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A night of Pinoy fashion and cultural exchanges in New York

Designers Albert Andrada, Amir Sali and Sophia Manimbo top bill “Perla del Mar de Oriente,” one of the first big Filipino-produced fashion shows to be staged abroad during the pandemic. By Alex Y. Vergara Have we started to transition into the so-called “better normal”? It would most likely depend on…

Philippine fashion icon Criselda Lontok passes on

Criselda Lontok, the fashion designer best known for her eponymous label at Rustan's, dies at 81. Criselda Lontok / Photography by Sara Black In a 2013 interview for PeopleAsia, Criselda, who was then one of the magazine’s “People of the Year” awardees, gave readers a glimpse of how she evolved…

The best of Philippine fashion at Manila Fashion Festival 2021

Life, as does fashion, always finds a way. Not a few people may have postponed their shopping sprees and visits to their favorite designers these days, as they spend most of their time working from home. But that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped dreaming of one day slipping into that fabulous…

Ito Curata: Everyone’s BFF

By Alex Y. Vergara Some people are an acquired taste whose goodness grows on you over time. Fashion designer Ito Curata wasn’t one of them. He was one rare fellow whom you tended to like and gravitate to the minute you meet him. From his warm smile down to his…

Veteran designer redefines the “Randy O.” man and woman for today’s Filipinos

Randy Ortiz marks 30 years in the fashion biz with a 75-piece collection that reaffirms his ability to effortlessly distill trends and tap into the zeitgeist. By Alex Y. Vergara After Rajo Laurel marked his 25th year with a gala show last October, it was Randy Ortiz’s turn to show…

Rajo’s 7,641 inspirations

Yes, that’s the latest number of islands that now reportedly make up the Philippine archipelago from which Rajo Laurel, Red Charity Gala’s latest featured designer, drew inspiration from. And he backed this up by tapping the country’s weavers and making them develop new and breathtakingly beautiful fabrics. Admirable as it…

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…

Catch the last day of Globe Telecom’s stylefestph today

Get ready to strut your style as Globe Telecom, in partnership with SAGA Events Inc. present stylefestph, a three-day fashion and beauty festival, which is now on its last day today, September 9. You can still catch today's shows at the Grand Hyatt Manila's grand ballroom in Taguig: the fall-winter…

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.”…

Criselda Lontok celebrates 35 years in fashion

Prominent women such as Zelda Kienle, Frannie Jacinto, Tessa Prieto-Valdes, Linda Ley, Rissa Mananquil-Trillo and Marivic Vazquez, among others, show their love for Criselda by joining professional models on the ramp to model the designer's 2018 holiday collection. An in-house staple of Rustan's for more than three decades now, the…