On Monday, May 6, “Love, the Philippines,” a 90-square-meter booth set up by the Tourism Promotions Board (TPB) Philippines, opened in a simple ceremony at the 31st Arabian Travel Market (ATM), the biggest travel fair in the Middle East, this year hosted by Dubai on the theme “Empowering...
Yes, you can—and “you’re gonna,” as The Beatles crooned back in ’69—and, this season, although rain has appeared on the horizon over Manila, which has endured the worst of summer temperatures in the last few weeks, the hottest bags from the summer 2024 designer runways of the fashion...
RETRO BEAUTY. Rosanna's new store takes inspiration from the bold styles of the '70s I don’t k now how designer Rosanna Ocampo does it, but she’s a marketing genius whose genius is in not doing any marketing at all, at least as far as appearances go. She just lives her life. Rosanna needs no...
Once upon a time a path less traveled, Cantabria on the north coast of Spain is drawing more and more attention, especially from foodies, across the world. ¿Cómo no? Bordered on the north by the Bay of Biscay, on the east by Basque Country, on the south by Castile- León, and on the west by the...
WELCOME ALL Guests visit Le Monde d'Hermés kiosk What I hope the traveling kiosk of Le Monde d’Hermès accomplished while it did its run in Manila, at the courtyard of the Ayala Triangle Gardens, from April 26 to 28, was an activation of the lust for park life in a country so blessed with...
SA KABILA NG TABING LAMANG SA PANAHONG ITO / WAITING JUST BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF THIS AGE , Exhibition of the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia (Photo by Andrea D’Altoe) Central to the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition...
Something ethereal in a table long enough for 45 hungry guests set on an autumnal carpet of fallen leaves beneath a canopy of forest trees, a scene worthy of the FrenchVietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung’s culinary drama The Taste of Things, starring Benoît Magimel and Juliette Binoche, who...
“Why’d you wait this long to make Margarita happen,” I asked Margarita Forés, as we sat down for after-dinner drinks at Lusso where, over the iconic dishes of her 37-year-long career, she announced her latest move—Margarita, her signature restaurant that’s to be launched later this year....
A PERFECT GETAWAY. Shangri-la Mactan offers 530 immaculate guest rooms and suites It was a hot ticket to paradise, the brothers Lichaytoo’s “Reservations in Paradise,” a yearly affair that has, for the second year in a row, moved to Shangri-La Mactan, thanks to its general manager Dave...
All of Greece is a monument to the past, an ancient civilization, in which originated many of what we would consider modern everyday things, like central heating, bridges, competitive sports, architecture, and of course philosophy. Ambassador Ioannis Pediotis and Secretary Jaime Bautista In fact,...
Trust Ben Chan to spot talent, even if it’s 8,496.07 miles (13,673.10 kilometers) away. In 2019, two years before his surprise appointment as senior vice president of design at Calvin Klein, Latino designer Willy Chavarria, who had, decades before then, been making waves in American mass-market...
I have a book club, The Very Extra Book Club, and I consider it a big part of my life. Ours is really very extra. We take pains to make it so, which is probably why the pandemic really threw a monkey wrench in our otherwise regular plans. For one the pandemic made us a little more possessive of our...
