Today, we’re talking about travel bags. I find the timing for this post and query quite fitting since I’m planning for a trip that I’ll be taking with the Style Manila flipflop in a few weeks months time. Travel date is still to be determined.
When I mentioned query, I was referring to an email I received from one of Style Manila’s subscribers a couple of days back. And it starts off — Dear Joe… (oh, my humour can be so tacky sometimes, LOL). Oh, blast it. Just read it yourself, …

One of the things that I enjoy about being a woman is our affinity with fashion. Men will never begin to understand the joys of shopping and the act of dressing up but does it really matter? We take pleasure in putting together an outfit, wearing that pair of shoes and lugging around that favourite handbag. Call it superficial but women can argue otherwise.
Among fashionistas, there are shoe people and there are bag people. However, it doesn’t have to be that women stick with their respective preferences but there are …

Interestingly enough, my trip to Promod has been very productive, even when shopping for that pair of jeans at Promod had been unsuccessful. Can you tell I’m still miffed that I wasn’t able to get it? Well, I am. The folks there can attest to my evident disappointment that they offered to give me a call just in case. Ah, well.
Going back on the shopping being productive, not only did I end up with a new pair of flats (which apparently has a name btw, Winnie, it said its …

We interrupt the style sighting posts (yes, there are more posts to come!) to announce: “I Love Green!” Er, that sounds a tad bit silly and unnecessary but bear with me for a few minutes.
Northwest flight 71 touched Manila soil roughly around half past 10 in the evening last Sunday. A very, very wet night and the traffic going to the arrival area was heinous. I wonder if these people weren’t aware that there are two ways to enter the airport; why choose the flyover? Anyway, after a lil over …

Punk. What do you normally associate, fashion-wise at least, with the word? Apart from the music, all I can think of was black, skaterboi-ish-slash-Boy George get up. Affirmed by quite a number of outfits seen during the event, my definition is far from off. But I’m more of the rock chick than an Avril-wannabe, and this was one of the topics that my friend Hannah and I talked about. How do you categorise a particular outfit as punk anyway?

I really can’t set any boundaries for now. I have this faint …

Grey concrete, incessant black and yellow stripes, cold glass windows, metal railings, and the constant cars, buses and jeepneys whizzing past. Welcome to the urban landscape. Though not lacking in colour nor detail, it does make you think of cold, tough detachment. People is key to the connection and their fashion play a notable role in creating the warmth and soul.
Staple to every Urbanista is the “practical” bag. We have to admit that we don’t go clubbing or partying every friggin’ second. Or even be all “fas-yon” each and …

Just got back from the Rexona Lighten Up Event held at the Blue Leaf Pavilion in McKinley Hill (save the CBTL detour-slash-post-event-hangout with Char and Kate — Hi, girls!) and since there is no alcohol in my system plus the adrenalin I got from a small shopping trip earlier, I’m here to do a quick round up of what transpired earlier this evening.

Hosted by Angel Jacob (I just have to say that she looks really gorgeous in that purple number!), the event tackled a topic which has a somewhat sensitive …

One of the things that I was looking forward to doing once I step foot on Baguio soil was to hit the ukay-ukay district. I can still remember the first time I got a taste of this shopping experience on my last trip to the place which was back in 2004.
Twas when I was able to buy a heavy jacket with fur trimmings along the cuffs and detachable hood for Php 500.00 (originally priced at Php 800.00). A bit expensive for something bought in an ukay-ukay shop, I know. …

There’s an inexplicable joy in owning a Louis Vuitton bag on its own but a vintage LV? Now, that’s added bliss.
Personally, I don’t own one. I simply can’t afford it plus the fact that I’m not a bag person. I reckon my mum will find more rhyme and reason in spending X amount of money on a bag but I won’t. My spending preference for bags is still conservatively lower.
I reckon my friend Thea will most likely relate better with my mum. She owns this vintage Louis Vuitton Shoulder …

I came across this event over at Facebook early this evening and it definitely caught my attention. Through it I learned that premier bag designer Amina Alunan-Aranaz had worked together with the empowered women of Payatas in her latest bag collection. Working her magic, the collection will showcase the fusing of scrap materials with her signature mother of pearl components and handcrafted techniques to bring into life an ultra stylish yet sustainable set.
Witness the unveiling of eco-ethical style as Rags2Riches presents its 2009 designer line: RIIR by ARANAZ. An exhibit …