Document Journal

Document Journal is a standalone magazine that focuses on culture, arts, and fashion. Established in New York in 2012, it releases issues twice a year, in the spring and fall. The magazine is printed in a book-style format and is available worldwide.

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Mert Alas’s SEVENTY ONE Gin is an ode to fleeting beauty

1 week ago | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson

Inspired by the spectacle of the Queen of the Night Flower's annual bloom, this latest offering harnesses a flavor that haunts There’s something perversely seductive about a flower that blooms only once a year and dies before sunrise. Epiphyllum oxypetalum, or the Queen of the Night, unfurls after dusk, in a brief, biological crescendo before vanishing by morning. Native to the dry forests of Central America, it thrives in scarcity, opening only when it’s least expected.
Mystery at the Grooms’: Hermès’ Workshop of the Imagination

1 week ago | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson

At Pier 36, the French house transforms craft tradition into immersive theater, asking what luxury means when the world refuses to slow down From June 19 through 29, Pier 36 has been transformed into a space far more ephemeral than a runway or showroom: a memory palace, a conceptual playground, a house of mirrors stitched together by hoofprints and heritage.
In the age of the algorithm, bodies mimic the machine

1 week ago | documentjournal.com | Sam Venis

For Document’s Spring/Summer 2025 issue, Sam Venis examines how the human body is being reshaped in the image of the machines it once controlled I’m home in Toronto for a visit, and my parents agree to drop me off on the other side of the city. It’s a place they’ve been before many times, a city they’ve driven in for three decades.
A new map for menswear

2 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Nick Vogelson

With a quietly radical show in Dubai, Zegna shifts the geography of luxury—and the silhouette of the modern man Under the neon-tinged heat of Dubai’s nighttime skyline, Zegna offered a menswear collection that proposed softness as sophistication, and restraint as revolution.
Ellery Neon’s punk odyssey

2 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Adnan Qiblawi

From founding a Gowanus squat to performing at MoMA PS1, the transdisciplinary artist has carved a path from New York's margins to its cultural center without losing his edge As a kid growing up in downtown Brooklyn, Ellery Neon was always up to no good. Born to a Lithuanian poet father and a New York-native visual artist mother, his artistic journey unspools like a punk odyssey—from teenage graffiti tagger to squat founder, train-hopping wanderer to drag wrestling impresario.
Synesthesia and the scientific process of capturing memory

2 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Divya Bala

The ephemeral, like a dream, can be slippery, difficult to hold. Christine Nagel, Hermès’s nose since 2016, captures the undertow of a moment, rendering the evanescent into the enduring, her perfumery both honoring tradition and transgressing it. One of the few in-house female maîtres parfumeurs at a heritage luxury brand, she seeks to subsume a signature of her own—though there are those who’d argue her fragrances are distinct in their tactility and sensuality.
Documenting desire in ‘My Romantic Ideal’

2 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Adnan Qiblawi

Photographer Slava Mogutin unites 28 artists across generations for an exhibition at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division Last Wednesday, a group of artists and onlookers gathered at the bookstore Bureau of General Services—Queer Division at the LGBT Community Center for a walkthrough of My Romantic Ideal, the photography exhibition curated by Slava Mogutin showcasing 28 queer artists exploring the politics of love, intimacy, and desire.
Scene report: The 2025 Cinema Unbound Awards highlight the spirit of Portland

3 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Sahir Ahmed

From Nicholas Cage cosplay to zoning lectures with David Byrne, PAM CUT redefines what it means to gather around moving images Standing inside the Tomorrow Theater, a hundred-year old building in Southeast Portland, I ask film producer Amy Dotson what exactly cinema could be. “Much more than a flat thing on a screen,” she says.
On the construction of beauty

3 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Whitney Mallett

For the inaugural issue of Notes on Beauty, Academy Award-winner Julianne Moore muses on the dual nature of public and private personas with writer Whitney Mallett Women love Julianne Moore. She has a quality, and an oeuvre, that endears her to devotees of both artifice and naturalism. I think it’s her eyes, the measured restraint with which they can play an intense, consuming yearning.
Lexee Smith and Dita Von Teese on the glamour of imperfection and the in-between

4 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Maraya Fisher

For Document's Spring/Summer 2025 issue, the It-Girl choreographer and queen of burlesque discuss how childhood fascinations informed their life trajectories Lexee Smith dances alone in a bedroom, with all the grace and sensuality of Cyd Charisse in her iconic slinky Singin’ in the Rain performance.