artistic practice, @vaginaldavis_official has been disrupting ideas of cookie-cutter drag and queerness since her early days in the 80s LA club performance scene. In honor of yesterdays opening of ‘Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product’ at MoMA PS1—a major retrospective spanning five decades of the artist’s boundary-breaking practice, we revisit a conversation between Davis and Norwegian artist @bjarnemelgaard from our Fall/Winter 2015 issue. Head to the link in our bio to read. Text by @nickvogelson . Photography by @wolfgang_tillmans . Fashion Editor @rizzo_olivier .

What actors need, according to cover star #JudeLaw, is “editorial intellect,” the discipline of knowing what to include and what to omit. This restraint is on full display in ‘Black Rabbit,’ a new series now streaming on Netflix, co-produced by and starring Law himself. In ‘Black Rabbit’ and beyond, the actor anchors the storm, proving that longevity is built not on looks but on discipline, pattern, and craft. In an exclusive cover story for Document, @aaronovitch meets with the actor, producer, and collaborator shaping stories with precision and fire. Head to the link in our bio to read. Jude Law wears @zegna . Text by @aaronovitch . Photography by @ajacobs3 . Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director @nickvogelson . Fashion Director @ronbreezy . Stylist for Jude Law @brodie.r_ . Production Director @lisaolssonhjerpe . Visual Director @phil.backes . Grooming @lailalhayani at @forwardartists . Tailor @service.by.design . Production @kitten_production . Executive Producer @mahautlefort . Production Manager @leonestrada_ . Photo Assistants @donnamaev , @aijanipayne . Stylist Assistant @not.jdy . Retouching by @may.glbl . Shot at @rcg_foundation .