To feed the market’s insatiable appetite for accessories, Dennis Lustico is producing his first collection of evening bags using such materials as silk fringes and Lucite.
Four of the country’s top fashion designers will stage a show dubbed simply as “Salon.”
It wasn’t snow but it might as well have been a fresh pile of flurry, as guests in high heels tottered on the pristine shag carpeting at The Peninsula Manila’s Rigodon Ballroom. The carpet was laid out for the first-ever “Salon” show of Cesar Gaupo, Jojie Lloren, Dennis Lustico and Lulu Tan-Gan.
In order to bring Philippine products closer to their buyers, the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (Citem), the export marketing arm of the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), brought Fashion Philippines to Fashion Access Hong Kong 2013 last Sept. 25-27 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.
The country’s leading accessories designers will auction off their works during “Filipino Para sa Filipino,” the mega-fundraiser for the rehabilitation of the Visayas, which has been devastated by Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”
Amid the celebrity-driven, “selfie” nature of contemporary fashion, the couture purists want a breath of fresh air, where inspiration thrives, execution is exceptional, and imagination runs unbounded by commercialism and hype.
It’s that time of year again, palangga, when the hot island of Boracay sizzles even more with the Century Tuna Superbods Super Challenge 2014, the grand finals of which was held recently at the Pearl of the Pacific.
Four of the country’s leading designers stayed true to their roots while venturing beyond their comfort zones to produce fashion-forward pieces that were wearable and practical, but far from ordinary and predictable.
Four of the country’s top fashion designers, the creative Lulu Tan-Gan, classy Dennis Lustico, society’s darling Cesar Gaupo and visionary Joey Samson gave an unforgettable visual experience as they presented their latest collections, dahlings, in Salon 2014 that had live music provided by modern independent vocalists.
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.
