With the right body type and the right attitude, you can never go wrong with a designer piece. On September 9 at VUDU, Wednesday, a bevy of beauties were entertained by a play-by-play ensemble of what fierce should look like - dark, menacing, imposing and intimidating. For April Escasinas, Jason Manatad and James Cañete, the designers who hosted the event, fierce was in the form of wires, black eyeshadow, and attitude. If there had been a lion — or an entire safari backdrop — it wouldn’t have been a surprise.

Stylecebu readers are invited to watch the Electro Red Fashion Show that will feature the Sexy Encounters: Lingerie Collection Unleashed by Young Designers’ ANGELO BELCIŇA, LEVI NUŇEZ, PRIME SARINO, TIARA SISON, KYLE PEREZ and JAMES CAŇETE. The event is this Thursday, July 30, at 10pm.

‘Electro red: the wild posse’ entails romance and sensual aspects in fashion designing. It is then tagged as RED, the color of love, electrifying the night with the collection of young fashion designers and accessory designers from university of San Carlos-Talamban campus.

Official photographer: MARK …

When the Chiye Mori Design Library opened last May of this year, it was just the perfect venue to hold the Cebu Design Education Foundation (CDEF) Design Lecture last June 17. Advertising students, design-related courses students from San Carlos, design enthusiasts, media people, and friends of the organizers all congregated at the library de jour. I came to listen to two of the speakers of that evening: Butch Carungay and Oj Hofer.

Multi-awarded Gil “Butch” Carungay is a Cebu-based Filipino designer for Avatar Accessories and the company’s Managing Director. Almost …

Kieth Bitor is a Cebu-based bag designer who places emphasis on his made to order bags that do not have duplicates. The keywords here are personalized and customized. Kieth Bitor pledged that you will be the only one sporting a Kieth Bitor bag anywhere else in the world. Now isn’t that something? So Kieth, if I spot someone wearing the same bag I have in Hongkong, the bag is on you? Haha. I wish.

“Its main aesthetic. Buntal fiber.” Kieth explained on his bag’s materials. They are “accented with …

If Wednesdays are the new Fridays, won’t that make Thursdays the new Saturdays? This Thursday, watch another gathering of people who all have one common love: fashion.

Solstitium (latin. standing still) is the designers vision for “sun standing still”. Very dramatic, I might say and gorgeous! This one night show will highlight Cebu fashion designers and Bag-Ong Tribo Band at the Wineshop, Gorordo St., Cebu. Poster above is actually a preview of this Thursday’s soiree. Photos courtesy of El Garaje Studio and Ruben Shan.

Catch the designs of Jay Basiga, …

It is just right and grand to hold Cebu’s annual wedding fair that is anticipated by everyone every summer in Marco Polo Hotel. Chalk it up to the months before THE wedding month of June, this year’s bridal fete was a two day love affair of Cebu designers and the upcoming brides in 2009 last weekend at the Marco Polo Hotel.

When Cebu’s best ateliers, maquillage gurus or wedding resources are up for scrutiny to the public eye, I can imagine why the five-star hotel was full of consumers …

Lotte Delima Edwards, a Cebuana bred fashion designer who is now based in Singapore, opened the Island Girl Collection to the public last weekend at the Summer Fashion Frolic show at Plantation Bay Resort. The entire collection is aptly named after the islands in Cebu – Hilontongan, Olango, and Santa Fe Island. Each collection says a lot about the island – mystical, enchanting and very much seductive.

Her Island Girl Collection is all breezy and lighthearted that you would love to wear them from sun up to sun down.

The …

With the advent of haute couture blossoming into Gossip Girl aficionados, we’d rather be wearing the latest oversized headband than be caught dead with last season’s skinnies. Only a true Cebuano could actually sow influence among the few. He will make us go back to our roots and cultivate it. Dexter Alazas brought us back to old style Cebu without even moving any step backward. Before ooh-aahing his newest collection, see Dexter Alazas’ Linea Sugbuana as captured by Joseph Ong.

“LINEA SUGBUANA is my new line,” explains Dexter. “…very …

Back when Solar held their auditions at Crown Regency, Cebu was anticipating that she would outcouture the rest of the Philippines when it announced who among the several Project Runway Philippines candidates won. Three Cebuanos were handpicked that night and let’s congratulate LORD MATURAN, LORY VILLAREAL and PHILLIP TAMPUS.

The Project Runway Philippines Season One pilot episode aired last July 31 at ETC with Joji Lloren as mentor. Top model and lifestyle feature writer Apples Aberin-Sahdwani and fashion designer Rajo Laurel served as resident judges while Teresa Herrera hosted …

 When Ayala announced a Bridal Road Show, it wasn’t just like the ones at Stylewatch where beauties strut onstage and model designer’s wares. plethora of wedding concepts were all splayed at the first and second floor of almost all wings of Ayala Center where sought-after wedding related businesses have gone to great lengths just to decorate and show off.