SF10G runway; photo c/o Kaj Lehner via Berlin Fashion Week Fashion industry folks have a pretty bad habit of thinking that being a fashion capital is a concept to which only four cities in the entire world - New York, London, Milan, and Paris - can lay claim. Surprise - it's not true. We…
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© 2024 Manic Metallic When we think of San Francisco, many of us think of radical protests, radical music, and radical acceptance of different cultures. But, the de Young Museum argues, San Francisco also has a radically good fashion history. In Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style, the Herzog & de Meuron-designed institution…
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SF10G runway; photo c/o Kaj Lehner via Berlin Fashion Week Fashion industry folks have a pretty bad habit of thinking that being a fashion capital is a concept to which only four cities in the entire world - New York, London, Milan, and Paris - can lay claim. Surprise - it's not true. We…
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© 2024 Manic Metallic When we think of San Francisco, many of us think of radical protests, radical music, and radical acceptance of different cultures. But, the de Young Museum argues, San Francisco also has a radically good fashion history. In Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style, the Herzog & de Meuron-designed institution…
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A couple of works from artist Sterling Ruby, represented by Gagosian; photo © 2024 Manic Metallic Art has been essential to the heart of what Manic Metallic is since its inception. We are a fashion media company that creates from the standpoint of fashion being an art, discipline, and societal force for change. Fashion…
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A Brandy Melville store, located in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood; © 2024 Manic Metallic Raise your hand if the storyline of Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion surprised you. No? Me neither. The documentary, directed by Eva Orner, traces the turbulent path of teen shopping sensation Brandy Melville and discusses the darkness…
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@ 2024 Manic Metallic Who really holds power when it comes to creative professions? Is it the artists, with all of their trial-and-error over countless years to see what styles, media, and forms work best for the type of art they want to produce and the vision they wish to execute? Is it the…
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© 2024 Manic Metallic Did you know that creating a green dye for clothing used to be virtually impossible centuries ago - and that at one point in history, there was a version of the color's dye that was so toxic that it caused skin blistering, vomiting, and death? We're referring to Paris green,…
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Photo © 2023 Manic Metallic Couture is a fashion art form that is typically thought of as existing only inside of French borders; indeed, the French began to legally protect the practice of “haute couture” in 1945. Governed by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture (which also gets to decide what companies qualify…
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Much has been made about Gucci Garden since its opening in 2011 in Florence. Formerly known as the Gucci Museum, it was re-christened under its new name in 2018 by the Alessandro Michele-led Gucci. The Gucci Garden complex contains a host of exhibition spaces (the centerpiece of the museum), a boutique where one can…
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Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell “Anna: The Biography”, the newest work by fashion and culture journalist Amy Odell that has taken bestseller lists everywhere by storm, was not contributed to on a first-hand basis by Anna Wintour herself. Anna did, however, provide Odell with a list of contacts with whom she could connect…
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Tom Ford-designed exhibition vignette. (Benjamin Imhoff for Manic Metallic) “In America: An Anthology Of Fashion” - currently on display in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York - is the museum's second installment of a two-part series meant to shine a spotlight on American fashion and all that it…
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