Macy's Herald Square, 34th St. side; © Manic Metallic 2021 As we wind down towards the end of what was surely a tumultuous year both inside - and outside - of fashion, we wanted to pay tribute to New York. The city is, paradoxically, both routinely overrated and consistently underestimated by outsiders. It is…
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Over the course of the past 1 ½ years, Manic Metallic has been working on a project that we see as very necessary and potentially transformative. A project that addresses the concerns of many that the fashion industry is heavily Eurocentric with no regard to the talents and aspirations of non-White people. A project…
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"Ravishing: The Rose In Fashion"; © Manic Metallic 2021 “Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? …O, be some other name! What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By Any Other Name would smell as sweet" Romeo and Juliet, Act-II, Scene-II,…
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Fabric entryway wall at FABSCRAP's Philadelphia location; photo © Manic Metallic 2021 Manic Metallic was invited to attend the launch party on November 10, 2021 for FABSCRAP's new Philadelphia location at the Bok Building in the city's southern section. I, as the company's founder and creative principal, attended with my fiancé Benjamin, who handles…
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Today begins our coverage of the Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2022 collections. As with New York Fashion Week, our reviews will be limited to a few per PFW date (Sept. 27-Oct. 5) in which we took interest because it is next to impossible to cover every show without shortchanging both the collections and the…
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A model walks for Philadelphia fashion brand Lobo Mau; photo © Manic Metallic 2021 We recently had the chance to attend Philadelphia Fashion Week via press credentials, and we decided that this would be a great opportunity to show our audience the manner in which a smaller fashion week operates. We're going to give…
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"In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion"; © Manic Metallic 2021 “America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.” Rev. Jesse Jackson, 1984 Democratic National Convention It is from this speech…
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Proenza Schouler Spring/Summer 2022; c/o Proenza Schouler We are choosing to release our reviews of New York Fashion Week's Spring/Summer 2022 collections beginning today - as opposed to releasing them while NYFW was in session - for a couple of reasons: We did not want to participate in fashion's continuance of an unsustainable breakneck…
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Ulla Johnson Spring/Summer 2022; photo c/o CNN New York Fashion Week - and with it, Fashion Month for the so-called "Big 4" - began in earnest yesterday (although some designers such as Collina Strada have still opted to show outside of the stated NYFW calendar dates of September 8th-12th). And with so many entrants…
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ILLUME exhibit, designer retail section; © Manic Metallic 2021 The Illume fashion exhibition, centered around the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator (PFI), is currently being hosted at the InLiquid Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. The exhibit is broken into two portions: the primary portion is a retrospective on the work of previous Philadelphia Fashion Incubator participants over…
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