For those familiar with the art world and its various happenings, the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) stands for high design, high class, and high wealth. The mood is set when you walk through the doors of the storied Park Avenue Armory on New York’s Upper East Side: the exquisite florals, the champagne, the…
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Frieze New York 2026 closed on May 17th at The Shed, and the most interesting showings tended to come not from the all-star galleries. They came from galleries that may not have as much broad name recognition. Participation came from 68 galleries based in 26 countries, with visitors numbering roughly 25,000 from 75 countries.…
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“America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.” Rev. Jesse Jackson, 1984 Democratic National Convention It is from this speech that Andrew Bolton, head curator for the Metropolitan Museum of…
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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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The Illume fashion exhibition, centered around the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator (PFI), is currently being hosted at the InLiquid Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. The exhibit is broken into two portions: the primary portion is a retrospective on the work of previous Philadelphia Fashion Incubator participants over the past decade, with the second portion (pictured above)…
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April is not generally known for showing a wellspring of fashion collections. This year, however, many brands decided to show this month independent of their usual fashion calendars. Manic Metallic decided that it would be worth it to take a look at a few of them. Below, you’ll find reviews for Alessandro Michele’s Fall…
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Tonight, I had the pleasure of attending the Fall/Winter collection launch for The Kooples, held at their Meatpacking District boutique. It was a crowded affair, as the brand has a devoted following. As one entered, there was a DJ stationed at the door and full clothing racks waiting to be perused. Right away I…
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To explain the entirety of who André Leon Talley is could take centuries. If one were going to describe him in short form, you could call him a fashion industry tastemaker; that’s exactly what “The Gospel According To André” does. It did a wonderful job of displaying André’s taste and persona in all of…
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Camp is an indefinable fashion concept. The 2019 Met Costume Institute spring exhibition sought to define it somewhat, which is no small task. Enter Susan Sontag. As a writer, she took on the herculean task of doing this in 1964; her work “Notes On ‘Camp'” was used in part as the basis for this…
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