The first in-person annual Jefferson Fashion Design Show since 2019 was held yesterday at the 23rd Street Armory in Philadelphia. Select guests enjoyed a VIP reception beforehand, getting to chat with both fashion design students and those currently in the profession ahead of being seated to view the night’s proceedings. To kick off the…
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FashCon Philly 2025, presented by the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator, wrapped up its inaugural event on Friday at the Moore College of Art & Design. The significance of choosing to hold this event at Moore can’t be overstated to the Philadelphia creative community, with Moore being the last arts college left in the city after…
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The first in-person annual Jefferson Fashion Design Show since 2019 was held yesterday at the 23rd Street Armory in Philadelphia. Select guests enjoyed a VIP reception beforehand, getting to chat with both fashion design students and those currently in the profession ahead of being seated to view the night’s proceedings. To kick off the…
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FashCon Philly 2025, presented by the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator, wrapped up its inaugural event on Friday at the Moore College of Art & Design. The significance of choosing to hold this event at Moore can’t be overstated to the Philadelphia creative community, with Moore being the last arts college left in the city after…
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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. The crowd was keenly interested in the events of the evening and asked numerous thoughtful questions when the Q&A…
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One thing that has always driven Manic Metallic as a media company is our desire to take part in creating a better fashion industry. Our ethos is, after all, to promote fashion as an “art, discipline, and societal force for change”. Recently, we attended/participated in a couple of events that promote this ethos, and…
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We took our first turn at the MAGIC/COTERIE New York fashion trade shows – which were held jointly at the Javits Convention Center in New York from February 21-23, 2023 – and we did not walk away disappointed. We want to show our audience some of the brands that caught our eye. Choosing these…
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Manic Metallic was invited to attend the launch party on November 10, 2021 for FABSCRAP’s new Philadelphia location at the Bok Building in the city’s southern section. I, as the company’s founder and creative principal, attended with my fiancé Benjamin, who handles a portion of Manic Metallic’s design, graphics, and photography work. For more…
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Today begins our coverage of the Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2022 collections. As with New York Fashion Week, our reviews will be limited to a few per PFW date (Sept. 27-Oct. 5) in which we took interest because it is next to impossible to cover every show without shortchanging both the collections and the…
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We recently had the chance to attend Philadelphia Fashion Week via press credentials, and we decided that this would be a great opportunity to show our audience the manner in which a smaller fashion week operates. We’re going to give you our observations within seven different categories. Location Philadelphia Fashion Week, officially slated for…
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We are choosing to release our reviews of New York Fashion Week’s Spring/Summer 2022 collections beginning today – as opposed to releasing them while NYFW was in session – for a couple of reasons: With that said, our reviews will be limited to a few per NYFW date (Sept. 8-12) in which we took…
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New York Fashion Week – and with it, Fashion Month for the so-called “Big 4” – began in earnest yesterday (although some designers such as Collina Strada have still opted to show outside of the stated NYFW calendar dates of September 8th-12th). And with so many entrants showing – most of those shows being…
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