Document Magazine Taps Virgil Abloh for Art Cover

Biannual fashion, art and culture magazine Document’s spring/summer issue was almost done and dusted by early March, with no less than five fashion covers starring the likes of Kaia Gerber and shot by different photographers including Mario Sorrenti and Willy Vanderperre. But then the coronavirus swept through the U.S. and editor in chief and creative director Nick Vogelson decided to create five additional artist covers at the last minute to reflect what was happening. For those, he tapped Louis Vuitton’s men’s wear designer Virgil Abloh and four other artists — Judy Chicago, Christopher Wool, Mel Bochner and Edgar Heap of Birds — to come up with their own interpretations. “We felt it was vital to hear from some of the most significant artists working today, across a range of disciplines, on their responses to the global pandemic in the form of a series of special limited-edition covers,” Vogelson said in his editor’s note. For his cover titled “The glass is half full, always,” Abloh is pictured walking through the woods dressed in camouflage and holding an axe and a modern chair, with a receipt from a Lidl grocery store in Germany laid on top of the image. Document is known for giving its high-profile contributors creative

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