With her porcelain features and delicate hands, it’s hard to imagine Michelline Syjuco wielding a blow torch or hammering brass sheets. The artist, in fact, has been making jewelry and sculptures by hand for close to 10 years.
Pastel-hued flowers bloom on artist Michelline Syjuco’s paintings. These delicate blooms appear to be carried by swirls and mini tornadoes, a lightness borne out of chaos.
The country’s leading accessories designers will auction off their works during “Filipino Para sa Filipino,” the mega-fundraiser for the rehabilitation of the Visayas, which has been devastated by Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”
A WINE tasting at Bibendum means more than just sampling a selection of whites, reds, rosés and sparklings. It always turns out to be a great party, with much clinking of goblets.
My friend, businesswoman Mags Cue, travels around the world to personally source the accessories and other fashion items for her 22 Mags stores nationwide.
The recent opening of the “ArtWearAble” exhibit at Yuchengco Museum proved that man was no longer “just a subject but a canvas for contemporary artists.”
More and more, Manila’s merry matronas and mod millennials are modelling the statement necklace. Local accessory designers are led by Carissa Evangelista, Wynn Wynn Ong, Gemma Suzara and Michelline Syjuco.
When you talk of fine jewelry, are spikes, horns, pegs, gears and clamps the things that come to mind? They sound more like tools from a torture chamber, rather than material for a delicate set of cuffs and earrings.
Michelline Syjuco will once again represent the country at the prestigious Maison et Objet in Paris where she will be the official delegate of the Philippines to Paris Design Week.
