Marge C. Enriquez

Jan 16, 2025 | plus.inquirer.net | Marge C. Enriquez

Ditta Sandico, pioneer of modern Filipiniana, is celebrating 40 years in the industry. She traces her roots to the mountains of Bulalacao, Mindoro Oriental, where her passion for sustainable fashion was stirred. As a teen in the ’70s, Sandico spent summers with her father, cattle rancher Fernando Hizon-Sandico, who developed agricultural lands. These trips, filled with immersion into the natural world and encounters with the Mangyan tribe, the Hanunoos, deeply influenced her.

Jan 15, 2025 | plus.inquirer.net | Marge C. Enriquez

As a young boy watching his grandmother cook in Angeles, Pampanga, Jose Antonio Miguel Melchor—Jam to friends—dreamed of running a restaurant and traveling the world. Decades later, he has not only achieved these dreams, but has surpassed them. He is a restaurateur, a former private chef to the US ambassador, an educator, and a culinary envoy. Beyond his accomplishments, Melchor has become a staunch advocate of Filipino cuisine.

Jan 14, 2025 | plus.inquirer.net | Marge C. Enriquez

Moonlight bathes the languid waters, surrounded by reeds and abstracted water lilies. The stark contrast of black and white, with dragged strokes of white highlighting the scene, captures the mood outside the lodging of Koyasan, one of Japan’s holiest sites. In another painting, daytime is expressed through a background of golden orange, with simplified forms of lily leaves floating on the water and pine tree needles.

Dec 11, 2024 | thediarist.ph | Marge C. Enriquez |Alvin Alcantara

Broadcaster Karen Davila, an early bird at Renz Reyes’ three-day solo pop-up at Comme Ci, snapped up the black denim Core Vest, a structured waistcoat with extended sleeves, dangling straps, contrasting V-stripes, and linear stitching. The next day, she confidently wore it at Vogue Threads Manila. Reyes considers the Core Vest one of his most popular styles under his namesake label.

Dec 1, 2024 | thediarist.ph | Marge C. Enriquez |Alvin Alcantara

In the late ’80s, Ponce Veridiano, in his 20s, took his first foreign trip, to Hong Kong, to do the  landscape of the home of film mogul Run Run Shaw. Veridiano was tapped by prominent architect and National Artist to-be Francisco “Bobby” Mañosa, who was building Shaw’s residence in Kowloon. One evening, Shaw invited his Filipino team to dinner at Table 88, the restaurant that had been repurposed from a police station. “It was decorated with old wood and boulders.