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 to be a political journalist owing to a keen interest…
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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 things that one discovers when passing by a number of…
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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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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 both inaccurately looked upon as the sole possessor of America’s…
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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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“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, Lines 38-49 Juliet Capulet’s famous scene in which she…
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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 a portion of Manic Metallic’s design, graphics, and photography work. For more…
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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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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 you our observations within seven different categories. Location Philadelphia Fashion Week, officially slated for…
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“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 that Andrew Bolton, head curator for the Metropolitan Museum of…
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