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2 weeks ago | 
complex.com | Maya Kotomori
Take a trip down memory lane on all the best red carpet moments at the Met Gala that left an indelible mark on fashion history. April 30, 2025Marleen Moise/Getty Images, Theo Wargo/Getty Images, Neilson Barnard/Getty ImagesAs the nursery rhyme goes, May marks the end of April showers and the beginning of the month’s flowers. But for New Yorkers, it’s also time for arguably one of the most important cultural events of the year: The Met Gala.
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1 month ago | 
i-d.co | Maya Kotomori
text by MAYA KOTOMORIphotography LIV SOLOMONLourdes “Lola” Leon, known to the music world as Lolahol, has a single white tulip tucked into her cleavage, a bit of skin-as-accessory, accentuating her black leather jacket and matching low-slung pants.
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1 month ago | 
documentjournal.com | Maya Kotomori
In ‘Trauma Plot,’ Jamie Hood writes herself whole again Posted Through raw excavation and narrative shape-shifting, Hood transforms her assault wounds into a rebellion against literary conventions Meet Jamie. A book character, a woman, a friend. She is a reliable narrator and someone people would call a survivor; of multiple assaults, of life.
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2 months ago | 
family.style | Sahir Ahmed |Seb Emina |Jane Lewis |Maya Kotomori
Most mornings for Joan Jonas begin with walking her poodle, Ozu, returning to her loft on Mercer Street, where she has lived and worked for over six decades, and having breakfast. A collector of odd and unassuming things, her home is filled with relics and curiosities that inspire her: drawings and notebooks sprawled across tables, stacks of books, numerous mirrors, time-worn masks, sun-bleached kites, several bird-callers, collected stones, and wooden animal figurines.
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2 months ago | 
family.style | Maya Kotomori |Seb Emina
Ben Werther’s “Townworld” exists in a place that both is and isn’t. On view at Amanita’s Bowery location through April 20, the artist’s solo exhibition of large-scale acrylic-on-collage works on canvas center on a paradox of site. By creating an aesthetic rooted in his memories and locates it in a fictional world, Werther asks: How do we share a collective memory of a place that doesn’t exist?
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2 months ago | 
documentjournal.com | Maya Kotomori
Trevor Powers fka Youth Lagoon sits down with Document to discuss how the full spectrum of human emotion might emerge on a record upon the release of his fifth studio album For over a decade, Trevor Powers—better known as Youth Lagoon—has crafted music that feels like a waking dream.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
documentjournal.com | Maya Kotomori
Fashion designer Elena Velez thrives in paradox, daring the fashion world to digest contradicting narratives and the rawness of self-exposure in her latest collection, ‘Leech’ “I’ve created an autobiographical label, exploring a composite of feminine archetypes. This season feels like a biopsy—of myself as a founder, muse, and brand,” says Velez of her Fall/Winter 2025 collection, Leech.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
documentjournal.com | Maya Kotomori
Associate Editor Maya Kotomori shares the disproven thought experiments from CPHFW Autumn/Winter 2025 I wish I could charge the sun with assault and battery. 6am EST, and for whatever reason, I am awake though my flight to Copenhagen doesn’t leave until 5:15pm. I am traveling to the Danish city on behalf of Copenhagen Fashion Week’s Hospitality Program for a week of shows, appointments, and semi-professional friend-making; all of my specialties.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
documentjournal.com | Maya Kotomori
Meet Sydney Nicole Gifford, a 24-year-old influencer based in Minnesota. She is a professional content creator and Amazon affiliate, known for her minimal “natural beige and cream aesthetic” which she proliferates to 308,000 followers on Instagram and 611,500 followers on TikTok. Her link-in-bio redirects users to a dark oatmeal-colored landing page where you can shop the products in her home through her personalized Amazon storefront. When someone makes a purchase, she receives a commission.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
documentjournal.com | Maya Kotomori
Director Matthew Gasda’s adaptation of the Chekhov classic is conscientious to the enduring power of desire Matthew Gasda’s Vanya on Huron, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic in a new translation by Albina Aleksandrova, highlights the timeless affliction of human desire. The play was so named for the intimate loft-like space of Brooklyn Center for Theater Research on Huron Street in Greenpoint where it took place.
