Pearls were the first real jewelry I ever had. Before I evolved into an obsessive accessory junkie, I used to wear only a strand of pearls and simple earrings.
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.
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.
Nancy Binay to wear Randy Ortiz anew in Sona 2015. Who else will wear what?
Every season, hundreds of designers from all over the world flock to the French capital to present their collections, with hopes to be picked by international buyers, gain notice by editors, or at least make a mark in the grand fashion scheme of things.
My whole family doesn’t understand what I see in them,” says Margarita Fores, as she lovingly looks over her litter of cat rescues, each having taken over a piece of furniture in the chef-restaurateur’s Makati home, eyeing the strangers—this writer and the photographer—with much suspicion.
A potentially controversial thought crossed my mind as I watched the solo collection of Joey Samson on the last day of Bench Fashion Week at around this time last year—a thought I didn’t even dare share with Ben Chan who was seated beside me.
Time was when Filipino fashion designers perennially complained about the lack of fabrics, and how the absence of a local textile industry would sound the death knell for the Philippine fashion industry.
Business mogul Ben Chan has long championed Philippine design even while introducing Filipinos to imported apparel, home brands and dining concepts.
