Balik Saya’s project mentor is Filipinana proponent and top designer Jojie Lloren, who also sought the help of production designer Gino Gonzales, co-author of “Fashionable Filipinas: An Evolution of the Philippine National Dress in Photographs, 1860-1960. Read the full article here: http://www.manilatimes.net/balik-saya-design-competition/401294/

Maria Clara is the baro’t saya’s most popular wearer, her favored iteration characterized by designer Jojie Lloren: “The pañuelo is the defining part of it. The top always ends on the waistline. From what I learned from (scenographer and Fashionable Filipinas: An Evolution of the Philippine National Dress in Photographs 1860-1960 co-author) Gino Gonzales during […]

We know it today as the Maria Clara, the three-piece Filipino attire for women consisting of a loose skirt and diaphanous top usually made of cotton or piña with matching embroidered accessory known as the panuelo, but it was simply called baro’t saya by our ancestors during the Spanish colonial period. No one exactly knows […]

It’s been 42 years since The Peninsula Manila hosted its first ever wedding and the hotel marks this milestone event with a special wedding fair   This year marks 42 years since The Peninsula Manila hosted its first wedding reception. To celebrate this milestone event, the hotel is partnering with industry leader Rita Neri Event […]