Senator apologizes to designer
What does a fashion designer’s client do when her dress lands her on the worst-dressed list as spectacularly as Sen. Nancy Binay did at the President’s State of the Nation Address (Sona)?
August 1, 2014
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What does a fashion designer’s client do when her dress lands her on the worst-dressed list as spectacularly as Sen. Nancy Binay did at the President’s State of the Nation Address (Sona)?
As we look around the Philippines, we are always plagued with negative thoughts. We complain about traffic, poverty, pollution and corruption. We bring these destructive thoughts with us wherever we go, and become a part of us.
Dionisia “Mommy D” Pacquiao caused such a huge commotion on the red carpet at the House of Representatives before President Aquino’s annual speech that journalists were herded out after she left.
Hate her or loathe her, you do love to make fun of her.
Why, is it more masa-sensitive to be hiding mansions and ill-gotten properties than to wear a glam terno?” a fashionista kibitzer asked, in reaction to a legislator’s comment that a dress-to-the-hilt event like President Aquino’s State of the Nation (Sona) address was irrelevant and insensitive to the times.
Based on online comments generated by an earlier front-page story that I wrote on the much-awaited annual fashion showdown that preceded President Aquino’s State of the Nation address Monday afternoon, not a few readers were appalled at the extent some VIPs, especially the women, would go just to grab the public’s attention.
Vice President Jejomar Binay and his “political dynasty” all but floated on the red carpet. Neophyte Sen. Bam Aquino came wearing his “lucky barong,” while veteran Sen. Loren Legarda showed up in a hand-me-down.
Year in and year out, even before the President makes his State of the Nation Address, lawmakers and their significant others’ SONA finery also make it to the news.
Bayan Muna Partly-list representatives Teddy Casiño and Neri Colmenares on Monday wore personalized barongs to call for the inclusion of their respective advocacies during President Benigno Aquino III’s third State of the Nation Address.
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