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Baguio and Beyond: Fresh Fashion Framed by Cordillera Cool

2 months ago | vogue.ph | Pam Quiñones |David Milan |Chelsea Sarabia |Borgy Angeles

From a viewpoint at Mirador Heritage and Eco Park in Baguio, the sun rises over crests of colored rooftops, half-shaded by the line of the mountains. Listen closely, and you’ll hear the low hum of a city bustling with life, textured by the whir of the wind. Baguio glows from this perspective. Color follows you through its streets. In the creative capital, craft is alive in vibrant city markets, electric tapestries from Narda’s, and flower farms that extend to the horizon.
The Carl Jan Cruz Vanity Bag Can Hold Your Essentials-And Your Obsessions, Too

Dec 12, 2024 | vogue.ph | Chelsea Sarabia

Team Carl Jan Cruz keeps a reference library within one of the rooms in their three-story atelier. Images are neatly lined across nearly floor-to-ceiling mood boards, tacked on with handwritten notes on the motifs that are presently inspiring them: abstract fabric manipulation, lacework, archival fashion. There are the city landmarks—vintage photos of Divisoria and the First United Building in Escolta, bustling with the same life that weaves through them to this day.
Martin Bautista Sees A Way Forward for Filipino Fashion

Nov 20, 2024 | vogue.ph | Chelsea Sarabia |Kim Santos

“Despite a lot of the challenges our creatives go through, we still find a way to forge something beautiful and I think it’s what makes our output so unique and special. There is always a hunger and longing for something beautiful.” “Despite a lot of the challenges our creatives go through, we still find a way to forge something beautiful and I think it’s what makes our output so unique and special.
Sarai Believes that Music Is Its Own Kind of Language

Nov 18, 2024 | vogue.ph | Greg Swales |Chelsea Sarabia

Sarai’s earliest memory is of herself dancing. Picture her at three or four years old, bopping along to salsa and merengue with her parents in their Philadelphia home. When the mood suddenly shifted—first to ’80s classic rock, then to jazz, and another genre, and another genre—she would continue swaying, enveloped by pure sound. This scene is how she would describe the way she grew into music and, subsequently, how she found her sound.
Miss Universe 2024 Debuts Its First Filipino-Crafted Crown

Nov 13, 2024 | vogue.ph | Chelsea Sarabia

To trace the inception of a Jewelmer piece is to follow a long string of meticulous acts. From the long hours put into collection—wherein a majority of women farm managers lead a community of divers, pearl farmers, and marine biologists—to a screening process where only the top 2% of harvest are brought to the hands that make, a single golden South Sea pearl could be the result of a decade’s worth of dedicated work.
A Look Inside Lulu Tan-Gan’s “Farm to Fashion” Show

Nov 1, 2024 | vogue.ph | Chelsea Sarabia |Makie Cruz

If you do the math, the collection Lulu Tan-Gan presented at the Red Charity Gala took 17 years in the making. The Piña and silks she used are remnants of past work, stored in the bins that piled high in her atelier throughout her career. They finally see light in this collection, transformed into the evocations of petals and rosettes seen on the runway.
Yabu Pushelberg on Their First Project in the Philippines

Nov 1, 2024 | vogue.ph | Chelsea Sarabia

Ask multidisciplinary designers Glenn Pushelberg and George Yabu about how they would define luxury within a space, and they would tell you about a trait that isn’t visible to the eye. Pushelberg brings up their beach house in Montauk, New York, not to talk about any of the elements that fill the space but how the floors have developed a roughness over time. “I love being barefoot there because you feel the wood,” he muses.
The Latest Trends Play on Illusion Dressing

Oct 29, 2024 | vogue.ph | Neil De Guzman |Chelsea Sarabia |Borgy Angeles

It’s all an illusion; this season’s offerings are themed to new ways of seeing. Textures are meant to melt into the earth, and soft-structured silhouettes meet a gentle unraveling. This month, explore old classics that take to fabric manipulation, feathers, and wild things, accessorized with metals that sprout, bubble up, and curve. As the summer heat slips into endless overcast skies, it might be time to opt for draped layers that flow down the frame in loose, languid lines.
Martin Bautista Closed BYS Fashion Week with His First Solo Show

Oct 18, 2024 | vogue.ph | Chelsea Sarabia |Makie Cruz

Martin Bautista wanted to keep things casual. The collection he presented on Sunday to close BYS Fashion Week marked his first solo show in his 17 years as a designer, but he didn’t want to approach it by piling on the extravagance just for the sake of it. As with any show, he would rather keep to his principles. “The theatricality, it’s not really my thing,” Martin reflects, talking to Vogue over the phone the day after.
Dennis Lustico Gives Vogue an Intimate Look Into His Latest Collection

Oct 11, 2024 | vogue.ph | Ticia Almazan |Chelsea Sarabia

There was a chance that the show would be postponed a second time. On October third, just as Dennis Lustico’s team was putting the finishing touches on the part-indoor, part-outdoor runway, it began to pour. “It’s insane,” said digital associate editor Chelsea Sarabia from backstage, exactly two hours before the show. Thunder rumbled, heavy raindrops fell on the pavement, and mud had begun to splatter on the catwalk. The team fell into a panic. But as the adage goes, the show must go on.