About Manic Metallic

Who We Are

Manic Metallic began in 2019 and was officially incorporated in 2021 by Founder and Creative Principal Liberty Imhoff.

We are a fashion + culture media company for people who like solutions. We offer editorial and creative products that allow us to be a part of concrete solutions as they relate to sustainability, diversity, technology, and other pressing issues of our time.

Originally built on the conviction that fashion is an art, discipline, and societal force for change, Manic Metallic has expanded its scope of coverage and influence to include art, design, film, and other aspects of culture. Through its media, the company offers written, audio, video, and experiential work which combine to bring the emphasis back to the individuals in fashion and cultural spaces, and to the work itself.

We seek to have conversations that move the needle and address society’s most pressing issues as they relate to fashion and culture. We do not want to participate in a culture in which the conversation becomes the solution. We are hungry to not only kickstart conversations that lead to solutions, but to be an active driver and participant in those solutions.

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 ready to invest in Manic Metallic’s work as a partner, client, or supporter, then we invite you to take a look at our editorial and creative offerings.

Our Core Beliefs

  • Fashion, art, design, film, and other aspects of culture are worthy and legitimate pursuits.
  • We believe in the right to a free and democratic society that values the privacy and autonomy of its inhabitants.
  • Creativity is a signal of our shared humanity.
  • 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 write our work. 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 and all aspects of culture that we currently cover and may cover in the future. 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.
  • 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 and culture workers at all industry levels, 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 and culture 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, specifically, 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.
  • 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.

Does This Sound Like You?

If you’re the type of person who resonates with our core beliefs, then we’d love to have you as a part of the Manic Metallic community!

We are building a movement that is innovative in both spirit and method, all-inclusive in its approach to diversity, and ambitious in the change that we seek to undertake for the benefit of fashion and culture, the people in those fields, and the people who are affected by the actions of powerful people in those sectors. But we’re asking for the support of our community in any of the following:

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