Fast fashion, the mass production of disposable clothing manufactured within a short period, cements the field as one of the most polluting industries in the world. ENVIRONMENTAL FASHIONISTA Benilde Fashion Design and Merchandising educator Roxoanne Bagano-Dizon Designer and entrepreneur...
Photos from WGSN Fashion designer and Benilde Fashion Design and Merchandising (FDM) educator Roxoanne Bagano-Dizon In the coming year, it’s time we move fashion forward. Fashion has always been a flexible form of art. Much like other mediums, its trends come and go at the snap of a finger or the...
Gentle and nurturing, the color of the year 2024 ushers in kindness and tenderness. Peach fuzz (PANTONE 13-1023), softly nestled between pink and orange, is centered on the human experience. Its all-embracing spirit enriches the mind, body, and soul, calls for a moment of stillness and...
MEET THE CHEF Lulu's Pie owner Paul Zamora Tonight is the night—Noche Buena awaits! But if you have yet to decide what to serve on the midnight table and you have chicken lying around, and ground pork, and maybe chorizo de bilbao lying around in the freezer, you might consider whipping up a...
The viral and sensational Chef RV Manabat, known for his millions of social media followers on Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram, the brains behind the self-named Chef RV Cafe in Biñan, Laguna, has launched his Christmas Recipe Collection, to include treats such as Chicken Ham, Blueberry...
MEET THE CHEF Sugarplum Pastries chef Lovely Jiao Just in time for thick of Christmas preps, Chef Lovely Jiao of Sugarplum Pastries serves up her Christmas Classics, featuring favorite holiday treats and sweets of all time. In so doing, she does a retrospective on how the past 14 years of...
LOOKING FLY FOR SIMBANG GABI Mga Kwento sa Misa De Gallo centers around modern Filipino streetwear that makes use of local handwoven textiles to encapsulate the tradition of Simbang Gabi Mga Kwento sa Misa De Gallo (Stories from the Dawn Mass) , a capsule collection of modern Filipino streetwear...
KEEPING TRADITIONS ALIVE Visual artist and Benilde School of Arts, Culture, and Performance (SACP) educator Carlito Camahalan Amalla Award-winning visual artist Carlito Camahalan Amalla, a member of the Agusan Manobo tribe, brought the rich heritage of the Manobo community to the 2023 Silk Roads...
GOLD AWARD Nabbing the top prize, Barangay 44 from Pasay's The Lamb of God, makes use of recycled plastic bottles, spoons, drinking straws, and twine In celebration of Christmas time, local constituents from various barangays in Pasay and Manila showcased their creativity and ingenuity in crafting...
MEET THE BAR EXPERT Benilde School of Hotel, Restaurant, and Institution Management (SHRIM) educator Gioseppe Racelis A mainstay served in bars the world over, the Cosmopolitan has cemented itself as a classic cocktail. It has further gained huge popularity in the 1990s due to the long-running HBO...
MEET THE DESIGNER De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Industrial Design alumna Ira Hisanan With drowning as a serious public issue, 23-year-old Filipino student Ira Hisanan has created men’s swimwear with a built-in floatation mechanism. Dubbed as Walrus, the design innovation took...
The Fissure Chair LIKHAYAN: Creatives Supporting Creatives , a core collection of furnishing projects which pay homage to the local Filipino artists, has opened to the general public at Ayala Malls, Manila Bay. The initiative supports the newly-promulgated Philippines Creatives Industries...
