A fashion display at the Moore College of Art and Design; photo © Manic Metallic 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…
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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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A fashion display at the Moore College of Art and Design; photo © Manic Metallic 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…
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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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The Model Alliance and supporters gather for a group photo during the Model Alliance press conference in front of Spring Studios on 9/8/2023.© 2023 Manic Metallic 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…
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COTERIE New York, February 21, 2023; © 2023 Manic Metallic 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…
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Fabric entryway wall at FABSCRAP's Philadelphia location; photo © Manic Metallic 2021 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…
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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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A model walks for Philadelphia fashion brand Lobo Mau; photo © Manic Metallic 2021 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…
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Proenza Schouler Spring/Summer 2022; c/o Proenza Schouler 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: We did not want to participate in fashion's continuance of an unsustainable breakneck…
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Ulla Johnson Spring/Summer 2022; photo c/o CNN 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…
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(l-r): Iris Van Herpen F/W 21-22 Haute Couture; Schiaparelli F/W 21-22 Haute Couture; Dior F/W 21-22 Haute Couture; all photos c/o the respective designers Paris Haute Couture Week (July 5th-8th) is being considered by many in the industry as a return to in-person shows. There are still some designers that are opting to do…
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