Paris Fashion Week was officially over a few days ago and, as we have done with a couple of previous fashion weeks, we created short video reviews for select PFW shows. Each video is under 60 seconds long, allowing for more insight than our previous shorter ones. In each video, you will see our…
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Chag Purim Sameach! The above saying is the proper greeting for those celebrating Purim. It means “Happy Purim” in Hebrew. Purim – the Jewish holiday – is occurring as we speak, so we wanted to give our audience an idea of both what it is and what fashion has to do with it. Read…
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2 billion. 3 billion. 750 million. These are the numbers for viewership of three of the primary royal weddings of the past 50 years. The weddings, of course, are (in order of the above viewership) for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Charles & Diana, Princess…
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The official schedule for New York Fashion Week wrapped up yesterday, but the American Collections Calendar will carry on for some time (for more on what the American Collections Calendar is, click here). While there were designers that could have certainly done better work, there were many exciting collections – and we left NYFW…
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It seems like just yesterday that we were observing New York Fashion Week’s Spring/Summer 2021 collections. However, the fashion world is a hard and fast one, so the Fall/Winter 2021 shows are already upon us – having started yesterday. We are always eager to see the creative output of both the industry’s brightest talents…
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The Lunar New Year is fast approaching, with Lunar New Year’s Eve being tomorrow (February 11) and the Lunar New Year itself falling on Friday, February 12. Let’s have a look at what the Lunar New Year is, and what fashion is associated with it. What is the Lunar New Year? The start of…
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This year’s Mardi Gras – also known as Carnival in some countries – falls on February 16, 2021. Due to Covid-19, however, the celebrations are going to look drastically different – that is, if they happen at all. We still thought that it would be interesting to take a look at the history of…
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Manic Metallic is very excited to unveil a new project that we’ve been developing for the past month. Meet: The Sustainability Wing: A Project Of Manic Metallic The Sustainability Wing: A Project Of Manic Metallic (or, The Sustainability Wing, for a shortened version) came about as a result of our team realizing the increasing…
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We’re over halfway through Paris Haute Couture Week Spring/Summer 2021 and, while we’ve been wowed by some collections, we’ve been underwhelmed with others. We decided to do a 30-second review on each of the shows for everyone. In each of these videos, we give our Top 5 Looks from each collection along with the…
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Paris Haute Couture Week’s Spring/Summer 2021 presentations started today (1/25), and will last through Thursday (1/28). As is to be expected during the Covid-19 era, no shows are allowed to have guests. This means that the vast majority of shows that have elected to remain on the Haute Couture schedule will be shown via…
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