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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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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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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"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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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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Badgley Mischka Fall/Winter 2021; photo c/o Badgley Mischka The official schedule for New York Fashion Week wrapped up yesterday, but the American Collections Calendar will carry on for some time (for more on what the American Collections Calendar is, click here). While there were designers that could have certainly done better work, there were…
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Ulla Johnson F/W 2021; c/o Ulla Johnson It seems like just yesterday that we were observing New York Fashion Week's Spring/Summer 2021 collections. However, the fashion world is a hard and fast one, so the Fall/Winter 2021 shows are already upon us - having started yesterday. We are always eager to see the creative…
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A view of the Empire State Building, from 5th Avenue; © Manic Metallic 2020 Surely, you've seen the articles. The ones that proclaim that New York is dead forever, like this unfortunate piece by author and entrepreneur James Altucher. The question has seeped into every news source, every social media platform - and many…
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Libertine S/S 2021; photo c/o Council of Fashion Designers of America New York Fashion Week came and went like a thief in the night, and it'd be understandable if you missed it altogether - especially given global circumstances. We didn't miss it, however. In fact, Liberty - our Founder/Editor-in-Chief - took in many of…
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