Queen Marie Antoinette, 1777 Along with Paris Men’s Fashion Week coverage, the news coming out of the fashion industry from the past week centered around the uncertainty that the second Donald Trump term would bring to fashion. Fashion design brands were upfront about dressing those in Trump’s orbit. For its part, the fashion media…
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Photo via Unsplash Whether or not you’re a fan of New Year’s resolutions, the first month of the year always offers a chance to turn over a new leaf in one’s life. And this year, a good resolution to have is to cancel Amazon Prime. Yes. It’s a task that is long overdue for…
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Queen Marie Antoinette, 1777 Along with Paris Men’s Fashion Week coverage, the news coming out of the fashion industry from the past week centered around the uncertainty that the second Donald Trump term would bring to fashion. Fashion design brands were upfront about dressing those in Trump’s orbit. For its part, the fashion media…
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Photo via Unsplash Whether or not you’re a fan of New Year’s resolutions, the first month of the year always offers a chance to turn over a new leaf in one’s life. And this year, a good resolution to have is to cancel Amazon Prime. Yes. It’s a task that is long overdue for…
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Podcast host Avery Trufelman and curator Andi Soos discuss the intersection of fashion and architecture; © Manic Metallic 2024 About 150 people filled a room in New York on an otherwise uneventful Wednesday evening in Greenwich Village to hear an American podcast host and a Hungarian curator discuss the intersection of fashion and architecture.…
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Recently, Manic Metallic posted a TikTok video stitch (you can follow us HERE) about Anna Sorokin (scam name: "Anna Delvey") returning yet again to the public eye - this time during the recently completed New York Fashion Week. Let's just say that I did it for science. I commented on the mediocrity of the…
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A look from designer Natalia Quinones's Drexel collection titled "Adornezza"; © 2023 Manic Metallic First, a soft-pink strapless minidress with a front constructed to resemble a bow. Then a cream-colored wide-sleeved blazer paired with soft-pink pants. The last look was a cream-colored silk slip dress with what appeared to be makeshift sleeves. A transparent…
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Kanye West performing on his Saint Pablo Tour, September 9th, 2016; photo c/o Kenny Sun Kanye “Ye” West’s “White Lives Matter” t-shirt at his Yeezy SZN9 show during Paris Fashion Week was wrong and has been labeled as such at length over the past few days by many in the media. We don’t need…
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The start of New York Fashion Week is upon us this week, which feels like a good time (albeit a bit late) to give designers a very important - but simple piece of advice: you don't have to produce or present a fashion collection every season if you’re not inspired to do one. It…
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Cottagecore fashion Just one scroll through social media these days and you’ll see fashion styles like ‘Barbiecore’ or ‘kidcore’ or that one that we all know and love: ‘cottagecore’. But how did we get to a place where every new fashion aesthetic is melted down into some derivative of ‘-core’? How did we become…
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With the proliferation of fashion bloggers in the late-2000s and, more recently, the proliferation of social media influencers, one could be forgiven for wondering what the continued use of the fashion journalist is. But that would be a short-sighted way to view fashion journalism - and it would betray a poor understanding of what…
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It is not typical for me to do writings that reflect specifically from a personal standpoint on issues. That is the domain of blogs, which is not my forte. However, my thoughts are that these musings could help someone else in fashion potentially going through a similar time as myself. I took time away…
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