Dubai-based Filipino Designer Michael Cinco's Haute Couture featured on America's Next Top Model Cycle 16

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PH: Nigel Barker

Creative Director: Jay Manuel

Joel Escober Pre-Fall Collection 2011 in a sneak preview by Mega Magazine (April 2011)

PH: Seven Barretto
Styling: Eldzs Mejia
Make-Up: Lilian Yeung
Hair: Jay Wee
Styling Assistant: Paris Roxas
Models: Rodina Luspo and Melanie Angeles (CalCarrie's)

Hindy Tantoco graces the cover of Town & Country Magazine Philippines (April 2011)

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Maggie Wilson in Cary Santiago Bridal Couture for Metro Weddings Magazine (Vol. 10 No. 2)

PH: BJ Pascual
Make-Up: Robbie Pinera
Hair: Raymond Santiago
Set Design: Dino Reyes and Marlon Rivera

Charo Ronquillo in 2011 Purely Alfred Angelo/Bridesmaids Catalog

 

Ria Bolivar and Zhenya Papirovska in Cary Santiago and Furne One for Preview Magazine (December 2010)

Models: Ria Bolivar, Zhenya Papirovska (Mercator)
PH: Paolo Pineda
Styling: Darryl Chang
Art Direction: Vince Uy
Make-Up: Omar Ermita at Shu Uemura
Hair: Vianney Guese
Nails: Emily Llagas at Nail Spa
Stylist's Assistant: Anna Canlas

Rafe Tontengco is Nine West's new Creative Director for handbags

Props, props, props to New York-based Filipino designer Rafe Totengco for his new appointment as Creative Director of the global brand Nine West. Here's an excerpt of a report from the Philippine Daily Inquirer:

The New York-based Filipino designer had been meaning to take a break as he put his eponymous accessories brand on hiatus (he’s not rolling out a Spring 2011 collection). Rafe New York has been a casualty of the bad economy, so that Totengco had entered into a licensing agreement with another company to keep afloat.

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Totengco’s initial directive is to steer the handbag businesses of Nine West and Vintage America. For Nine West, which is exclusively distributed in the Philippines by Stores Specialists Inc., it’s to get the woman who buys the shoes to buy the handbag as well.

The first handbag collection under his direction will roll out in April. It will distinctly be “chicer, cleaner, more polished, more lady,” he says. For Nine West, he has two senior and two associate designers working on the collections.

Totengco says he will revive Rafe soon, under a new licensing agreement with The Jones Group. With the recovering economy, he believes the market will soon be ready again for smaller designer brands. “I would never sell my company,” he stresses.

His campaign for the Rafe brand, Fall/Winter 2009 (Model: Lisa Cady, Click Model Management)

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Bea Valdes Necklace Appears In Vogue UK (December 2010)

"Filipina accessory designer Bea Valdes has yet another press accolade to be proud of: One of her pieces lands another editorial in British Vogue entitled “Star Girls,” a feature in the December 2010 issue where master lensman Mario Testino photographs this decade’s top supermodels.  

None other than American model Angela Lindvall wears Bea’s studded Tellurian necklace, as styled by fashion editor Lucinda Chambers." (stylebible.ph)

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Inno Sotto: "Muse"

The country's premiere fashion designer and visionary celebrates his 30th glorious year in Philippine fashion and captures the timeless essence of his creations with a short film featuring one of the country's most beautiful faces of today, actress Heart Evangelista, and helmed by calibre actor-cum-director Albert Martinez.

Credits:
a short film by ALBERTO P. MARTINEZ
concept by INNO SOTTO
starring HEART EVANGELISTA
original musical score: LOUIE OCAMPO
screenplay: FUDGE MAGPILY DE LEON
asst. director: MYLA AJERO
cinematography: ALMA DELA PENA