Bench Fashion Week 2018 Archives

Turning Japanese

Whether or not they chose to deliberately channel various Japanese influences, the three recent winners in this year’s Bench Design Awards – Ched Dalogaog, Otto Sacramento and Renz Reyes – produced off-kilter yet wearable collections that made sense. By Alex Y. Vergara Was it deliberate or purely coincidental? And how…

Fun, fabulous, fearless

Although influences from two of the most showy decades in fashion history seemed to loom heavily on his work, Dennis Lustico says his main inspiration for his latest collection for Bench Fashion Week 2018 was a flamboyant character played by actress Tilda Swinton in Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”…

Joey Samson explores new approaches to tailoring at Bench Fashion Week

PeopleAsia caught Days 2 and 3 of Bench’s recent fashion week at Bench Tower’s Playground at the Fort. Leading designer Joey Samson capped off the three-day event with a 25-piece collection that highlighted his continuing love affair with tailoring and various suiting materials. The collection was vintage Samson in terms…