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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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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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, to be exact. And…
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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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Dur Doux FW22; photo © Manic Metallic 2022 For Manic Metallic's recent attendance at the New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2022 collections, we wanted to take care to cover design talent that isn't already cloaked inside of an aura of hype. We made an effort to see a few selected shows where the design…
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"Ravishing: The Rose In Fashion"; © Manic Metallic 2021 “Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? …O, be some other name! What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By Any Other Name would smell as sweet" Romeo and Juliet, Act-II, Scene-II,…
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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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