What you didn’t know about the ‘terno’–and no, it wasn’t Ramon Valera who invented it
What you didn’t know about the ‘terno’
What you didn’t know about the ‘terno’
From the Filipino artistry to credibility, Apec remains a showcase.
In the mid-1970s, a number of flower sellers set up shop in a residential area beside a bus terminal called Dangwa Tranco in Sampaloc, Manila. Almost 40 years after the
The SM Mall of Asia Arena, venue of the December 30 wedding reception of actors Dingdong Dantes and Marian (Rivera) Gracia, can accommodate as many as 16,000 for basketball matches and concerts. The challenge for the wedding production team led by creative director Noel Manapat and production designer Gino Gonzales was to make this cavernous location look intimate and elegant—and dramatic.
The Swatch + Art + Fashion must be the most unique, trailblazing style event of 2014 that was never planned. It must have been the result of creativity-inducing midnight vibes at the newly inaugurated Swatch + Swatch Center on Pasay Road.
The new Swatch+Swatch Center on Arnaiz Avenue, Makati, opens to the public on Nov. 5.
For this year’s annual exhibit of student works, Slim’s students explored what could make them truly Filipino designers—and tapped into everything from history, culture and literature to ordinary things like local food and flowers.
A magical forest, a handsome prince, under a blanket of a mystical starry night—these are not the images one usually associates with Pandora, that character in Greek mythology who unwittingly unleashed evil into the world.
What costume designer Gino Gonzales couldn’t do due to budget constraints, he more than made up for in terms of silhouettes and textures to produce neutral-colored Elizabethan-inspired costumes made of katsa (muslin), raffia, jute and sinamay for Dulaang UP’s staging of William Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure.”
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