The Alchemist

Clint Holton Potestas 12/26/2018

Early morning in November, I sobbed to her that I would have to cease writing in the newspaper after 12 years. I met Jul Oliva right here. I stalked her first on Instagram while I was residing…

All that grows, crawls, and flies

Clint Holton Potestas 12/11/2018

YVONNE Quisumbing is pretty—cosmetics-free except the subtle tint of pink on her lips. Her hair is tied in a bun. She has a slim frame, convenient to slip into any of the sample fit of womenswear she…

A joyful mystery

Clint Holton Potestas 12/04/2018

Truthfully, my only preference,” —the cursor in our chat box blinks thrice, indicating she’s typing, then deleting a few words and restructuring them again on the keypad on the other end of the line.   “Comfortable, wearable,…

Strokes of genius

Clint Holton Potestas 11/17/2018

WHAT Charo Santos is wearing to lunch today—a pearl white silk long sleeves over a pair of soft pink, ruffled Capri pants—could anytime be transported to the “Maalala Mo Kaya” studio, the only show she is most…

Romantic development

Clint Holton Potestas 11/06/2018

It’s like unwrapping a gift that keeps on giving—three newly hailed queens herald the descent of the freshest ideas that sprang from three great minds. Romanticism isn’t new, to begin with. But this century-old idea has been…

Moral of the story

Clint Holton Potestas 10/30/2018

The convention is still mighty enough to change the morals of the future. Like any form of recollection, something good has emerged for our kind, too. All we did, in the beginning, was to believe in the…

Can this be love?

Clint Holton Potestas 10/23/2018

AISHA Peñalosa pierced the silence—either in the volume of applauses for permeating a bevy of seasoned colleagues or in the frequency of the blood pumped in the heart, a most probable vital sign to the most doubtful…

The power in numbers

Clint Holton Potestas 10/16/2018

WHAT is the quotient of four divided by 41? Consider the possibilities in this simple show of solution. Yesterday, 10 of the 41 fashion designers unfurled their latest collection at the 9th Panasonic Fashion Festival at the…

KIM JONES: Star quality

Clint Holton Potestas 10/13/2018

IF THE paradigm shifts in fashion are in-the-face clichés forever, Kim Jones readily whips up a cure that drives the boredom away. The 31-year-old British-Australian socialite says it’s a degree of reformation that is just right there…

One that brings us together

Clint Holton Potestas 10/09/2018

TO WHAT degree of miracle did Apriel Smith walk on thin air? Raising the curtain for the division of Harvey Cenit in the show, she emerged on the runway in a brisk kind of cat walk to…

In love forever

Clint Holton Potestas 10/05/2018

Her love for pearls—and blings, which some of them have adorned a few dresses in my collection,” points Mel Maria of the inspiration in his latest series of bridal gowns drawn from the opulent fashion sense of…

Who are you wearing?

Clint Holton Potestas 10/02/2018

It’s so close that you can smell the air of optimism. In the fashion calendar in Cebu, October has already begun last Sept. 29 when Philipp Tampus welcomed the month with over 100 couture looks he is…

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