When Cebu Fame hosted the most extravagant and most visited trade show this year, Bijoux Cebu last September 28-29 became a denoument of a year that concluded a large segment of the fashion-system juggernaut yet promised more for the upcoming years. The common thread for all of these shows and among the rest of Cebu fashion that we have witnessed in 2009 is that Cebu will never stop surprising us with so many talented, artistic and creative people. Three fashion shows in a day? Top that, Philippine Fashion Week!

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 …

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 …

STYLISSIMO STYLE SCHOOL is now open to applicants who are interested in enrolling at the following workshops: Fashion Design, Writing, Modeling, Public Speaking and Make up Courses.
Get tips from mentors whose ateliers precede their reputation in the industry as Dexter Alazas, Oj Hofer, and Philip Tampus share their love for Fashion Design.
Ariel Allera together with Miss Earth 2008 Karla Henry, Verns Buckley, Joseph Ong, John Unson, Dan Douglas Ong, Jam Libatog and Jofranz Canizares will teach you to love the ramp in Modeling.

The Creative Writing course will be …

I went around and ambushed-queried most of Cebu’s designers, fashionistas, and my favorite stylish friends of their take on this year’s fashion scene. Eventually, as the year will stretch, we will all come to see the most capped out predictions of all.

What’s up with the fashionsphere this 2009?

FEMININE YET BOLD AND OPTIMISTIC! We’ve seen a lot of peacock colors the last year, I think a good opposition to the bright colors would be next in line for 2009. Neutral shades such as beige expresses a more minimalist look …

Like last year’s, the Bridal Fair culminated in an evening fashion show at the hotel’s lobby featuring the wedding collections of their newly-established Fashion Council of Cebu.
Fascimiles of love perhaps through bridal fair talks were from the following who claim authority on these subject matters, namely: Family Planning & Marriage Licensing Seminar by the Cebu City Health Office; Wedding Etiquette by Maggie Cabrera of Joyful; Making Marriage Work and Home Management by the Cebu City Health Office; Wedding Financing by Metrobank Femme; and Wedding Minutes by Marbee S. Go, editor …