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Ternocon 2024: Jojie Lloren, Cary Santiago and Jaggy Glarino wear their hearts on their sleeves

BY JOSE PAOLO S. DELA CRUZ The three featured designers served up a fashion revolution with their exquisite takes on the terno — adding both heart and innovation to the already iconic butterfly sleeve. “Kasarinlan, Kultura, Kasuotan.” These dramatic words effectively summed up what this year’s Ternocon show is all…

Safe & stylish: Wacoal opens store in Okada Manila

Thanks to its chic, well-stocked and newly opened boutique, Wacoal enables women to find the right intimate apparel for them in a safe and fashionable environment. Wacoal Okada Manila Inside Wacoal Okada Manila, one would find a vast array of classics like the popular Bandeau and Gococi, as well as…

Locked down, but hopeful and fully loaded with ideas

Binge-watching Netflix was just a suggestion. As more and more people are finding out, there are so many other more productive and creative ways to while the minutes and hours away while on lockdown. By ALEX Y. VERGARA When a certain media personality got more than his share of flak…

Mark Bumgarner debuts at Bench Fashion Week with RTW collection for eponymous label

By Alex Y. Vergara Mark Bumgarner’s debut collection as an RTW designer, including accessories such as bags, shoes and jewelry pieces, shared the ramp with Kashieca’s latest collection worn by some of the country’s most iconic models on Day Two of the recently concluded Bench Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2019 at…