Binghay's priesthood: 50 years and counting
ON THIS particular Sunday afternoon in March, Msgr. Esteban Binghay is sitting on a long lunch table with his brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and a few others he has just reunited at the restaurant of the family-owned Costa Roca Resort in Balamban town, Cebu, the Sanchez-Binghay clan’s...
The visitation
FOUR houses have stories to tell.
Eat, pray, love. The rest is up to God.
Spa kids
HER two-inch pair of gladiator shoes might be a little too fancy for the resort villa—sunny skies over the huts draped with white linen, perfumed fresh with Calachuchi—but eight-year-old Kaila Arriba doesn’t mind walking on the pretty, jagged pavements by the pool.
She is excited, like a...
When Lilac came
THE sporadic shift in hemlines at the beginning of the show hinted at what was to come. When the curtains opened, Philip Rodriguez’s 2012 spring/summer collection was a true feast for the eyes at the Makati Shangri-la in the last quarter of 2011. The early theory: optical illusion. What seemed...
Tears in Singapore
MY SECOND trip to the Lion City was odder than the first.
The concept of “to visit” is considerably different from “to dwell”: to pack my whole life in a suitcase and in the process, learn how to drop the consonant “r” from my vocabulary and adopt a British twang. Or grasp the meaning of...
The Egyptian affair
FIRST, the frock. “I’ve used several lace fabrics before, but this time, the patterns are Egyptian instead of the usual floral,” explains Albert Arriba on the second floor of his atelier that has now become the home to his slinky—some puffy, like cotton candies—floor-sweeping dresses.
The...
Let's get loud
IF YOU go make a mixtape for someone—as I once did—of all the greatest feasts in Cebu, you will soon realize you’re going to need a disc with a lot more space.
Capturing Cebu’s celebrations and entertainment options requires more than just compiling them in discs. It takes, as in the case...
Ripple effect
HUMANA — the Cebuano word for anything that is over—sounded more like a dramatic Parisian expression coming from Arcy Gayatin. This was when she was asked whether she still felt nervous after sending out 30 ladies on a salon-decorated runway. It was a farewell to a certain concept.
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I- protect: P Considering the purchaser
IN EVALUATING trademarks, the courts have strived to place themselves in the shoes of prospective buyers, taking into account “the mythical ordinary purchaser’s capacity to discriminate as well as his propensity for carelessness.” In US cases, the purchaser has been described in various ways....
Dress to thrill
THAT approval of keeping hemlines short—well, for the longest time—is already too predictable, so the fashion designers thought of mincing the trends into something your eyes won’t believe. If not details, at least colors-combinations you less expect to splash, spat, and spin before your eyes....
Just like that
SHOULD the onlookers worry about somebody out-staging the bride, one unsurprising guess emerged—a former Spice Girls singer who refused to smile all throughout the royal ceremony.
Dividends of six
SIX is actually a good number when it comes to playing with ideas and is, for a certain kind of commerce that relies on change, humor, and perfect measurement, a pleasing answer to the lone question: What’s next in fashion?
Tribe of Fancy
The Malaysian Dolls? Suleiman the Magnificent? Leave it to Amano clothing label to take these wildly divergent influences and come up with something that not only holds together, but also jibes with the season’s key trends.
Farewell Wonder Woman
TO REMEMBER Elizabeth “Liz” Taylor with tears is not so Elizabeth Taylor at all. So today—a week after she succumbed to heart ailment—we honor her the way she wants us to: testimonies of every beauty imaginable.
Our lady of all trade
“IF YOU open my refrigerator,” Cutie de Mar pauses and searches for the right words.
She slowly digests her thoughts as this statement might spill a few secrets—on and off camera, in fact—on how she lives her life, not to mention, with little sleep. “You may find Ice cream, chocolates,...
Democractic party
ON THIS this particular afternoon, Rajo Laurel is a little bit restless—like a salesclerk who entertains customers from fitting to purchasing. Had you not known him as the designer to celebrities, you would not realize how lucky you are to have been offered a hand.
This way in
SHOULD you haggle for the latest trends, you might as well do it as the pros do: romance with the new, add passion and excitement to the trend—and a bit of danger, too.
I.Protect: Holistic test
AS discussed last week, the “holistic test” to determine confusing similarity between trademarks states that trademarks are to be compared as a whole as they appear in their respective labels and/or the containers or packages. Jurisprudence says that it should be the over-all impression created...
Why didn’t Natalie Portman wear Dior?
WE didn’t have much difficulty in handpicking our best-dressed celebrities at the 83rd Academy Awards. In fact, this year, it made us believe in love at first sight: Mila Kunis in a lavender lace-chiffon couture frock designed by Elie Saab who strategically wrapped and twisted the bodice with...
Asia major
SHE moved out quietly, but she was making some noise—in a good way—when she returned, this time with a surprise: a different kind of sparkle and a soaring kind of spirit. She was up for the challenge, first in Los Angeles; and next, Asia.
Kids and Yoga
FLEXIBILITY is an advantage that most kids enjoy, so starting it at an early age is already a big step toward healthy and balanced lifestyle. And despite the short attention span caused by online entertainment, it might be just the right cure: yoga plus meditation.
“The benefits of yoga...
Life of the party
IT'S easy to search for serious messages in Elbien Audiencia’s deep fashions. But this month, at least the designer would rather you didn’t. To hear him tell it, the collection for his first line is about serendipity. The goal was to give himself a break; in other words, to try not to try too...
Goodbye, Vogue?
AFTER 10 years of chic, Carine Roitfeld moves out. Is there anything wrong with fashion? In an interview with fashion journalist Dirk Standen, a week after the French Vogue editor-in-chief broke the news, she spilled the beans on why she recently stepped down after 10 years of reigning supreme...
How deep is your love
SHE left “two great relationships”—which could also mean two great lovers—in search of the right fit, just like any regular Cinderella girl would do.
She flew to the Middle East, hoping of finally grasping it; yet her heart was still half-full. The quest was still on until she went back...
Good Romance
WHEN Joan Rivers, the acid-tongued celeb host of Fashion Police, recently complained about long hemlines at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, we instantly knew there was a problem. Boredom for old styles, for one, came into mind.
So we speed-dialed an upcoming talent to save all of you...
