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Modern casual take on Filipiniana at Bench Pinoy Lab in SM Mall of Asia Modern casual take on the terno at Bench Pinoy Lab in SM Mall of Asia While it’s admirable of designers and brands to ...
The term "Filipiniana" describes traditional dress from the culture of the Philippines. Its two main elements, the men's "barong" and the women's "terno," are, respectively, the shirt and dress ...
Fashion designers and stylists are working overdrive to come up with exciting, fresh ideas for this year’s “Modern Filipiniana” theme. It’s a tricky design peg for Filipino designers ...
There’s been a spate of modernized Filipiniana lately, but perhaps the latest stab at relevance is the one most likely to stick. Araw, a local label by Carla Sison, is set to launch a line of ...
MANILA, Philippines – As a child of the ’90s, my first experience of Filipiniana was the stiff and scratchy Balintawak my mother dressed me in for our school’s Linggo ng Wika celebration.
The Filipiniana was born, although the term itself probably followed only a good number of years after, perhaps about a century later. Important Filipiniana dresses include the terno and baro't ...
But it has to be celebrated… it needs to be there.” Mr. Espina is part of a cohort that made Filipiniana outfits cool and casual in 2010s, a trend which we’re happy to report is still going strong.
MANILA, Philippines — Effective on Dec. 8, all government workers must wear “Filipiniana-inspired” clothes on all working Mondays of the month to “boost employee morale, professionalism ...