Trend of LifeStyle: ILLUSTRADO MAGAZINE

Rabu, 21 Agustus 2013

The Princes of ECOTOPIA

Ethical Fashion always intimidates the "mainstream glamour", its subversive nature doesn't always aim to please,

it bends to the edgier side...the darker the better.

Ecouture is designer's alter ego, omnimously enigmatic, at some point, snub by the higher echelons. While its original ethos are non-comformist and non-elitist, its voluntary introversion( Alexander McQueen, Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens, Yohji Yamamoto), the use of cheapest components like bin liners and toilet chains( Vivienne Westwood, Comme des Garcons), the total concept, is not simply to offer alternative dressing...but a lifestyle, a way of life.

Illustrado, one of the leading style magazines in the Dubai, challenged six talents to" bleed' their creativity and pumped up what is eco-fashion all about. Miss LALAINE CHU BENITEZ-editor-in- chief, works on championing the cause, and is highly commendable. Not only the issue focuses on environmental friendliness in style and fashion, it also places Filipino artistry in the spotlight. Illustrado magazine's unique and highly conceptualized issue, put up five notches...it is fashionably chic!

So welcome the risque' ensemble of undisputed talents, surfacing amongst the fierce in the Middle Earth.

JESSIE SINDAYEN

ECO- Avant GARDE

JESSIE SINDAYEN's uncluttered, edgy and time consuming wearable art, is the cover of this month issue of ILLUSTRADO.

Raising the bar of expectations (not only our eyebrows!), the transformation of geometrical structure of paper origami precisely stitched together and painstakingly attached to create a hip and trendy skirt, shows the mastery over surface treatment of Sindayen.

The strainer arm bling, the mesh-wire veil and steel bracelets, were just right to the structure.

The plastic wrapped mid stockings completed the look. Totally in control, Jessie Sindayen is the luxe of Ecouture...tame, low key and fluid.

SHELFRED SURDILLA

Juvenile Fashionist

BATHROOM COUTURE

SHELFRED SURDILLA's young and boy-next- door look is deceptive. Maybe it is skin deep, but not his innate creativity. His humor is his 'joi de vie', putting toilet's must haves into an amazing collection of what is called the BATHROOM COUTURE!!

Clean and soft white towels neatly folded to form like a closed umbrella; knee length, very playful and naughty. What more could be better than toilet napkins magically twisted like bird wings embellished at the bodice of the dress...

hahaha!!!! WITTY! CHARMING and cute!!!!! I was mesmerized and in love with his collection.

I can't wait what is his next surprise!......the new prince of fashion, his highness Prince Shelfred!

USHI SATO

ECO ROCK GLAM

Everybody loves USHI SATO's LRD...the rock GLAM 'Little Red Dress'!!!! from Michael Cinco-Dubai's Fashion Supremo to the High Fashion Diktat, Bandoix Flores. Sato's fabulous piece is an art created by his beautiful mind. Tweetum Couture, is soft plastic narrow skirt with red pipe in circle patterns. Adorned with red plastic tube cut outs in diminishing splurge with Manga inspired waist band in plastic tubes patiently attached together.Hair clips

added youthful exuberance to the reddish hair. The innovative, very amazing, very hip and very fabulous blue high strung needle pointed bleeding dainty and fragile S-H-O-E-S.....you know what? stole the thunder from the rose!

You are the young hip version of Christian Louboutin USHI!!!!!...LOVE YOU MUAHHH!...END.

And so in the land of Ecotopia.....3 PRINCES claim their haute-ness.......................

PHOTO CREDITS:in fairness...EROS GOZE!!!!!!!

Selasa, 03 April 2012

FASHION & WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AT ILLUSTRADO EVENT 2011

She had a dream, a vision of good life and future, she struggles and she struggles harder. The new woman. Ordinary woman. Almost self made with nothing but raw guts and strong survival instinct. Woman with balls, who's unafraid to face challenges.

Meet the ILLUSTRADO WOMEN.Women of substance, a mother, a sister and a friend.

At the Illustrado Event 2011, I was upfronted with disarming ladies who shine, who muscled their way to the top. These are women who are changing the stereotype on their head by being...themselves. An amazing summit of women who are in the forefront of new social order that took place in Dubai.

LALAINE CHU BENITEZ-Editor-in- Chief, ILLUSTRADO MAGAZINE

They came in all sizes, age and degree of appearance at the red carpet, forgetting for the moment that red carpets are all about celebrities and film stars, they are real women on their moments- a collective consciousness of a nation of filipina women we look up and emulate to. Women who sacrifice, who need to be strong and trying to have the empowerment.

WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE 2011 ISSUE

That day I saw a new definition of empowerment, they are no longer boxed over someone, it is the empowerment over themselves, assuming total control of their own lives, physically, morally and emotionally. Women who dressed up, women who earn and are responsible of their actions, women who are aware and in- charge of their bodies and fashionable well- being.

Women who shy are passe. It's all about facing the mirror unafraid to say, " I am a woman, a beautiful fabulous woman".

GUEST SPEAKER: DR. MARGARITA HOLMES with designer USHI SATO

BEST DRESSED MAN 2011: BANDOIX FLORES/ BEST DRESSED WOMAN 2011: ANNA DE LEON

It is about time that women explore their boundaries and create new images , feeling free to get out from the boxes of traditional impositions. There is something pleasing about women who reinvent themselves. It’s a new era of female domination – what existed in the echelons of the kitchen has moved to the workplace. It’s not really about who wears the pants, rather who finds himself holding the skirt..!!!!

KEEP FIERCE AND FABULOUS, LADIES !!!!!!!!!!