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Dec 10, 2024 | 
vogue.ph | Patricia Villoria
Picture a scene from a film that goes like this: In an old, storied house, you find a set of winding stairs hidden behind its walls. Going up the flights, the place opens up into a warm attic with wooden furniture, a pitched roof, and, interestingly, a Rita Nazareno-designed rattan light shade hanging over the table. A space can be whatever you want it to be, and for JJ Acuña, owner of JJ Acuña/Bespoke Studio, it’s where stories come to life.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
vogue.ph | Patricia Villoria |Dom Pamatmat
“People are always asking me what Fifth Wall is,” Madge Reyes says, in the weeks building up to the festival. “Even I don’t know how to exactly describe it; it’s always changing.”It has been five years since FIFTH WALL Fest has launched and still, it escapes a singular definition. What began as a dance film festival born from Reyes’ passions has become an unconventional venue for all forms of art that explore movement.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
vogue.ph | Patricia Villoria |Gabriel Nivera
At the Sibutu island of Tawi-tawi, the young girls keep track of the moon’s phases for delicious reasons. Some locals might say that back in the 80s, when TV and phones were not widely available, neighbors would pop their heads into each other’s homes asking, “Is it the full moon already?” “Has it been 14 nights?”The full moon, which comes two weeks after every new moon, spells the season for harvesting sea urchins, a practice common across the Sulu archipelago.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
vogue.ph | Patricia Villoria
A cultural showcase awaits this year’s Paris Fashion Week, as Vogue Philippines hosts a dinner event celebrating Filipino fashion and creativity on the global stage. This September, eyes are on the Palais Galliera, where the opening of the “Vogue Threads: Weaving Philippine Culture Into The World” exhibition will reside.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
vogue.ph | Patricia Villoria |Artu Nepomuceno
Philippine cinema pioneer Luis Nepomuceno believed that “in order to be able to tell a story with a thousand images, you have to be able to tell a story with a single image.”The famed film producer was known for his love for the craft of storytelling and the process that comes with it. Throughout his life, he passed down his filmmaking knowledge to his children and grandchildren.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
vogue.ph | Patricia Villoria |Celine Lagundi
Sometimes, it’s literal: on the night she won the prestigious James Beard award, Abi Balingit wore an octopus hat by artist Rae Swon. “That was the main conversation piece, honestly, besides the little medal,” she humorously recalls. Albeit a little subtler than her tentacled fascinator, she also wore the colors of her book, Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed, glowing in hues of green and fuchsia for the event.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
vogue.ph | Patricia Villoria
Ms. Philippines, with the name calligraphed on the sash over their shoulders, gazes over their audience in a pageant. It is a gaze with soft eyes, set on a strong set of shoulders, while wearing a bejeweled gown and a stack of beaded necklaces. There is unmistakable joy welling up in their eyes, as they face their crowning moment. This is one of the scenes that struck artist Ginoe after discovering a stack of vintage photographs that showed people in what we today would describe as drag.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
vogue.ph | Patricia Villoria
At the slipper-shaped Kopiat Island, the sun sets over the mountains on one side, and it rises from the gulf on the other. Its breathtaking vista comes with the well-tended waters and greenery within the island, making it an idyllic location for Silverlens Gallery to open their Lubi Island Art Residency. Art blends in with nature at the Dusit Lubi Plantation Resort.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
vogue.ph | Patricia Villoria |Artu Nepomuceno
On slow days, Pilgrim plays a mix of soul, funk, and a bit of jazz through the speakers. In the open kitchen, the laidback twang of Vulfpeck’s strings serves as a conductor for the hot plates sailing out into the dining area. Saturday is one of these slow days by the restaurant’s standards: tables become vacant in the restaurant at times—but not for too long. Pilgrim has become a breakout star in the community of Buda (the border of Bukidnon and Davao) for the past two years.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
vogue.ph | Patricia Villoria
Clouds never settle over open seas. It needs the surface of land large enough, like a small island, for the elements to allow the clouds to stay put a little while longer. Our tour guide, Errold Bayona, rattles off scientific facts such as these easily on the car ride to the Santa Cruz Islands of Zamboanga City, known all over the world for their pink sand.
