Fashion industry fundraiser reaches P1M
The community truly banded together, but this effort is not unique–it’s happening everywhere in the Philippines.
December 8, 2013
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The community truly banded together, but this effort is not unique–it’s happening everywhere in the Philippines.
The annual Christmas Gala concert of the University of Santo Tomas ushers in the wonderful holiday season our country is known to celebrate with fervor. Held on the first Thursday of December, the event starts with the Christmas tree-lighting ceremony at the centuries-old campus grounds.
It’s not every day that you witness fashion’s pecking order shunned or egos set aside. But that’s exactly what emerged last Friday, when over 100 Filipino fashion designers banded together for a fundraiser show in aid of the Supertyphoon “Yolanda”-devastated Visayas.
When the biggest pop music acts banded together in 1985 to record “We are the World” to raise money for starving people in Africa, American producer Quincy Jones reportedly told them to “check your egos at the door.”
Hours before the fundraising fashion event, “Filipino Para sa Filipino” at SM Aura’s Samsung Hall last Friday, we asked designers what touched them the most about “Yolanda.” Their answers were heartbreaking and personal. Some teared up.
Directors Jackie C. Aquino with JCA Productions Robby Carmona with Saga Events Ogee Atos Apparel designers Fashion and Design Council of the Philippines Albert Andrada Happy
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.”
More than 100 Filipino fashion designers and models will stage “Filipino para sa Filipino,” a big fundraiser for the rehabilitation of the Visayas, which has been devastated by Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”
About 100 fashion designers, models will come together under the joint direction of Jackie Aquino and Robby Carmona to stage a fashion fundraiser for the devastated provinces of Leyte and Samar.
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