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Notes From Frieze New York 2025

Frieze New York’s 2025 edition wrapped up on Sunday, and it cannot be emphasized enough just how important that the fair was to the New York art world at a time of such social and global upheaval. Approximately 25,000 Frieze visitors visited over 65 galleries from across the world. While one of the reasons…

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A Fashion Dispatch: On Berlin and Copenhagen

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 at Manic Metallic wrote a whole book on this a…

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Notes From Frieze New York 2024

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 that draws from the energy of art drives who we are and who we want to…

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Review: “Alexey Brodovitch: Astonish Me”

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 persons or entities who…

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Review: “Ann Lowe: American Couturier”

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 as “haute couture”), haute couture…

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Review: Gucci Garden

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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Review: “Anna: The Biography”

“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 and interview. How nice of her.…

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