“C an you dance?” our fashion director Pam Quiñones asks Bretman Rock as we set the stage for our June cover shoot. “Miss Pam, I don't know if I can dance,“ Bretman says, with his signature sass, “but one thing is for sure,” he beams, “I'm a star!”
That he is. This month, he brilliantly takes center stage in our “Pride” issue, irrepressible, unfiltered, and undoubtedly charismatic. From a Manila-based studio to the sandy island of Siquijor, with his high flying kicks in patent shoes, to bare feet soaked in shallow shorelines, comes a fashion editorial that celebrates gender-fluid mindsets.
With him, there is an immense sense of freedom. Whether born of a childhood steeped in open-minded nurturing, or be it from hardfought boundary breaking as a young adult, he…
