ARTS Q3 PART II

• INNOVATION AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

  • This applied to furniture, lighting, and interior accessories, as well as fashion from haute couture to bridal ensembles to casual wear.
• KENNETH COBONPUE – a multi-awarded designer and creative director of HIVE, a design and manufacturing facility for designers of interior accessories and lighting. His freehand exciting concepts and excellent

  craftmanship have earned him the acclaimed and patronage of discerning clientele the world over- including Hollywood celebrities. Yoda chairs, Carousel Lamps.
• MONIQUE LHUILLIER – hailing from Cebu City, Filipina fashion designer first rose to prominence for her exquisite wedding gowns. She studied at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles and has her own retail boutiques and also in New York.
• JOSIE NATORI – Born Josephina Almeda Cruz in Manila, began her career as an investment banker before she made the dramatic shift to creating her own lines of lingerie, resort and lounge wear as well as semiformal and casual attire. She went on to establish The Natori Company that built lifestyle brand of today, including, lingerie lines, ready-to-wear collection, home accessories, fragrance and eyewear.
• RAJO LAUREL – Best known to public as a judge on the TV series PROJECT RUNWAY PHILIPPINES, a much-admired Filipino fashion designer with numbers of National and International awards to his name. He is a savvy entrepreneur, established House of Laurel and Rajo Laurel Enterprise.
• LULU TAN GAN – Known for her knitwear lines since 1985, had been dubbed as “Queen of Knitwear” The designer’s vision is to encourage the use of stylized indigenous and traditional wear, as she draws inspiration from the rich textile and embroidery traditions of the Philippines. Each Tan Gan creation is 95 % hand-made-hand-loomed (knitted and woven) by Philippine artisans.
• DITA SANDICO-ONG – Known as the “Wrap Artiste” of the

  Philippines for her famous bold-colored wraps. She first

  experimented with the local weave of Ilocos Sur known as

  Inabel, as well as pineapple fibers blended with Irish linen,

  dubbed piñalino.