Bodyshots X 2013 Crowns Top Models at Resorts World

The Philippine Fashion industry welcomes two more names to its roster as the latest pair of up and coming models were crowned during the grand finals of Bodyshots X 2013 Model Search Philippines held last June 27 at Resorts World Manila’s Newport Performing Arts Theater.

After a five-year hiatus, the prestigious modeling search again made waves when it chose Ariane Gargonio and Cedric Evan Vergonia from a field of 15 female and 15 male budding models. “It’s great. I’ve always dreamt of having a career in modeling and this is it. Bodyshots is big exposure for all of us,” Gargonio shares.

Since its inception by the Fashion Designers Association of the Philippines (FDAP) in 1986, the competition has been a major catalyst in launching the careers of many of today’s renowned celebrities including Bodyshots alumni Eric Quizon, John Estrada, Marina Benipayo, Wilma Doesnt, Zanjoe Marudo, Hayden Kho, Joan Bitagcol, Rachel Soriano, Lucia Santiago and Francine Prieto, to name a few.

Continuing to raise the bar of the Philippine fashion industry, Bodyshots aims to discover young and promising professional modeling talents with the ultimate goal of establishing the Philippines as Asia’s foremost source of fashion models.

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SM City Bacoor Jeans Festival Fashion Show

Get Your Jeans On as SM City Bacoor and other SM Supermalls celebrates Jeans Month this July. Celebrate Philippine Fashion that never goes out of style. Up to 50% off discount on selected jeans brands with additional 10% discount vouchers on your next purchase. Visit SM Supermalls Jeans Festival from July 12-31, 2013 and check the hottest jeans trends!

To know more about SM Jeans Festival, hashtag #GetYourJeansOn and follow @smsupermalls on Instagram and @smsupermalls on Twitter and like SM Supermalls on Facebook.  For photo coverage of thw event, visit Event Lover’s Hideout in Facebook.

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SONA 2013: Philippine Fashion Collides with Politics

It’s the national equivalent of a Hollywood red carpet event: that time of the year when fashion designers and now, fashion stylists, spend sleepless nights preparing for that unforgettable outfit. Call it the SONA fashion show, that once a year happening where Politicians and celebrities are expected to make a fashion statement.

This year's State of the Nation Address (SONA) that was held last Monday 23 July, 2013 afternoon at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City. The dress code at the Batasang Pambansa for the SONA is quite tricky—there are only so many fashionable ways to wear the barong, baro’t saya, Filipiniana, and Maria Clara while still keeping to the formality of the event. Despite the emergence of new designs each year, the classic terno (primarily composed of a blouse, long skirt and a shawl) remains a mainstay in the so-called SONA red carpet of Philippine Fashion. Check out the following photos taken at the SONA 2013.

photo credits: Interaksyon

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Parisian Fashion Trade Shows: BIJORHCA and Who’s Next Featured Philippine Fashion Designs

Several Philippine Fashion designers were featured in two Parisian fashion trade shows - BIJORHCA and Who’s Next- on July 6 to 9 in Porte de Versailles.

BIJORHCA is the annual fine and fashion jewelry show in Paris featuring over 450 designers of fine and fashion jewelry from around the world. It is staged in conjunction with other fashion trade shows such as Who's Next.

Held twice a year in January and July, Who’s Next is the mega exhibition of the fashion industry in France which features the latest trends in men and women’s fashion and accessories.

Joining these trade fairs are Philippine brands Joanique (www.joanique.com). Mele + Marie (www.molemarie.com), Marjorie Renner (www.mformarjorie.com) and Mika & Gela (www.mikaandqela.com).

Other Philippine exhibitors include Blue Planet, Inc. (www.blueplanetdesiqns.net), ABS International Corporation and Unijel International Trading, Inc. (DFA)

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Philippine Fashion Week in Barcelona Showcased Filipino Designer’s Creations

The Philippine Honorary Consul General in Barcelona, in close coordination with Filipino community organizations, Unified Bicolanos in Barcelona, the Asociacion Bisayan ug Mindanaoan en España, Barcelona Exposure Club, Samahang Ilokano-Kabagis, and Unidad Sonrisa de Asia, organized a Philippine Fashion Week in Barcelona from June  21 to 29. 

The highlights of Philippine Fashion Week were the fashion shows of Mr. Bing Cristobal, one of the Philippines´ prime fashion designer and celebrity fashion stylist, having dressed the country´s top artists and beauty queens. Mr. Cristobal´s Pre-Show, which was held at the Philippines Club on June 21, opened the week-long fashion event, with the audience catching a glimpse of Cristobal´s 40 piece evening and Filipiniana collection.  

His Filipiniana collection, which consisted of 22 traditional and modern Filipinianas, was featured during the fashion show at Casa Asia Barcelona on June 22.  Present during the fashion show were Casa Asia Director General Jose Ramon Moreno and Philippine Honorary Consul General in Barcelona Jordi M. Puig.

Casa Asia, whose goal is to further develop and strengthen Spain´s cultural, economic, and political relation with Asian countries, forms part of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

The main highlight of the week-long fashion event was the Gala Dinner organized to showcase Mr. Cristobal´s glamorous creations on June 22 at Barcelona Catalonia Hotel.  All those who participated in the show were Barcelona-based Filipino models.  The event was attended by Minister and Consul General Catalino R. Dilem, Jr. and several leaders of the Filipino community in Barcelona. 

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Christina Aguilera Wearing Michael Cinco Creation

American singer Christina Aguilera was seen wearing a Philippine Fashion Designer creation for the fifth season premiere of “The Voice,” which will air in the United States in September.

Photo from Michael Cinco's Instagram page

Dubai-based Filipino designer Michael Cinco uploaded photos of Aguilera wearing his black long-sleeved dress with Swarovski crystals on Instagram on Monday.

The dress, according to Cinco, was part of his collection in last May’s Philippine Fashion Week, which was also attended by “Project Runway” judge Nina Garcia.

“CHRISTINA AGUILERA wears a couture dress from my Philippine Fashion Week collection… Love it love it love it,” the designer wrote as a caption for the second set of photos, which has garnered over 350 “likes” as of writing.

Aguilera is one of the judges of “The Voice,” which has Lea Salonga, Bamboo, Sarah Geronimo and apl.de.ap as its local counterparts.

Early this year, pop star Lady Gaga was seen wearing a Cinco-designed black gown with a mesh neckline and sleeves embellished with crystals and beads to a charity event organized by the Chicago Bulls basketball team.

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Filipino Fashion Designer Monique Lhuillier Created Avril's Black Wedding Gown

It was the lack of fashion-infused bridal options that launched her career as a designer of evening and bridal gowns in 1995. On Monday, Avril Lavigne wore the designer’s creation when she married Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger.

The queen of punk rock is just one of the many Hollywood A-listers who get to liking the creations of Monique Lhuillier, the Philippine Fashion designer who has a couture fashion house in Los Angeles and is now an American citizen married to Tom Bugbee, by whom she has two children.

Lavigne married Kroeger on July 1 in an intimate ceremony in a castle in the south of France, with her donning a strapless, black tulle gown with a bouquet of black roses and a diamond headband.

“She sported her signature smudgy black eye shadow with nude lips and effortless beachy blonde waves,” said MTV Style in a July 3 article.

This was a far cry from when she married Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley in 2006, where she wore a girly white gown and a long veil in a traditional wedding ceremony.

Lhuillier, who has been a celebrity favourite for both wedding and red-carpet gowns, counts among her clientele Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Withespoon, Kristen Stewart, Drew Barrymore, Hillary Swank, Jennifer Lopez. Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, among others.

Born to a businessman of French descent and a Filipino-Spanish mother who was a society figure and former fashion model, Lhuillier grew up and studied during her early years in the central Philippine city of Cebu.

She then went on to a finishing school in Switzerland, becoming an outstanding student in Lausanne where she dreamt of becoming a successful fashion designer. It was in Los Angeles, where she studied at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, where she started to hone her creative talent.

She launched her first bridal collection in 1996 after opening first venturing into the fashion industry a year earlier, and has never looked back since.

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