FUCHSIABOY

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

My OWN Launching

The launching of OWN magazine, my magazine. Thanks to all the people who came, to all the people who helped and to my guardian angels who made it one fantastic party. See you next issue. OWN is available at Jaki Peñalosa Shop, Robinsons Place Iloilo.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

At Airport

The trip was tiring! Cambodian light is different. So bright. The sun was shining but its so cold. Theres no traffic here at Siem Reap.

Hello Cambodia!

Im finally here in Cambodia, specifically at Siem Reap where the world famous Angkor Wat is. It does look like one of the remote province of Iloilo. But with the French influence and the Khmers very rich tradition, the wow factor is there. So much to see, so many things to do (not to mention the shopping!). My host is Loven and Fate Ramos, plus Nina You of the Angkor Silk Festival.

We went around immediately. I havent really sorted out my pix but Im posting some of this really cool place we went to for refreshments called Blue Pumpkin (where we had fish&chips, a smoothie of apple, green peppers and honey!, and ginger&nougatine ice cream), plus some pix at the Ramos home with Fate and Coochie (baby Freedom).

Oh, and the pix of the taxi (with curtains!) from the airport.

Blue Pumpkin

Lounging at Blue Pumpkin

moi!

With Coochie and Ping

moi doing what I do best-read magazines

moi, Loven and Tita Jaki inside the curtained taxi

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

I'm going to Cambodia!

I'm going to Cambodia tomorrow to present my collection entitled "Triumph of Tradition" in Siem Riep for the 4th Angkor Silk Festival from February 1-4. I'm the featured designer on the last day. I particulary used jusi and barong fabric as the main focus of my collection. I wanted to fuse tradition, innocence, religion and futurism into the clothes. It's so cliche but I have been looking and reading stuff about Nicolas Ghesquiere. I guess the futurism part, I got from him. There will be pleated plastic embellishments on the clothes. All the fabrics I used are vintage, a return I guess to my early works involving used materials and found objects. The design highlights the callado or pulled needlework of the fabric.

I'm so excited already to go.

Lunch at Krua Thai with Ms. M

Ms. Marichel Magalona treated me for lunch at Krua Thai. The fish fillet with five herbs was a delicious revelation.

Ms. M

Lunch and coffee with Michael

Had lunch with my good friend Michael at this rundown "bulalo"place where they serve a delicious soup of mixed entrails, meat and skin of beef (?), actually I'm not sure if it's beef or pork. It's some kind of animal though. Then we had coffee, actually, nobody did drink coffee coz I ordered iced chocolate while he got himself some shake. Talked about stuff and all. With all the stress from work and all the things we need to do, I enjoy dropping everything for some unhurried moment of bonding with friends.