Who We Are
Manic Metallic was officially incorporated in 2021 by Founder and Creative Principal Liberty Imhoff.
We are a fashion media company that critiques fashion as an art, respects it as a discipline, and recognizes it as a societal force for change. Through our media, we bring the emphasis back to the fashion industry and its players – and away from the hype of the entertainment sector.
Manic Metallic offers written, audio, and video content that furthers its goal of disseminating knowledge of fashion as an art, discipline, and societal change agent.
We do not desire to be a Vogue Magazine, a Harper’s Bazaar, or anything of the sort. We seek to have conversations that actually move the needle and address society’s most pressing issues as they relate to fashion. We do not want to participate in a fashion culture in which the conversation becomes the solution – we seek to kickstart conversations that lead to solutions, and our eternal goal is for Manic Metallic to take part in those solutions as beneficially to all involved as we can.
While we love fashion, we readily acknowledge that this is a massively flawed industry. We aim to be a part of concrete solutions as they relate to sustainability, diversity, technology, and other pressing issues of our time. And we have been building a space in the fashion industry for others that believe in these same principles ever since our inception.
Resistance to the old ways of doing things — and the ensuing progress that comes with that resistance — requires both strength in numbers and strength in funding.
If you are someone reading this who can get behind this description of what Manic Metallic is about, then we invite you to purchase a subscription to our website here: https://manicmetallic.com/register/
Our Core Beliefs
- We do not tolerate the following (in no particular order):
- racism
- sexism
- transphobia
- anti-semitism
- homophobia
- Islamophobia
- ageism
- ableism
- fatphobia
- any other form of discrimination
- We both stand with – and support – fashion workers at ALL levels of the industry, their rights to unionize, and their rights to perform their duties in safe working conditions. Additionally, we believe that workers should not be subject to hostile working conditions under any circumstances.
- We have zero tolerance for physical, psychological, emotional, or sexual harassment, assault, or abuse by anyone with whom we associate. Neither do we approve of it elsewhere, and we make a strong effort to:
- Support victims
- Not promote individuals who have engaged in abusive behaviors
- Speak out against those individuals who have engaged in the above-mentioned behaviors
- We believe that workers at ALL levels of fashion deserve a living wage. And in our definition of “living”, that includes the ability to thrive, not simply get by.
- We don’t believe in greenwashing and other false sustainable practices, and we take care to not promote those individuals and entities that do.
- We believe that the fashion industry will only undertake more effective sustainability and labor practices if it is legally compelled to do so by government legislation. This is why we’ve supported organizations in the past that have advocated for positive legislative change in the industry – and we are currently supporting and partnering with other organizations that aim to do this now and in the future.
- We believe that there can be NO true “sustainability” without the presence of a livable wage for workers AND safe working conditions for those same workers.
- We believe in the wonder and joy of human creative talent, and we take a pledge to never use artificial intelligence (also known as “AI”) to generate the content of any of our written articles. What you see on our website, in our newsletter issues, and on our podcast episodes will always be the work of a human (or multiple humans).
- Manic Metallic reserves the right to critique all subjects pertaining to fashion. Equally, we reserve the right to be independent – to be without master. In the interest of maintaining the integrity of everything that we publish, we fully intend to stick to this ethos.
Does This Sound Like You?
If you’re the type of person that resonates with our above-stated core beliefs – then we’d love to have you as one of our paid subscribers.
We are building a fashion movement that is innovative in both spirit and method, all-inclusive with respect to diversity, and ambitious in the change that we seek to undertake for the benefit of the fashion industry, the people in it, and the people that are affected by its actions. But we’re asking for the support of our community.
You can purchase your subscription to our website here: https://manicmetallic.com/register/
Looking forward to seeing you around!