FOR THEIR graduation collection, students of Slim’s Fashion & Arts School were given this simple brief: to discover the 1960s...
For this year’s annual exhibit of student works, Slim’s students explored what could make them truly Filipino designers—and tapped into everything from history, culture and literature to ordinary things like local food and flowers.
Slim’s, SoFA Design Institute, De La Salle-College of St. Benilde and Fashion Institute of the Philippines will present the top collections of their students in a show titled “Face-Off 2016: A Cut Above the Rest” on Nov. 23 at Mega Fashion Hall at SM Megamall.
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.
When Slim’s Fashion & Arts School students were asked to come up with creations for their school’s annual exhibit, many...
(First of two parts) While collaborations between designers are common in fashion, it’s rare to come across a collaboration involving...
The Christmas spirit has finally hit me with so many tree-lighting festivities and charity bazaars in different hotels. After checking out the options for ornaments and color schemes, I have decided to make Paris as the theme of our décor.
To be You highlights seven standout pieces that aptly paid homage to the woman whose fashion school served as the training ground for noted designers like Joe Salazar, Cesar Gaupo, Michael Cinco, Albert Andrada.
(Second of two parts) While collaborations between designers are common in fashion, it’s rare to come across a collaboration involving...
As every fashionista worth her hot pants, miniskirt and go-go boots knows, the 60s was a unique and interesting decade that heralded such developments as women’s lib, the pill, advances in the civil rights movement, Youthquake, the Vietnam War and the first man on the moon.
