MISS UNIVERSE PHILIPPINES 2024 Chelsea Manalo Some women are born into history, others carve their names into it. Chelsea Manalo, Miss Universe Philippines 2024, stands among the latter. The first Filipina of African-American descent to represent the country on the Miss Universe stage, she...
Since its inception in 2020, the Miss Universe Philippines pageant has been on a mission to put Filipino culture on the international stage. Apart from its pageant activities, charity partnerships, and costume presentations, the local franchise of the Miss Universe contest has been using fashion as...
These days, beauty pageants aren’t just a platform for women to share their stories and advocacies, it has now become a stage where fashion creatives are also celebrated. A testament to that is the recently concluded Miss Universe Philippines 2024. For the evening gown segment of its coronation...
Before she became Miss Universe in 2022, R’Bonney Gabriel was first a fashion designer. She aimed to celebrate style in a more eco-friendly sense. Though years have passed since she won the crown, the Fil-Am beauty queen continues to use fashion as a tool for storytelling. A testament to that is...
A 22-year-old vendor-turned-athlete was crowned Miss Iloilo 2024. Alexie Mae Caimoso Brooks, an American-Filipino born in Lebanon but raised in Leon, Iloilo, dedicated her win to her grandma. “Kasi everything that I do right now or everything that I have ever done is all for her,” she told...
With only weeks away before Miss Universe 2023 takes place in El Salvador, the Philippines’ representative, Michelle Dee, has been sharing glimpses of her training and preparations for the competition. One of her recent content releases is a fashion editorial featuring dainty jewelry pieces...
Current Miss Universe titleholder Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu will visit Manila soon. She is one of the special guests at the Miss Universe Philippines' finals night to be held at the SM Mall of Asia Arena on April 30. The MUPH organization announced this via social media, noting it is "A...
Another international beauty queen has joined the bandwagon in praising newly crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2020 Rabiya Mateo of Iloilo. "I love the winner! She's beautiful! She looks like my daughter (Isabelle Daza). She's super ganda," said Miss Universe 1969 Gloria Diaz, when asked about her...
