Trend of LifeStyle: top 10 to Watch at PHILIPPINE FASHION WEEK /HOLIDAY 2010

Lyle Ibanes on the Runway 2010

It's Philippine Fashion Week. Watching the models on the runway by the talented and innovative participating designers, dining and socializing way too late in the evening, getting into the hotel room never earlier than 2 a.m., trying to recollect and describe a week of beautiful clothes, great potentials, making new friends and enjoying the old ones, is a mega celebration of fashion.. style.. and life!

Lyle Ibanez: Uber Chic collection

Joel Escober's Fab Collection

I'm looking forward on seeing clothes that I love at the Philippine Fashion Week Holiday 2010, both on a personal level and a professional one. There are so many talented designers showing here and a promising crop of NextGen and Emerging Designers. They have given PFW a boost and mission and they all deserve the support of the entire fashion community.

Angelo Estera's Haute Couture 2010

This season’s breakout new collection from Dubai, MICHAEL CINCO's Haute Couture and ANGELO ESTERA's Luxe Wear. Both as international contingent promising fresh take on haute couture shapes and dresses.

Michael Cinco's Haute Couture Collection

From the tried and true, consistently good collections were presented by pioneering designers like Gerry Katigbak and Frederick Peralta, whose collections produce a total package featuring across the music, the clothes, the hair and make-up that all worked together perfectly.

Jun-jun Cambe's Couture Collection
Jun -jun Cambe showed strong and yet fluid lines that echoes his versatility from pret-a- porter to couture last season. He created stunning collection with fluid cut and modern patterns.

Ronaldo Arnaldo's Collection
Ronaldo Arnaldo continues to impress and will definitely go places, along with Tina Daniac who we can count on each season! surely know their customer and avid style fans well and how to do business too. Pencil Diestra, my petite and artistic designer from Malabon always comes up with trendy and wearable pieces, very refreshing, but needs to push himself and stretch further, Alex Pigao takes us on a lovely Ilocos journey with his native wear fabrics done in contemporary wearable pieces and Popo Go and Joel Escober know how to dress us well.I just love Bang Pineda's edgy and contemporary men's line.

Bang Pineda's Men's Line
What did occur to me this season, and became very clear after so many trips to Manila, is something that is essentially ‘global pinoy" soaring high in the essence of talents and craftmanship, elevating to international level.

So how does that affects some kind of Pinoy ‘fashion critic’ from across the Middle Earth placing the Philippine Fashion Week collections in context, in my country, right now and tell it like it is?... I believe we can.....!!!!!

I also look around at the SMX, a contemporary and high end venue filled with the people who love fashion, love clothes, live and breathe the industry.
So let's have a tour-de-force statement for the designer worth watching.... basing this from their past collections which were strong, singular and presented a distinct point-of-view. See you at SMX....
thanks: Larry Leviste..see you!!!!

Joey and Audie Espino for the unconditional support for all Filipino Designers

1. MICHAEL CINCO