DOCUMENT Journal was founded in New York in September 2012 by Nick Vogelson and James Valeri, launching in conjunction with New York Fashion Week. From the start, the biannual magazine positioned itself at the intersection of fashion, art, literature, and American culture — printed in book format, distributed globally, and built around the conviction that the most interesting fashion imagery functions as cultural document rather than commercial product. The debut issue ran to more than 200 pages, with photography by Collier Schorr, Jeff Burton, Jack Pierson, and Maripol, fashion editing by Sabina Schreder and Samuel Francois, and contributions from Vince Aletti and Mariuccia Casadio.
Over twenty-three issues, the contributor roster has grown into a who's who of contemporary fashion and art: Richard Prince, Hedi Slimane, Craig McDean, Larry Clark, Bruce Weber, Grace Coddington, Rei Kawakubo, Hans Ulrich Obrist. The cover subjects range from Iggy Pop and Sigourney Weaver to Little Simz and Ocean Vuong, reflecting a publication that treats fashion, film, literature, and music as a single cultural conversation. Vogelson, who serves as editor-in-chief and creative director, has described the editorial mission as looking forwards and backwards to process where we have been and where we are going.
In 2025, the operation expanded with the launch of Notes on Beauty, a 400-page biannual spinoff featuring Francesco Vezzoli cover art, essays by Ocean Vuong and Michael Cunningham, and advertisers including Hermes Beauty, Prada Beauty, and Dior Beauty. The motto — collectible but not consumeristic — captures what DOCUMENT has spent over a decade proving: that a fashion magazine can be simultaneously commercially aware and intellectually serious, and that the two qualities are not in conflict but in conversation.
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