Helen calls it ‘luck’; friends call it untiring service
Honorary Consul for Angola Helen Ong disdains artifice and prefers to devote her time and resources to artists and the less privileged.
Honorary Consul for Angola Helen Ong disdains artifice and prefers to devote her time and resources to artists and the less privileged.
People said goodbye to Mandarin Oriental Manila last week as if they were losing a true love. In truth, perhaps they were.
The best-kept secret about Hands On Manila’s (HOM) Vintage Bazaar happening tomorrow at Rockwell Tent must be a set of bespoke clothes created by fashion legends Pitoy Moreno and Aureo Alonzo for society icon and philanthropist Imelda Ongsiako Cojuangco.
“The sphinx speaks,” said my front-row seatmate Joy Onglatco. She was referring to Imelda Cojuangco, looking wonderfully larger than life onscreen during the video tribute that preceded Criselda Lontok’s fashion show at the Fairmont Ballroom last Monday night.
The press fell into a hush when philanthropist Imelda O. Cojuangco teetered into the Makati Shangri-La function room. Perennially sylph-like, she came in her signature style, clad in a white off-the-shoulder dress adorned with lace cutwork and a flounced hemline, matched with pearl jewelry.
From the six images that initially made up the first Marian procession of the Cofradia de la Inmaculada Concepcion in December, 1980, the procession has grown through the years.
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