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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A woman writing; Photo Credit: @CreateHERStock via Nappy.co Fashion is an industry that operates in a deafeningly fast manner in all aspects. Many designers produce, at minimum, four collections per year: a spring/summer collection, a fall/winter collection, a pre-fall collection, and a resort collection (for more on what these collection titles mean, read this…
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Elsa Klensch on CNN's Style with Elsa Klensch; c/o Pinterest The first installment of our “Who Is….?” series kicks off today with fashion journalist and television host Elsa Klensch. Elsa Klensch was born on February 21, 1933 in Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia to parents Hans Aeschbacher and Mary Margaret Aeschbacher. Having originally wanted…
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A bride in a strapless wedding dress; photo credit: Brooke Cagle, Unsplash Have you ever been a bride?Have you ever had to search for a wedding dress for any reason?If so, then maybe you've found the process of choosing a wedding dress to be quite peculiar in many different ways. One of the strangest…
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It is 2022 at last, and along with every new year comes the dreams and aspirations of those looking to become better people and better entities. For our part at Manic Metallic, we have set company goals so that we can become a stronger, more robust company. We are entering our second official year…
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