In the early 1990s, I met fashion designer Auggie Cordero through my boss and friend, former Inquirer Lifestyle editor Thelma San Juan, one of Auggie’s closest friends. I was eventually
AS EARLY as three decades ago, eminent fashion designer Auggie Cordero summed up for us, quite graphically, what it was like to stay at The Peninsula Hong Kong, his
favorite hotel.
After the news this week that the guest list for incoming President Rodrigo Duterte’s inaugural on June 30 had ballooned from 500 to 627, came the confirmation from Metro Manila’s fashion designers that they have, indeed, received orders for Filipiniana wear intended for the Malacañang event.
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Auggie Cordero can laugh about it now, but he still remembers the numbing, disquieting feeling when the realization finally dawned 29 years ago: No one was going to knock on his door anymore. Not today, never mind tomorrow.
Why not? Maria clara is the theme of Face-Off 2014, the annual fashion show of Inquirer Lifestyle, staged this year with Hana Shampoo and Champion Infinity.
Masters and Millennials. Three, four generations of Filipino fashion designers face off in the biggest edition yet of Inquirer Lifestyle’s Face-Off fashion series, to tackle one Filipino costume: the maria clara.
It was 1972 when I first met Bobby Caballero. Martial law was only a few months old, and I was barely 15, on a Christmas school break from La Salle Green Hills. Auggie Cordero took me to Nayong Pilipino that cool December night to assist him for a dress rehearsal for “Bagong Anyo,” Imelda Marcos’ fashion show meant to end all fashion shows.
Auggie Cordero creates the best gowns for Christmas partying. “His taste is elegant, his designs are classic yet youthful,” said Cris Albert in her Yuletide festooned flat.
It’s nice to help a bride if she’s willing to be helped,” said veteran designer Auggie Cordero, one of the designers in Inquirer Lifestyle and LOOK Magazine’s recent Face-Off bridal fashion show.
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