Fifteen years after Ramon Valera became the only couturier to be conferred the National Artist Award for Fashion Design, the design community is making several bids for the National Artist 2021, and the campaign for the National Artist Awards heats up. There’s talk that the list of nominees has been whittled down to Jose “Pitoy” Moreno and Ben Farrales.

FAB (Fashion+Arts+Business) Creatives, an informal school and mentorship program, has been collecting signatures to endorse Marcelino “Inno” Sotto. Slim’s Fashion and Arts School is putting forward its late founder, Salvacion Lim Higgins (a.k.a Slim).