How to be smart and sensible about self-care
Invited to talk about self-care on the Unlock Philippines podcast, I discussed how the lockdown might have driven us to try out…
Once a grim neighborhood, 2680 F.B. Harrison, the Pasay compound near an abandoned badminton court, has become an artistic hotbed ever since it was occupied by creative souls.
Jojie Lloren presents his fashion as art at the CCP
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.
Ok, Ok, it’s that time of year when I “toot my own horn” again. But Kaye Tiñga and I were just overwhelmed with the Red Charity Gala this year.
Since winning the Philippine Young Designers Competition and the Concours International des Jeunes Createurs de Mode in Paris, both in 1998, and playing his role as a mentor in “Project Runway Philippines,” Jojie Lloren’s rise to prominence has been unstoppable.
Stepping into The Henry Hotel Manila is like traveling back in time. More specifically, back to postwar Manila, 1948, where everything was hopeful, new and held much promise.
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.
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.
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.
Designer Jesus “Jojie” Lloren is racing against time. With less than three weeks before the Red Charity Gala on Oct. 18 at Makati Shangri-La’s Rizal Ballroom, he still has 10 dresses to finish.
