Strangely familiar, as if dimly remembered from some long-forgotten dream. Or a past life.
Mark Higgins designs costumes for 'The Firebird' ballet
She’s the last. They’re all gone,” Mark Higgins whispered to me mournfully at the door of the Heritage chapel, as he was coming in and I was going out.
The four millennial fashion designers-in-the-making are part of the generation that Mark Lewis Higgins, co-author of “Fashionable Filipinas: An Evolution of the Philippine National Dress, 1860-1960,” says “has no idea what the terno is,” given the gap in history where, post-Marcos era, there seemed to have been an unwritten boycott on the national dress that had been long associated with the dictator’s flamboyant first lady.
Because Christmas is essentially for children, renowned brand OshKosh B’gosh (OKB) has provided wardrobe staples for kids to celebrate the...
Some expressed doubt if today’s women would wear a terno to an event. Turned out, they did. Women in terno—vintage,...
The works of Lex Marcos, Raven Ong, Rollie de Leon, Mark Higgins and Mio Infante testify to the depth, diversity and sophistication of Philippine theater design
What is British bespoke tailoring, and how does it compare with existing forms of tailoring in the Philippines? How can local designers apply this centuries-old tradition of making men’s wear not only for three-piece suits, but also for the barong?
