Known For: Too much to list. Spawning some of the most avant-garde names in the fashion industry, including Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, and Junya Watanabe, among others. Also, Harajuku fashion. Shopping Districts: Specific Places To Shop: Brands: Events: Fashion Organizations: Japan Fashion Week Organization: The Japan Fashion Week Organization exists to further strengthen and…
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Known For: The most amazing street style that we’ve seen in ages Shopping Districts: Specific Places To Shop: Brands: Events: Fashion Organizations: Fashion Publications: Universities & Colleges: To find out more about our e-book, Alternative Fashion Capitals: A Survey Of Twenty Cities Of Emerging Thought Leadership – and how to purchase it – click this link. To…
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The coronavirus pandemic has us here at Manic Metallic in a contemplative mindset – as we’re sure that it does for many others. As restrictions on movement are beginning to lift worldwide and we begin attempts at living a normal existence (though let’s face it, there is no more “normal”), we are thinking of…
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Nudity, by definition, is the absence of clothing on the human body. So, what does nudity have to do with fashion? And wouldn’t it seem that the success of nudity as an accepted concept in the public sphere leaves no room for the success of an industry built on coverings for the figure? And…
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We live in a very strange and unprecedented timeline. Serious income inequality, pandemics, the deterioration of our planet due to deliberate human error. What are we to do as a people? One thing we know is that these issues are so dire that it’d be unproductive to concentrate on them every second of our…
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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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Let’s try an exercise: Name five fashion models that are well-known right now. It wouldn’t be all that unexpected if your answer went something along the lines of “Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner….wait, who are the other models? Does Kylie count?” Or maybe if you watch fashion more closely than the casual observer,…
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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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Icon (n): “A person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.” To answer this question, we have to first understand what an icon is. To paraphrase the definition stated above, an icon is ‘a person or thing regarded as symbolically worthy of adoration.’ A fashion icon, then, could be…
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