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GREEN COUTURE!

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

What do you get when you put together 11 highly creative fashion designers and a brief to use “recycled” materials for the clothes? Well, you get GREEN COUTURE! Leave it to Ms. Candy Dizon to come up with an event that not only will raise awareness for the environment, but also raise funds for the Waldorf School.

This was my gown for the show! It is made from a lot of plastic bags!

The back view! It was as if I raided an entire town's fiesta and got all the banderitas! LOL!

The venue during the rehearsals!

The loot bags!

I like the set up! It felt like a salon show.

The cocktail crowd!

The lady of the hour! So happy that she in in my Thripps dress from Plains and Prints!

Candy's main squeeze Andreas in RAJOMAN!!! Thank you!

My dear Tita Natty Pappas with her beautiful daughter Christina.

Some of Manila's most talented designers who lent their creativity selflessly that evening! Jojie Lloren, James Reyes, Ivarluski Aseron. Stylebible's Jae Pickrell and Dennis Lustico.

Chic ladies that night! Christine and Lucille! I love how they are spot on trend! Color blocking and stripes!

The materials used that evening run the gamut from sippy straws, rice sacks, flour sacks, newspapers, paper cups, twine, shower curtains, plastic bags, bottle caps…and many many more! It felt like a real life project runway challenge. The major difference was that Both Jojie Lloren and I were part of it! LOL!

I was given the task to create a gown using plastic bags. I wanted something very colorful and fun at the same time. I used around 16,000 pieces of this plastic bag and created a gown that spelled exuberance!

A gown made from plastic table cloth.

These look like comic book covers from India?

I love Tippi Ocampo's rice sack dress! It was so chic!

Rice sack dress detail!

James Reyes did dresses using bubble wrap! It took all my strength not to pop one bubble! I loved his neckpiece!

Puey's paper cup sculptured dress.

James moulded neck piece using plastic bags. His dress looked fully beaded on stage.

This dress by Patrice Ramos-Diaz was made from recycled black T-shirts! I heard it got sold that very night! It had super nice textures!

My model that night was no other than Ms. Ria Bolivar!

The energy that night was so calm and cool!

This is Michi Calica- Sotto's design! It made lovely sounds!

This Jojie Lloren gown was amazing! It was made from plastic twine!

Dennis Lustico' s creation was made from flour sacks!

RIa in full fighting form!

I love how Ria emotes as her hair is being fixed!

Dennis' gown detail.

Beautiful back detail!

Ria practices her walk!

Ivar's gown was so lovely! It was made from metal bottle caps and garbage bags!

The event was directed by Robby Carmona and he transformed the Rigodon ball room of the Manila Peninsula into a green haven! The show had a really happy vibe to eat! Everyone was relaxed! It felt like the days when we were all young designers in a design competition as we were creating these dresses from the most unusual materials. Here are some photos from Green Couture! Congratulations Candy! Thank you for having us!

Dennis and Ivar with our beloved director!

Cynthia Alexander's beautiful voice and songs serenaded the crowd before the show started!

The show!

Ria does her thing! I LOVE HER!!!

HUGS!

RAJO!

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The plastic bag dress!

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

My friend, Candy Dizon should be proclaimed an Ambassador of the Earth! Last year, she had an extremely successful tree planting event. This year, she is organizing a fashion show called Green Couture! Rounding up some of the Philippines’ best fashion designers in creating dresses made from trash! When Candy asked me to join, I said yes without even hesitating! I think this is going to be a really fun and worthy cause. The details of the events are attached below and I am asking all of you to please help Candy make this event a resounding success! Tickets are at 1,000 pesos each and you can get in touch with Candy via dizon.candy@gmail.com. See you all there!

This is the dress that I will be making! It is made from around 1000 plastic/sando bags!

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Candy Dizon’s Tree Planting project!

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

My dear friend and Jewelry designer Candy Dizon is doing this tree planting project and I am more than excited for her! Anything that can help mother earth in her fight to be strong for future generations I am so in! I am encouraging all of you who pass by my blog to come or to do something similar for our earth! I am so very proud of Candy and all her valiant efforts for this I am sure 10,000 blessings will come her way! This was her e-mail to me! Please pass it on! Save the Date JULY 24 from 6am to 2pm! See you all there!

Help me save the Earth!

Tree Planting and Nurturing in the Mt. Makiling Forest Reserve (MFR)
in cooperation with Makiling Center for Mountain Ecosystems.

Generally, this project aims to reforest an open area in MFR
Specifically, it aims to:
1) Plant 1,000 indigenous seedlings in Year 2010;
2) Serve as a show window/demonstration area of a successful tree planting project;
3) Contribute in climate change mitigation; and
4) Improve the ecological balance and environmental condition of the area.

Ayala land allocated 4,000 square meters for this tree planting and I need 100 participants who will help me in this project.

P750.00/person entitles you to 10 seedlings, bus transportation (meeting place to follow) breakfast and lunch.

The Earth and I thank you in advance for giving support by joining!!!

Candy Dizon

HUGS!

RAJO!

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SEX & THE CITY!

Friday, June 4th, 2010

I am a HUGE, as in MASSIVE, FAN of Sex & The City! I practically devoured each episode when it was showing on HBO! I took down notes with each episode of places to visit in NYC and jotted down fashion trends as dictated by the show’s stylist Patricia Field. I fell in love with the MOVIE and I even bought the book that it was based on. So you can just imagine how excited I was when I heard about the sequel!

I was invited to 3 movie premieres of the movie sequel! However, I was NOT able to see the movie!!! To make a long story short, every movie premier fell on a night that I also had a really important dinner engagement that I had to attend to! I did get to attend most of the pre-movie-cocktail party which was pretty fun but I STILL HAVE YET TO SEE THE MOVIE!

The last two invites happened on the same day and the same time and practically 30 meters from each other! These were the PREVIEW and MERCEDES BENZ premieres. Since they were really so close to each other, it was a breeze to attend both events. I started with the Preview party and had a glass of champagne! How chic is that? Then I moved to the Mercedes party, which was actually the very first one to invite me so I thought that it was just polite to stay a this party longer.