Podcast host Avery Trufelman and curator Andi Soos discuss the intersection of fashion and architecture; © Manic Metallic 2024 About 150 people filled a room in New York on an otherwise uneventful Wednesday evening in Greenwich Village to hear an American podcast host and a Hungarian curator discuss the intersection of fashion and architecture.…
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Tom Ford-designed exhibition vignette. (Benjamin Imhoff for Manic Metallic) “In America: An Anthology Of Fashion” - currently on display in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York - is the museum's second installment of a two-part series meant to shine a spotlight on American fashion and all that it…
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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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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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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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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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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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Kate Moss & Mark Wahlberg for Calvin Klein Nudity, by definition, is the absence of clothing on the human body. So, what does nudity have to do with fashion? And wouldn't it seem that the success of nudity as an accepted concept in the public sphere leaves no room for the success of an…
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