Her queenly presence

Clint Holton Potestas 09/11/2016

“ANG sarap ng chicken, winner!” a woman screeches from the other lunch table—breaking the peal of susurrations you usually hear in an al fresco beach restaurant—and then she laughs, even harder than the seasoned comic counterparts she…

All eyes here

Clint Holton Potestas 08/31/2016

YOU know Georgina. And how painful it is to be perching a Tiffany seat apart from her—ah, remember Georgina Wilson, the Tyra Banks of Asia’s Next Top Model?— who is putting on a pair of eyeglasses just to…

What she did next

Clint Holton Potestas 08/28/2016

IF THE humor about designers accepting all materials, including tin roofs, to sew into garments to keep their finances afloat were feasible, then Jul Oliva would have brighter ideas tucked in place. A step ahead, a league…

Petal Pushers

Clint Holton Potestas 08/24/2016

“AGAIN?” —Teresin Mendezona charmingly blurted out, still obliging to the lady photographer who requested for two more shots of her in the front row. If the images would come out anytime soon, what she wore that night…

Destiny’s child

Clint Holton Potestas 08/21/2016

IS THERE anything else you want from Kate? “Asking me which one is my favorite is like asking me who my favorite daughter is,” laughs Kate Anzani on the question about the most favorite restaurant she runs.…

Are you a believer?

Clint Holton Potestas 08/20/2016

I FORECASTED the horizons like Atom Araullo—partly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. “I’m just glad I didn’t wear high heels today,” Mother whispered after she walked past the makeshift foot plank that bridged the dock…

The theory of creation

Clint Holton Potestas 08/10/2016

THIS compulsion to get into glad rags and raise high the glass often articulates itself in a memorabilia—opulent reverence toward velvety Victorianism or bustled Edwardian ball skirts. But not this August. You, ladies, will be lustrous now, not…

Our lady of pop

Clint Holton Potestas 08/07/2016

ONE late Saturday afternoon in July, a thumping soirée was going full power in Cebu City. The stage light worked its magic as guys in pit-soaked button downs and skinny pants shimmied alongside leggy girls in bandage-style…

Force of Nature

Clint Holton Potestas 08/03/2016

EVEN with its ubiquity, each collection has steered clear of such easy, obvious fare. Which was a relief. The athleisure—a word coined from athletic and leisure—craze has reached its acme, or let’s hope it has, at least.…

Like mom like me

Clint Holton Potestas 07/27/2016

“GIVING birth twice was easier,” Gretchen Uy remarked on the maiden collection she just, well, gave birth to. She debuted on a Sunday afternoon since most of her friends—young working mothers, actually—were free to model each garment,…

Sona: Not a fashion show?

Clint Holton Potestas 07/23/2016

To step away from the norm” is the reason behind the dress code required from those who are attending the first State of the Nation Address (Sona) of President Rodrigo Duterte, incoming Finance Department spokesperson Paola Alvarez…

Little miss sunshine

Clint Holton Potestas 07/20/2016

  Tan’s resort wedding dresses are blank canvases on which individuality is being writ large. She has sewn a new skin to wear in the last three years of her career, spanning over 25 years and so…

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