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PHILIPPINE FASHION WEEK HOLIDAY 2012

PHOTOGRAPHED BY: Amadeus Palarca Landingin

Additional photos by: Amiel Mallare and Emmanuel Villas

Philippine Fashion Week on its 15th year of celebrating fashion, has recently staged Filipino design talents showcasing their latest collections for the Holiday 2012. New trends and looks astounded the fashion fanatics who flocked together at the SMX Convention Center SM Mall of Asia.

20 shows, 79 designers and 8 brands participated in this much-awaited PFW season.

May 25, 2012

Femme fatales ruled the runway at Philippine Fashion Week Holiday 2012, featuring the designs of Chris Diaz, the so called "Romantic Designer" of the Philippine fashion industry, unveiled his collection of bringing back the 80's theme. Rich and opulent colors of laces and velvet dominated the center stage while presenting a classic turn on the all-time admired fabrics and pieces as models were adorned by fur hats. Colors of black and dark purple, holiday hues like dark forest green and deep reds were also been used. Bringing back the evening gowns with beaded accents were the highlights of the show. Avel Bacudio, Eric Delos Santos and Raoul Ramirez joined Diaz on the same schedule and venue as they also revealed their fashionable masterpieces on the runway.

Oxygen, one of the country's hottest brands flaunted their latest stylish men and women street wear pieces for the season. Good-looking and sexy male and female models had stepped on the catwalk.

At present, Philippine Fashion Week is now branded as ‘Olympics of Fashion’ and is the longest running fashion event in the country—celebrating Filipino creativity twice a year gathering millions of media exposure locally and internationally.

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I am curious. I travel. I am soul searching. Curious Tootling Soul, 3 words referring to me. In our everyday lives, we wander, and we ask questions. Yes, and sometimes it is hard to explain to someone who doesn’t quite see the world how you do— the way you do. Life to many can just be sectionalized and put into little boxes. A box for your true self; a box for your sociable self; a box for your fancies: your wants, your desires. Looking at your bucket list—list, highlight, and check. For some though life isn’t quite so simple. Some of us don’t know exactly what we want to do next or where we want to go, we just know there is so much out there we want to experience. We visit and travel new places often without knowing exactly what for, just that we know in our soul we need to. Mundane, humdrum existence and material things don’t impress us. We are in search for answers, for fulfillment and gratification. We need to be surrounded by love and warmth, growth and good. We know there is nothing better than a genuine laugh or a heartfelt hug. We are moved by the storytellers, the dreamers, the drifters, the people whose lives are different than ours, that we can learn from. We are drawn to new surroundings and unique experiences. As we fall in love with so many things around us, sometimes it is hard to keep track. We love and we continuously holding on for that love. We love different. We love doing things that terrify us because we know those are the moments that we grow. We love looking back and seeing that we have accomplished what we never thought we could, things we never thought were even a possibility. Because it is in those moments we know we are becoming the people we were always intended to be. We leap before we look sometimes. It is finding ourselves when we didn’t know we were lost and continuing to find ourselves over and over again. It is kissing a cute stranger under the stars, waving at a baby we pass on the street, helping someone who cannot repay us. It is jotting down a funny memory or a beautiful quote we can’t forget. It is finding out what makes us smile the biggest, what our passions are, what makes our eyes light up just by talking about it. (an excerpt from A. Twigg, 2015) I fall, but I keep on rising. My faith has been tested, but it always remains. I have grandiose plans and an endless list of options; the places that I want to explore and journeys that I want to take. I don’t always know how I will accomplish something, I just know some ways and the courage of somehow—I will. Life for me is a puzzle of creating moments. It is finding my next adventure. It is setting my feet on new sands, diving into new seas. It is laughing with a group of strangers, singing words to songs that I don’t know matters. It is knowing that there is a whole wide world out there just waiting for me to discover it. It is the feeling that there is no better time than right now to do what we have always wanted to do, so why not go? Do it.