12 Ms. Universe bets in whirlwind visits to apparel, beauty salons

Twelve Miss Universe bets visit the Uniqlo store at the SM Seaside Cebu on Jan. 17, 2017. (PHOTO BY JILSON SECKLER TIU / INQUIRER)
Twelve Miss Universe bets visit the Uniqlo store at the SM Seaside Cebu on Jan. 17, 2017. (PHOTO BY TRICIA RODRIGO / CDN)

CEBU CITY — Twelve of the 86 Miss Universe candidates visited SM Seaside City Cebu at the South Road Properties (SRP) in Cebu City, on Tuesday afternoon.

These were delegates from Argentina, the Bahamas, Czech Republic, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Namibia, Romania, Singapore, Slovak Republic and Venezuela.

The pageant beauties were welcomed by global casual apparel brand, Uniqlo, at their store located on the mall’s upper ground floor.

They arrived at 5:15 p.m. and proceeded to change into Uniqlo’s new Spring-Summer collection, which they later on modeled for local press and bloggers.

The candidates appeared in the brand’s latest offering of denim pants, cotton crew neck shirts, and jackets.

Uniqlo chief operations officer Katsumi Kubota gave the welcome remarks.

MISS UNIVERSE 2017 / January 17, 2017 Miss Romania, Crina Stinca, during the swimwear event in Cebu. INQUIRER PHOTO / JILSON SECKLER TIU

They stayed for more than 10 minutes inside the store because they also had to appear at Forever 21 and Flawless, also at same mall.

At around 6:30 p.m., they were expected to be on their way back to the Jpark Island Resort and Waterpark in Lapu-Lapu City where they were staying and the pageant’s swimwear presentation was held at noon.

They would join other candidates in a gala party.  SFM

MISS UNIVERSE 2017 / January 17, 2017 Miss Namibia, Lizelle Esterhuizen, shows  off in her swinsuit attire at the Jpark Hotel in Lapu Lapu Cebu City. INQUIRER PHOTO / JILSON SECKLER TIU
Miss Venezuela Mariam Habach. INQUIRER PHOTO / JILSON SECKLER TIU

 

 

 

 

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