Dita Sandico Ong’s ‘banaca’ is the new eco-chic
By Marge Enriquez
Once used to make common products such as slippers and ropes, the abaca is repurposed into a luxury eco textile.
Once used to make common products such as slippers and ropes, the abaca is repurposed into a luxury eco textile.
Decorating their home in a Cebu subdivision, businessman Hervé Lampert, 36, and his Cebuana wife Marites “Tess” Gonzales, 40, live up to the precepts of Dedon, the global outdoor furniture company which the Frenchman runs.
Philippine Fashion Week (PFW) has reached its 15th year, following the two-season timetable implemented by its foreign counterparts. That’s a triumph, considering the ever-rising costs of producing a fashion show.
IN 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte, after crossing the Papal States in his Italian campaign, reached Ancona, a port and trading city in northeastern Italy. Seeing the troops, the marquis of the Palazzo Trionfi ran to his fortress called the Rocca Priora on the city border. He then opened fire with two outdated cannons.
FOUR HOURS before the dinner, art patron and entrepreneur Kathleen Liechtenstein, “Maymay” to friends, was fashioning logs from Valrhona dark chocolate. That would be the dessert of her theme dinner for Ballet Philippines (BP) which was set to announce its forthcoming season with its opener, the revival of Agnes Locsin’s Encantada. Written by Al Santos, the story is about an enchantress who protects the forest, and how man suffers from his crime of savaging nature.
At first look, the condo unit of design consultant/entrepreneur Margarito “Ito” Kish is the exemplary single man’s pad – contemporary, sleek, and obviously tidied up by a help. It has custom-made furniture, piped-in music, and art. Beyond function and purpose, however, it could be mistaken for an extension of his showroom, Kish. Furniture is clustered [...]
Every time I end my one-woman dance-theater show, I, this solitary figure, stand upstage held up by loop of thin rope. Slowly I am hoisted, usually with the set as part of my costume. There’s nothing to it, just a mere elevation from the ground, no fancy flying maneuvers. The flight is held long enough [...]
THE LATE couturier Louie Mamengo will always be remembered for his construction, prodigious beadwork, and penchant for black and couture fabrics, used in the most artfully restrained manner. His signature was the figure-flattering black gown, encrusted with rhinestones and other dazzlers. When he was in the terminal stage of lung cancer, he told his former [...]
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