House of Mirth

Clint Holton Potestas 09/25/2018

Will I be missed when I step back? At 5:20 in the afternoon, a Tuesday, in the first week of September, I slip through the door of the fitting room at the atelier of Philipp Tampus in…

Staying power

Clint Holton Potestas 09/22/2018

INSIDE the residence of Ditas Rodriguez is a pull-push of two forces that are odd together. What renders the illumination throughout the low-ceiling living room is the afternoon sunlight absorbed in the indoor pocket garden. Shadows of…

9×9

Clint Holton Potestas 09/18/2018

I AM slowly mincing solid-rock logic into nine chambers of why I should fall in love again, my tiny brain infested with a favorite Sarah Geronimo last song syndrome—“Paano ba magmahal, palagi ba’ng nasasaktan?” Endearment, to begin…

Strong and constant

Clint Holton Potestas 09/04/2018

  Christian Ian Sy is our version of a gentleman in waiting. “My heart is burning with pride and immense happiness because today my dream for my brothers and sisters in both of my Dragon Boat teams…

Away we go

Clint Holton Potestas 08/28/2018

THE WINSOME, frolicking mood of today’s winning leisure-time looks reminds us of the lost world of idle pleasure immortalized in the streaks of genius from those who truly wander. An inch-tall, immaculate white and piped with metallic…

Youth of the nation

Clint Holton Potestas 08/21/2018

SHOULD there be a little over an inch of expansion in my body, I would look like Winnie the Pooh in my #ootn—a model-fit shirt I purchased from the menswear collection of Yvonne Quisumbing at the 2015…

Heart of gold

Clint Holton Potestas 08/18/2018

GABBY CONCEPCION PROFESSIONALLY speaking— Gabby Concepcion, 53, is the least single-minded in his league. To begin with, in whatever period in the business of pleasing everybody, he is consistently thrice the charmer. “What is nice about me…

The Road Home

Clint Holton Potestas 07/28/2018

ANNA BAYLE IT WAS  a sacred trinity of supreme beings inside the highly curated paradise of French fashion designer Thierry Mugler—Anna Bayle, a Binibining Pilipinas reject, in the middle of the arch- rivalry with Dalma Callado and…

FORCES OF NATURE

Clint Holton Potestas 07/14/2018

“AY, CRISPY, woohoo!”— if you’re meandering through the islets of dining tables, this particular deep-fried pig knuckle may sound like an orchestra hit, especially when it reverberates in the entire room in the highest octave of Bituin…

Nobody’s baby

Clint Holton Potestas 07/10/2018

IF YOU build it, they will come. “Being new to the industry, I have a whole lot of learning and unlearning to do,” replies Rachel Rama to my text message the midnight after she discovered a nose…

PRETTY COOL

Clint Holton Potestas, Michelle Joy Padayhag 07/07/2018

JUVEL DUCAY I eat a lot,” Juvel Ducay bursts into laughter when talking about a religious beauty and diet observance after coming home to Cebu from a sleepless road to the crown. “Grabe, pag-abot nako dinhi, sus,…

SHE BANGS!

Clint Holton Potestas 07/04/2018

NETIZENS have gushed about the new haircut of the Philippines’ Concert Queen Pops Fernandez. A longer and sleeker silhouette, it is a return of the bob, apple cut she also sported in the 80s. “Ayaw ko din…

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