Indholdsfortegnelse for June 2024 i VOGUE PHILIPPINES

Pride and progress take center stage in our June issue. The duality, we discover, not as two sides of the same coin, but as travelers, in step, to a world with more intention and inclusion. Fashioning the future, we have seen the beginning of a mindset shift, from fashion as industry to fashion as an ecosystem. The big idea is that we are all connected, from the soil to the studio floor, from tailoring all the way to AI technology. A responsible material revolution is on its way as well. Through the marriage of science and fashion, the possibilities seem limitless. We feature Coperni's Air Swipe Bag, made from aerogel, resulting in a bag crafted from 99 percent air and one percent glass. Thirty-three grams of science fiction spun into…

In 1979, Tunisian couturier Azzedine Alaïa created stage costumes for the dancers of Crazy Horse Paris, the world-famous Parisian cabaret. Forty-five years later, this project is the muse for the first edition of Dialogue, creative director Pieter Mulier's new series of cultural and artistic explorations under the house. “[Azzedine] was such a visionary, that from the very start, he imagined Alaïa as a whole. As a space where fashion opens up to art and beauty,” Mulier says. “And this vision remains today. Because I believe that fashion only makes sense if it connects with its time. With the world.” In a striking spread, 11 dancers are photographed by Sam Rock wearing the maison's sheer high neck dress crafted in fine knit, with a matching Teckel bag in calfskin. Each dancer…

FEATURE In order to arrive at Holy Carabao Farm, visitors must abide by a detailed set of instructions. How it starts: Do not follow Waze. How it ends: Park outside. And enter on foot. Contrary to what you might expect, what greets you immediately through the nondescript black gate isn't a vast grassland (although there is one), but rather an events place to the left, a school to the right, and a cafe straight ahead. Enter the former, called The Farm Shed, and you are welcomed by Hindy Weber, fashion designer and co-founder of Holy Carabao—a regenerative farm that offers classes, tours, and events centered around nutrition and biodiversity. It's “where nature thrives, and connections flourish” their website reads. Inside, the usual flurry of a Vogue shoot is exchanged for…

ADRIAN ALABADO DOESN'T DO A N Y THING H ALF -HEARTED. Neither does Marina Summers. But the former, the 27-year-old who was raised in Nueva Vizcaya, will obviously inform the latter, his drag persona that, as of this year, has become an international sensation. From finishing as runner-up to the inaugural season of Drag Race Philippines, she exploded into global consciousness by being invited to join the second staging of Drag Race: UK vs The World. There, she was introduced with a bolo in hand promising to slay the “colonizers,” which she did, week in and week out through her performances and captivating runway looks on the main stage. For today's shoot, however, the brief was a lot calmer. “As Marina, I don't present her, like, half-done. You know what…

“ART IS ANYTHING YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH.” This was Andy Warhol's inciting sentiment. Like a master painter wielding a paintbrush or a photographer picking up his camera, generative AI has become a tool for self-expression and creative exploration. Delving into her own use of art and fashion as instruments for conveying ideologies, Miuccia Prada once explained, “If I were a doctor, I would use the available science. They are instruments of knowledge used to make ideas available.” While sentiments may be polarizing, there's no denying that art, fashion, and science coalesce and progress in new and exciting avenues through the instrument that is AI. With generative AI, anyone can have the incredible ability to create new content based on any prompts they choose to input. In other words, whatever…

IN THE PHILIPPINES, TRAVELING IS OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE PASALUBONG, which is a Filipino custom that sees travelers returning to the country to bring gifts from their destination to the important people in their lives. It has evolved as an important aspect of local culture, and is a tradition that has been passed down from generations of Filipinos as a way to foster bonds between families, friends, and in rarer instances, as a way to forge stronger relationships with people that are first meeting. This culture promotes the joy of giving, and regardless of the destination, Filipino travelers can use the Metrobank World Mastercard to purchase presents for people back home. A gift for the beauty junkies, Sasa Cosmetics in Hong Kong is a retailer that caters toward a wide…

DON JAUCIAN Writer, FUTURE FORWARD “Progress for me means recognizing our rights on an equal level as everyone else, not just same sex marriage but placing laws against discrimination and eradicating its roots.” ANNA TALYZN Stylist, CHAIN MAIL “There is Life. And there is Progress. Our day to day is a hybrid of both; however, life is fluid, and every day that we live, we experience a new color and we face a new attitude, good and bad. Progress is always there alongside Life. Life is a friend that also offers noise, and the consequence is a dilution of Progress. And our responsibility is to honor Progress by keeping it on a pedestal. Having lived a life with all the colors that the rainbow offers, and more, my goal is…

TECHNOLOGY “You need to be passionate. You must be authentic, and it must be tremendous… don't just do it for yourself, do it for society” “I ALWAYS ASK MYSELF, 'What is the problem?' And then, after identifying the problem, 'How can I help?'” Louie Villalon shares. Villalon and Patrick De Guzman know that changing even a small part of the world requires a constant process of tinkering, creating, and innovating. The two young inventors are using their technical skills to develop resourceful solutions to the Philippines' energy challenges, approaching problems one step at a time. Louie's approach reflects the understanding that change requires a commitment to identifying problems and finding solutions. “I still solve every challenge step by step because you can't solve it all in one go,” the 30-year-old…

The visibility of male plus-sized bodies seems to be relegated to the realm of the great 'what ifs' of fashion. And though the conversation has been kickstarted countless times—a quick Google search unearths a plethora of attempts—it has died down with a defeated shrug each time. The question still stands, though. Where are all the male plus-sized models? Closer to home, the narrative isn't much different. Despite a burgeoning fashion scene posing its own limitations, inclusion hasn't expanded While diversity has arguably been one of the industry's biggest mandates, Vogue Business's size inclusivity report for spring/summer 2024 revealed a stark reality: out of 9,584 looks spanning 230 shows across four cities, only 0.9 percent were plussized—a term classified as larger than a size US 14. Despite London's recognition as one…

HE WAS GOING FAST, starting strong as a Givenchy exclusive in 2010, had the world talking about his Marcus Piggot shoot for French Vogue in the same year, taking a step to a long held goal to create his line with a Bench Body collaboration in 2017. “I'd land in Toronto then get a call, you have a flight in five hours, and I would just unpack, shower, repack, and leave,” he recalls. He felt unstoppable, like anything was possible, even taking on the basketball court again for the first time in eight years since tearing his Achilles. He didn't become the professional basketball player he dreamed of being yet he's reached heights since—unprecedented ones as the first Filipino male supermodel and paved the way for Southeast Asian representation previously…

CONRADO VELASCO Photographer, HOMECOMING “When fellow Filipinos earn recognition or even notoriety for pushing game changing ideas that rock the status quo from its slumber, it triggers pride in me. Such individuals are remarkable for believing in their ideas, making it happen and not giving up despite obstacles.” VINCE LEENDON Makeup Artist, THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES “Being able to achieve goals that I once thought were impossible for me to achieve. One of those is inspiring young artists locally and internationally through the art that I make. I feel proud of being able to redefine norms through creativity and expression and proving that being queer won't hinder success. That makes me feel pride.” ALEXANDRE DORNELLAS Creative Director & Stylist, EXPRESS YOURSELF “What makes me feel proud is when I…

“The FW24 collection is a whole sci-fi tribute,” say Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant, co-founders of the French fashion house Coperni. On their runway, space suits are upgraded with deliberate provocations: the trouser of a silver boiler suit is replaced with hot pants, and a rigid orbit hems a couple of body-hugging, off-shoulder ruched dresses. However, it's one special accessory that encapsulates Coperni's space exploration. The Air Swipe Bag is a distillation of fashion technology, and it weighs almost nothing. It's crafted from aerogel, which is described by NASA as “among the lightest solid materials known to man” and is also used to capture dust from a comet's tail and bring it back to Earth. “We worked with the amazing Prof. Ioannis Michaloudis who made the bag from 99 percent…

“THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE AND UNDERSTAND YOUR OWN THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, AND BEHAVIORS IS SELF-AWARENESS,” says Steph Naval, the founder and CEO of Empath, an enterprise that provides community-curated mental healthcare services to workplaces, schools, and non-profit initiatives. So important is self-awareness that it lays the groundwork for how we manage our emotions and reactions to different situations, with research telling us that it also builds resilience, creates fulfillment, and shapes emotional intelligence. Never has developing those qualities in an individual been more important than right now, with all of us still reeling from the aftereffects of living through the pandemic. Interestingly, it was also in 2020, the year we were hit with life-altering change, when the scientific non-profit How We Feel Project launched. The project's goal was simple: to help…

David Cash pivots with such frequency, he's like a compass magnetized to align with true north, and north, in his field, is a goalpost that just keeps accelerating. He even talks at a pace that leaves normies in the dust, spilling out discursive answers that would be stacked with hyperlinks if his sentences were to be digitized. The self-described polymath is also a prodigy: he started in the industry at a young age as a child actor, eventually making his own films before he was a teenager. This led to a stint at a venture capital firm working as a media director developing short form content, but he would soon strike it out on his own, founding one of the first influencer agencies in Toronto, and David Cash Studios, where…

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“THE RISE OF CAMERA PHONES SIGNALED A MOVE TOWARD THE MASS EMBRACING OF DOCUMENTING THE MUNDANE,” says author and social media theorist Nathan Jurgenson. For a majority of the general public, the phone camera has become a part of their day to day. “Pics of lunch, pets, your shoes became a kind of ambient metadata of everyday life,” he adds. This observation, taken from one of his written works titled The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media, discusses the smartphone in the realm of photography, and how this “ambient metadata” in the form of images has become a large part of modern life, with billions of photos shared across social media platforms. From a professional photographer's perspective, Chase Jarvis remarks that “the best camera is the one that's with…

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DESIGNER PROFILE In the English countryside, Paul and Linda McCartney brought up their young family of six in a 1930s farmhouse with only two bedrooms and one bathroom. Frequently planting and cooking vegetables, and surrounded by horses, peacocks, and other animals, a reverence for nature became a way of life for the McCartneys. Stella Mccartney's fashion brand, established in 2001, has always championed vegan alternatives to animal leathers and furs. She credits her advocacy of what we now classify as “sustainable” fashion to her upbringing, to the privilege of “being raised by two vegetarians and animal rights activists.” As a fashion designer, a United Nations representative, and special adviser on sustainability to LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, Stella is a self-proclaimed “eco-weirdo.” “When I started my company, no one…

The last time Isabel Sandoval was at QCinema in 2019, her third feature Lingua Franca had just premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. But in the last four years, she has established herself as not only a filmmaker but also as a champion of cinema. From writing briefly about Lino Brocka's Insiang for the Criterion Collection to introducing Mike de Leon's In the Blink of an Eye for his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Sandoval's passion for cinema is at the center of what makes her special. Now, she returns to QCinema for the inaugural edition of the QCinema Project Market as a different woman than when she last arrived, with a project that seems emblematic of all the transformations that have happened between these two visits:…

FEATURE MS. PHILIPPINES, with the name calligraphed on the sash over their shoulders, gazes over their audience in a pageant. It is a gaze with soft eyes, set on a strong set of shoulders, while wearing a bejeweled gown and a stack of beaded necklaces. There is unmistakable joy welling up in their eyes, as they face their crowning moment. This is one of the scenes that struck artist Ginoe after discovering a stack of vintage photographs that showed people in what we today would describe as drag. These were personal portraits, pageants snaps, and other social events from the collection of photo archivist John Silva at the Ortigas Foundation Library. The identities of the people in the photos are unknown, and some of the pictures are unmarked. The only…

Shot using the Huawei Pura 70 Ultra pro camera feature. Many cultures have tried to unravel the mystery behind the bonds that connect people with one another. Regardless of the distances between them, each culture has had myths and legends that are all tied toward a common symbol: the thread. Think of Greek mythology for example, who feature the Moirai (the embodiments of fate) that each hold a golden thread for every single living being, which is severed at the end of their mortal lives. In Jewish tradition, pilgrims on expeditions to Jerusalem often tie a Kabbalah to their wrists, which is a red string known to guide believers throughout their journey. In recent memory, the Asian interpretation of this concept has garnered public attention, most notably being featured as…

By TICIA ALMAZAN Photographs by BORGY ANGELES Fashion Director PAM QUIÑONES PAGE 22 TEAM CREDITS: Makeup: Bea Mocorro. Hair: Mong Amado. Models: Ida Lago, Jady Agonia, Jana Herrera, Paige Perrine, Queenie Tao, Steph Mashima. Producer: Anz Hizon. Photographer's Assistant: Pao Mendoza. Stylist's Assistant: Ticia Almazan. Makeup Assistant: JV Descalzo. Hair Assistant: Cats Del Rosario. FARM TO FASHION By TICIA ALMAZAN Photographs by BRENDAN FREEMAN Styling by CATERINA OSPINA Portrait by SEBASTIAN BOTTCHER PAGE 30 TEAM CREDITS: Makeup: Francesca Brazzo of The Wall Group. Hair: Bjorn Krischker of The Wall Group. Model: Cathrina Torres of Divide Management. Production Company: The Production Factory. Producer: Rachel Piper. Logistics and Location Coordinator: Toms Baritis. Photographer's Assistant: Kristos Giourgas. Stylist's Assistant: Janelle Williams. Special thanks to Imogen Pohl. SLOW LIFE By TICIA ALMAZAN Photographs by…

I was on the brink of retiring from publishing, having spent a decade playing various roles within its realms. But fate intervened when I stumbled upon an opportunity at Vogue. It all began during a press trip last year when I caught up with Vogue Philippines fashion director Pam Quiñones, who's always been an unofficial colleague of mine. Despite her veteran status, I was captivated by her unwavering energy and aspirational spirit. Motivated and inspired, to me, joining Vogue was about seizing the chance to narrate stories infused with so much purpose. Breaking that retirement idea, I find myself here again, welcoming you to the launch of Vogue Man Philippines. It's an exciting time as we recognize the incredible potential that lies within the menswear market in the Philippines. Over…

DESIGNER PROFILE NICOLO PEREZ IS ON SEASON TWO OF THE REALITY SERIES SELLING THE OC. More specifically, he's midway through the pilot when Vogue arrives at his studio, a two-storey house just east of Metro Manila. The designer is seated on a bar stool, arms resting on a cutting table large enough to accommodate his laptop, a cream utility overshirt, a tray of buttons, and a heap of miscellaneous items: measuring tape, thread, pins, rubber bands. Propped against three large windows are two sewing machines, where his in-house seamstress Rose is typically stationed. From where he sits, she's directly within his line of sight. “I'm a micromanager,” he confesses, chuckling as he gestures to his view. A self-proclaimed perfectionist, Nicolo has delegated the piecing of a garment together to Rose…

FEATURE Born in Kalihi, Hawai'i, Gil Duldulao's story began as a little boy who was looking to fit into his own skin. When he took a hip-hop dance class for beginners, his limbs took over. “I felt like it was a natural thing for me. It wasn't uncomfortable or awkward. It connected with me and I felt connected to it,” Duldulao recounts with a smile. Initially, he attributed part of his interest to his Filipino heritage, constantly being surrounded by music and relatives who could sing and dance in some capacity. However, the next 10 years would prove that the interest ran much deeper where he went through many agencies and was brought to multiple dance conventions by different choreographers. “They kept telling me that I need to go to…

WHEN JUDE LARTEY WAS GROWING UP, he found his dad's photobook from the '60s and '70s and was surprised at how compelling the images were despite the simplicity of its contents: parties, places in Ghana, and portraits of his dad. He also found his family's photobook of images of his grandfather who was a personal bodyguard for Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the West African country's first prime minister and then elected president when the country gained independence from Britain. In these photographs, he uncovered his hidden artistic roots, something that inspired him to pursue image-making as a profession. Jude was born and raised in Accra, Ghana's largest city and its capital. His images have gone on from the spotlight of PhotoVogue to the pages of GQ Middle East, reportage in National…

THE LOOK Photographs by KOJI ARBOLEDA Styling by NEIL DE GUZMAN & TICIA ALMAZAN Vogue Man Editor DANYL GENECIRAN PAGE 12 TEAM CREDITS: Makeup: Don De Jesus. Hair: Miggy Carbonilla. Model: Guillo Cruz of New Monarq. Producer: Anz Hizon. Photographer's Assistant: Joey Alvero. THE BLUEPRINT By TICIA ALMAZAN Photographs by KOJI ARBOLEDA Styling by NEIL DE GUZMAN Vogue Man Editor DANYL GENECIRAN PAGE 22 TEAM CREDITS: Makeup: Don De Jesus. Hair: Miggy Carbonilla. Model: Elio Brylle, Vince Marcelo of Mercator. Producer: Anz Hizon. Photographer's Assistant: Joey Alvero. Stylist's Assistant: Ticia Almazan. WIND & WAVES By DANIELLE RAMOS Photographs by PATRICK DIOKNO Vogue Man Editor DANYL GENECIRAN PAGE 34 TEAM CREDITS: Grooming: Don De Jesus. Talents: Louie Villalon, Patrick De Guzman. Producer: Anz Hizon. RHYTHM NATION By GABBIE TATAD Photographs by…