It is not typical for me to do writings that reflect specifically from a personal standpoint on issues. That is the domain of blogs, which is not my forte. However, my thoughts are that these musings could help someone else in fashion potentially going through a similar time as myself. I took time away…
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We live in an overwhelming world, to say the least. This is especially true when one takes even a slight glance at the Internet for any purpose. Consider what happens on a given day when we wake up out of bed: we shower, eat, and head to work either in the next town or…
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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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Fashion journalist Teri Agins In today’s installment of our “Who Is….?” series, we’re going to have a look at the life and career of fashion journalist Teri Agins, someone for whom the industry has amassed a wealth of respect for her hard-hitting journalistic pieces over the years. Teri Agins was born on November 14,…
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Chanel product compilation; photo credit: Laura Chouette on Unsplash With so much controversy surrounding Meta (let's call them Meta-Facebook) these days, it begs the question: how much longer can Instagram hold on as the leading social media voice for the fashion industry? Instagram entered the public lexicon as an iPhone-only app in October 2010,…
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Eleanor Lambert; photo c/o Time Magazine For the next entry in our “Who Is….?” series, we’re going to take the opportunity to celebrate the institution of fashion week. Specifically, New York Fashion Week. We’re going to discuss the woman that made it all possible, and by all, we mean the infrastructure of the modern-day…
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Wanamaker's; photo c/o Smithsonian Magazine The second installment of our “What Was….?” series is the former Philadelphia retail giant Wanamaker’s. Wanamaker’s was opened in April 1876 by Philadelphia businessman John Wanamaker as an American response to European markets like France’s Les Halles and England’s Royal Exchange. The building chosen was a former Pennsylvania Railroad…
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A metaverse; photo c/o Textile Journey What is the metaverse? Even those of us that have been incessantly hearing about - and reading about - this abstract concept for months now still have the same question. No explanation has been imbued with enough clarity as of yet to properly tell us what a "metaverse"…
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Supermodel Gia Carangi; photo credit: Stan Malinowski Our next fashion figure in Manic Metallic’s Tuesday “Who Is….?” series is former supermodel Gia Carangi. Gia was born on January 29, 1960 in Philadelphia to restaurant owner Joseph Carangi and homemaker Kathleen Carangi. Though her parents’ relationship eventually turned violent, Gia’s home life remained intact until…
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Multiple Coty Award-winner Norman Norell and models, S/S 1949 collection; photo credit: Indiana State Library The first installment of our “What Was….?” series begins today with the Coty Awards. The Coty Awards, short for the Coty American Fashion Critics’ Awards, were created in 1942 by Coty, a cosmetics and fragrance company that is still…
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