Melissa Ladinez Mejia had a great time at the Style Awards, soaking in the fashion industry’s forecast for 2013. She was eyeing the collections, the celebrities and the crowd not only as a publicist for Levi’s women’s global fashion but also as a fashion-smart Filipina.
Fashion’s Night Out is a sartorial pub crawl through Manhattan at the outset of New York fashion week, a chance to scope out the trendiest boutiques with a champagne flute in hand and no pressure to buy.
Contrasting textures and materials, colors in gradation and play on volume—these characterized the Fall/Winter collections of Giorgio Armani for men and women.
What if someone says you could be the next girl to grace an Edsa billboard?
Because it started out with a collection of loose garments made of natural fibers, then dyed with talisay (tropical almond) leaves and sibucao, a medicinal herb, and the styles were named after tribal groups (T’Boli Drifter, Aeta Maxi, Bajan Pilot, Ifugao Swing Top and Kalinga Chinos), Eairth was initially pigeonholed by the press as a fashion brand with an ecological and ethnographic viewpoint.
Like every girl, I like to update my wardrobe once in a while. On a recent trip, I saw an item that caught my eye—a blue print Ikat skirt.
We’ve seen its loose counterpart on the Spring/Summer runways—the pajama pants made of cotton or silk. The trend was a little tricky to adopt; careless styling would only make one look sloppy and frumpy.
Merge bling and rock ’n’ roll and you can expect some serious baubles to come into play.
People of all ages come to me all the time to ask: Why is it that Caucasians and mestizas have pink elbows and knees while women of color, even the light-skinned ones, have brown or even grayish elbows and knees?
All of a sudden our town has been inundated with lists of the “most beautiful” and the “best dressed.” The latest to release its list is Nine West.
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