“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” is the most culturally relevant Costume Institute exhibit that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has produced in years. It has already delivered the most profitable Met Gala of all time. Organized into twelve sections, with each meant to encapsulate a trait of Black style, the highly anticipated exhibit traces Black…
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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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Printemps, the inimitable French luxury concept store, arrived in New York recently and chose to set up shop in the Financial District — not an area known for its trendiness, per se, but here we are. The location – 1 Wall Street – seems an unlikely candidate for such a store (similar stores in…
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The first in-person annual Jefferson Fashion Design Show since 2019 was held yesterday at the 23rd Street Armory in Philadelphia. Select guests enjoyed a VIP reception beforehand, getting to chat with both fashion design students and those currently in the profession ahead of being seated to view the night’s proceedings. To kick off the…
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FashCon Philly 2025, presented by the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator, wrapped up its inaugural event on Friday at the Moore College of Art & Design. The significance of choosing to hold this event at Moore can’t be overstated to the Philadelphia creative community, with Moore being the last arts college left in the city after…
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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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Along with Paris Men’s Fashion Week coverage, the news coming out of the fashion industry from the past week centered around the uncertainty that the second Donald Trump term would bring to fashion. Fashion design brands were upfront about dressing those in Trump’s orbit. For its part, the fashion media took it upon itself…
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Whether or not you’re a fan of New Year’s resolutions, the first month of the year always offers a chance to turn over a new leaf in one’s life. And this year, a good resolution to have is to cancel Amazon Prime. Yes. It’s a task that is long overdue for several reasons. Why…
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s contempt for media was laid bare for all to see during his recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience. The entire interview between host Joe Rogan and Zuckerberg, which took place on January 10, was full of perceived grievance and a larger-than-life victim mindset. The government was after Meta. The…
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When we think of San Francisco, many of us think of radical protests, radical music, and radical acceptance of different cultures. But, the de Young Museum argues, San Francisco also has a radically good fashion history. In Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style, the Herzog & de Meuron-designed institution plays host to high…
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