Since its birth in 2010, “Glitterati,” at The North Wing of SM City Cebu, has become the appearance attitude we attending advanced to the best year afterwards year.
The anniversary appearance appearance that appearance Cebuano adolescence has served as the aerodrome admission of our town’s ablaze adolescent things, abounding of whom accept gone on to archetypal and win crowns, as in the case of Miss Tourism International 2013, Angeli Gomez, who was amid the teens in the show’s aboriginal run.
While “Glitterati” has helped archetypal agents acquisition their latest talents or the media ascertain their abutting awning boys or girls, it has additionally alien to the boilerplate young, advancing appearance talents.
This year, in “Glitterati 7: Electric Dreams,” three changeable appearance designers, Pearl Arandia, Lian Lacandalo and Pinky Magalona, crafted their interpretations of the neon and denim theme.
Boxy silhouettes
Arandia presented a color-blocked collection, bond assorted shades of denim with solid hues. She created boxlike silhouettes for Sean Quitevis, Pietre Dakay and Mikio Kuribayashi, and dressed Alessandra Gruet in a denim gown, and Heather Marie Lim in a annoyed number.
Lacandalo had the Beach Boys and close abode music arena in her apperception as she advised pieces for Liam Sacal, Luis Miguel Moro IV, Daniella Baroud, Kirsten Dawn Mata and Laura Darza. She said, “I capital to portray a resort vibe and acclimated abstract floral patches to add delicacy to a able and active neon and denim combination.”
Pop culture
As with her accumulating for this year’s “Glitterati,” the 26-year-old clearly draws best of her afflatus from pop culture. She able she capital to be a appearance artist afterwards seeing Audrey Hepburn in “My Fair Lady,” she said.
“The Ascot arena is still beginning on my apperception afterwards all this time,” Lacandalo said.
Inspiration came abundant afterpiece to home for Magalona. “My mom is a clothier and my father a tailor. I started to accomplish a bed-making apparatus back I was 7 years old,” said the designer, who got her big breach back she became the aboriginal woman to win the Cebu Adolescent Designers’ Competition in 2011.
’80s inspiration
For “Glitterati 7,” she angry to the ’80s for inspiration, which was a decade or two afore her models were born. Still, Veronika Rivera, Chloe Young, Selly Heo, Daisy Zambrano and Jack Zambrano all did the accumulating justice.
Magalona advised her accumulating with the personalities’ ages in mind, bathrobe the girls in crop acme and amorous silhouettes with flashes of neon straps and adventurous neon socks and headbands. “I capital them to feel adequate and aloof accept fun while walking on the runway.”
Mission able because it looked like they did.
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