Long before she was named one of the World’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Filipino Women’s Network, Loida Nicolas Lewis’ name had already become a byword in a small town in Sorsogon.
When she was just starting her career in New York, Clarissa Cruz often had to make do with cocktail olives and canapés for dinner. She’s now fashion features editor of O, the Oprah Magazine, and works on cover shoots with the celebrity host whom she describes as a “hands-on boss and a great collaborator”.
Their dad calls them his “dalaga,” a term of endearment quaintly Filipino that not only describes a woman coming of age, but a young lady in full bloom, a woman finally making her own choice and fording her own path.
Even people who don’t believe in living happily ever after describe wedding planner and designer Lyna Larcia Calvario as a “fairy wedmother,” and not because they’ve had one too many of the wedding toasts.
“Are you ready to change the world?” 30-year-old Mally Roncal asked her would-be business partner, Don Petitt, in 2002 when they were about to start the now-multi-million dollar business empire, Mally Beauty.
I believe the hardest book to read is your own. And that is perhaps why I had not read “Surreality”...
