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.…
Keep ReadingPodcast 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.…
Keep ReadingRecently, 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…
Keep ReadingKanye 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…
Keep ReadingThe 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…
Keep ReadingCottagecore 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…
Keep ReadingWith 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…
Keep ReadingIt 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…
Keep ReadingWe live in an overwhelming world, to say the least. This is especially true when one takes even a slight glance at the Internet for any purpose. Consider what happens on a given day when we wake up out of bed: we shower, eat, and head to work either in the next town or…
Keep ReadingA woman writing; Photo Credit: @CreateHERStock via Nappy.co Fashion is an industry that operates in a deafeningly fast manner in all aspects. Many designers produce, at minimum, four collections per year: a spring/summer collection, a fall/winter collection, a pre-fall collection, and a resort collection (for more on what these collection titles mean, read this…
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