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ANNEBISYOSA!

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Last Saturday was a magical day for Ms. Anne Curtis! Basically her dream came true! It’s not everyday that you get to witness a dream coming true to the magnitude that is Anne Curtis. I was really privileged to have been part of that dream as both her stylists called on me to create 2 looks for what I think is ”The most fashionable concert in Philippine History”. I am no stranger to the local concert scene as I have been lucky enough to dress up a lot of artists in the country.

This was one of the gowns that I did for Anne! It's our homage to modern royalty! Normally, it takes me around 3 months to make this but I cannot believe that we did this in 3 days! Granted I had my staff work round the clock to get to the finish line! The dress was so large that it occupied a small room in Araneta! LOL!

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The BLACK EYED PEAS Experience part 2

Friday, October 28th, 2011

The BEP concert was really such a super amazing experience! I think it was different because The Black Eyed Peas group was emotional. I heard that after this concert, they will be taking a break. Most of the members wanted to pursue other advocacies and other dreams and I think that although it is sad for us fans, I do have to commend them for doing so. A life has to be lived and if it means taking a breather to do so, then so be it!

They were all such giving performers.

Taboo looks like he is waving at me! LOL!

So cool it is painful!

Shaking her booty!

LOVE these guys!

Raise your hands!

D+V!!!!

This is the N+R version! LOL!

We were all so happy!

She was rocking this pink dress! Tessa wants her own!

It lit up in the dark!

Fergie has an amazing voice!

This was so cool! I think it was either Wil I Am or Apl de Ap in there! Can anyone verify?

The guys in the building behind must have had a great free show! Those were good seats with aircon pa! LOL!

ROBOCOP MUCH!

Then came some Latin horns!

And a super talented guitar player!

The show was unusual because it was longer than I expected. We were still partying till 11pm and the BEP were giving it their all! My favorite part of the show was the Filipino tribute done by Apl de Ap! I feel this man is a modern day hero to all Filipinos living out their dreams! He showed us all that despite his very challenging beginning in life, that if we work hard and dream harder, then we all can end up like him! This really made me tear up as we were all up there with him celebrating our Filipino culture and our heritage.

Apl de Ap has given back to his community and to his country in enumerable ways and now he has another campaign up his sleeves. His “You Can Be Anything” campaign! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ds5ZdWp_4. I love the message and I will in my little way support it! He makes me super proud to be Filipino and this is very important.

Costume change no. 3

I loved this moment with the phones in the night sky!

Spotted JMO with Luca!

Images of Apl de Ap as a child!

So heart moving!

Here he is explaining his mission! BRAVO!!!

This was my personal highlight of the show!

The best experiences in life leave you excited, exhilerated, energized and pumped up and inspired! All this I got from my BLACK EYED PEAS experience! I wish you all could have been there to share this with me!

Then the party started again!

My girls!

Final costume change!

Check out Fergie's nails!

The scene!

Love her modern 50's hair do! Judy Jetson much?

Taboo!

Malu and I partying away!

Nix and Maluey!

Confetti finale!

The guys of BEP loving MANILA!!!!

Then the night sky ended up in fireworks! WOW! That was a super concert!!!!!

HUGS!

RAJO!

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BLACK EYED PEAS Experience part 1

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

I LOVE THE BLACK EYED PEAS! Listening to their music makes me happy and I practically listen to them every other day as it is the best cardio music in the world! Their music is infectiously happy and their message is always positive.

I have never seen them perform live so when the opportunity came that they were having a concert in Manila, I was not going to pass on this chance. Good thing, my friends all had the same idea so our sea princess, Tessa Valdes arranged everything and got us great seats! Although the mosh pit seemed like the best idea, I was perfectly content where we are.

Nix with my Cebuano gals! BOM and Pau! I adore them! I also love how the BEP song Boom-Boom ! Pow! is like an homage to their energy!

Spotted my friends Leo, Vic, JP and Eric.

These girls were ready to party! Leah and Raya! So pretty and fun!

Scored my ticket! YAHOO!

My Sea Princess Tessa was already in a Halloween mood!

Here she is with one of the best Governors we have in the country! Gov. L-Ray Villafuerte.

My darling Malu joined our gang! I can feel the party starting!

Check out the nails of Tessa attached to her Halloween gloves!

The traffic was horrendous as it seemed all roads led to the Mall of Asia concert grounds. The weather was cooperating as there was this cool October breeze in the air. I can feel Christmas already. LOL!

The stage!

This cool air soon changed with the intensity of the Black Eyed Peas! I felt like I was in a circuit training of sorts. We would be jumping up and down and they would give everyone a few minutes of rest. LOL! I loved it! It was the perfect work out ever! Jumping up and down with their music and gyrating to the beat. It was like a open air club.

The speakers transformed into the dancers!

Will.I.Am is like a computer when he sings!

The costumes were great! Military future! I like how the lights reflected on it.

I love Fergie!

She is such a cool girl!

Her voice is pam-birit! Bagong kampyon levels!

Apl.de.Ap is a Filipino HERO!

This section was all about Will.I.AM!

Change costume!

Rick Owen or Gareth Pugh on Taboo?

Apl de Ap has boundless energy!

I hear he can out party anyone!

He really made sure we all had a great time! Seeing him makes me a really proud Pinoy!

Fergie's costume change! I love how she is looking at me in this shot! I LOVE YOU FERGIE!!!!!!

HI!

She has great abs!

Boundless energy!

What I love about the BEP is the diversity they represent. They all come from different backgrounds and cultures yet they all work together seamlessly and create the most amazing music that will have them enshrined in musical history forever.

I felt a bit emotional with the show because I heard that BEP will be taking a hiatus to give time for all the members to pursue other dreams and advocacies. There was a moment on stage that Fergie’s voice was shaking saying she will miss her brothers. I felt for them as they are like family to each other.

What a super show!

The lighting was really good!

THE BLACK EYED PEAS!!!! They all mentioned their favorite Pinoy dishes. Taboo- Dinuguan! Will I am - Chicken Adobo! Fergie - Nilaga! Apl de Ap - Bistek tagalog!

HANEP!

I have to create 2 entries for my experience as I have loads of photos to share. I hope you enjoy the photos as much I as had fun taking them. I have a tip for you: blast on some BEP music as you take a look at the photos for a more joyful experience!

HUGS!

RAJO!

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LEA SALONGA is on PEREZ HILTON’S BLOG!

Friday, December 18th, 2009

OMG! I got so excited when I found out that my darling friend Lea Salonga was in Perez Hilton’s infamous blog. Then I thought, OH NO! Perez can get very nasty! I was so relieved when I read that he loved it and even said that she was AWESOME! I mean Hello?! Lea is AWESOME! I just wanted to share this precious bit of info. I love how Lea just makes everything so classy! That’s all!

lea salonga sings lady gaga perez hilton

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HUGS!
RAJO!

Tags: concert, Fashion Insider, friends, Lady Gaga, Lea Salonga, Perez Hilton, rajo laurel, youtube
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The Killers in Manila!

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

The Killers are going to be in Manila! Mark all your calendars, people, because this is a concert that all of you should not miss! Be smart and get your tickets early! I have a good feeling that this will be a major hit! My good friend Robby Carmona, purveyor of all things amazing and fabulous, will be taking The Killers to town! I love their songs even if I never knew the name of the band. When I told my team that they were coming, they all SHRIEKED in delight! As in, complete with shaking and jumping up and down!!!! LOL! That much excitement made me want to see them even more! I have attached the details in this entry! Be smart and see the show! ….NOW NA!

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Lea Salonga…Your Songs!

Monday, December 14th, 2009

I have been so busy these past few days that I have not been able to blog! The Christmas season is my busiest month, filled with events, weddings, parties…CRAZY TRAFFIC! LOL! One of my most recent projects involved me doing the clothes for Ms. Lea Salonga‘s latest concert. Lea and I have known each other for more than 30 years! We were both child actors in Repertory Philippines. She played the lead princess in The King and I and I was a “dakilang extra”! LOL! From the moment I met her, I have been a HUGE fan! I have all her records and I try to watch all her shows! I have the great fortune of making most of her clothes for her shows and I love every moment of it!

The show was under the musical helm of Gerard Salonga and the Filharmonika!

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Tags: Ai Ai De Las Alas, Bobby Garcia, concert, costume, Fashion Insider, Gerard Salonga, Jeffrey Aromin, Juan Sarte III, Lea Salong, rajo laurel, Your Songs
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Rock & Fashion for a Cause!

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Rock and Roll plus Fashion is always a good mix! After getting well from the flu and feeling so much better (Thank GOD!), I decided to pop in at the HOY HOY ONDOY event! It was spearheaded by Tim Yap, Jay Ortega (who incidentally is the director for Project Runway Philippines season 2) and Saga Productions!

The event was a combination of many things! First, it was fundraising and awareness campaign to continue to help the victims of the flood. Second, it was a ROCK CONCERT! There were so many rock bands that donated their time and talent for FREE so that the organizers could raise some major MULAH! All the proceeds of the event would be going to the RED CROSS! Finally, there was a fashion angle. Fashion people also came in full force as top Philippine designers joined in to donate their creations and had a silent auction.

The crowd was a wonderful motley crew of a rockers, fashion folk, young business men and many more. I loved looking at the crowd and generally got a high from seeing that all these people really wanted to help out! By 11 pm, they had collected close to 250 thousand pesos from donations! How wonderful is that? I slipped out soon after that as I did not want a relapse of my flu! However, as I was leaving the event, all I could fee was JUBILATION!

The rock scene! I loved the chill vibe of the crowd enjoying the cool music!

The dance group Pinoy All Stars were there! These hip-hop dancers are just AMAZING!

Head organizer Tim Yap with super model/host Joey Mead! (Joey's family home was flooded badly.)

Nix and Joey! The look of ROCK-CHIC!

Tim with the super pretty Heart Evangelista.

The Fashion Angle!

Dr. Khaz! He has been sharing his services pro-bono in several relief centers around the metro!

Top Models Sanya & Mia collecting donations at the front door!

Divine Lee won the auction for my gold gown! I think it's a perfect match!

Cool installation!

The new fashion tribe! Em, Martin and Veejay!

Super cool dude Illac Diaz was there!

Relief good ready to be shipped out to the victims! Love the fact that the bags were not plastic!

Mobilizing the goods!

BIG HUGS!
RAJO!

Tags: benefit, charity, concert, fashion, Fashion Insider, music, rajo laurel, rock, typhoon ondoy
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LADY GAGA!

Friday, August 14th, 2009

I was so lucky to have been able to watch the concert of Lady Gaga! We had Freaking FRONT row seats! The tickets were given to me by my darling friend, the stunning Ruffa Gutierrez. Lady Gaga was everything and more! She really gave everyone a good show! We were on our feet dancing away from the very minute she sang her opening song all the way to the end! I loved the energy! The entire Araneta Coliseum was full to the rafters and you could feel the whole place just gyrating to Lady Gaga’s music!

It was a really fun experience, and a couple of my friends even said that they were “bitin,” but I always feel and think that the best shows are those you leave wanting more!

Ruffa in full "fight"mode complete with the "taras-vulva" hair style. I think she was chanelling the 80's!

Ruffa in full "fight"mode, complete with the "taras-vulva" hair style. I think she was channeling the '80s!

My concert partners! Ruffa & Robbie!

The new Pussy-cat dolls! LOL! Ruffa's gal pasl were in shades of grey! Charina, CJ and Alta. (heck even I was in grey! LOL!) It was as if they all had this inner memo! Cut 0ff jeans and grey!

The new Pussycat Dolls! LOL! Ruffa's gal pals were in shades of gray! Charina, CJ and Alta. (Heck, even I was in grey! LOL!) It was as if they all had this inner memo! Cutoff jeans and gray!

When we walked in the coliseum, everyone was there! It was like a gigantic party! We bumped into my friend Jeff from Japan! Who I need to catch up with!

Then I saw National artist for fashion! Pitoy Moreno! I love the fact that he was so game to watch the Gaga Girl! LOL!

Then I saw our National Artist for Fashion! Pitoy Moreno! I love the fact that he was so game to watch the Gaga Girl! LOL!

Check out the Araneta Coliseum full to the brim!

First act! We were on the first seats but on the extreme right!

Her first song was Paparazzi!

Her outfit was made from this reflective material. I liked the shape that it created.

Her energy was like amazing! I was in complete awe of her!

Art shots....Kuno!? LOL! I like this photo though.

Caught in the crowd: Tim Yap and the beautiful Anne Curtis.

Her second set was all about studs and denim! My goodness, even her crotch had studs! LOL!

Only The Gaga can pull of a peaked shoulder all in one!

Her mike stand was fierce!

3rd outfit reminded me of Alexis Carington Colby of Dynasty without the skirt! LOL!

It had a Claude Montana vibe!

One of the final looks!

The dancers were also very good!

I swear that she looked at me at I took this shot and gave me a wink!

I swear that she looked at me as I took this shot and gave me a wink!

KC was rocking herself in a frenzy! Loved the accessory of the night! A disco wand!

The evening night of beauties! LOL! Thanks Jenny, Ria et all! Big hugs!

HUGS!
RAJO!

Tags: Anne Curtis, concert, Fashion Insider, friends, KC Concepcion, Lady Gaga, music, rajo laurel, Ruffa Gutierrez
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Journey!

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

I was given free tickets to watch the band Journey last Saturday! I have a confession to make: I am the farthest thing from a rock and roller, and I kind of know the songs of Journey, but I was not really a fan. My ’80s music was more of the New Vave variety, like The Cure and Siouxsie and The Banshees. LOL!

Being the “Kaladkarin” that I am, I was not going to pass up an opportunity of a free ticket! LOL! I also wanted to experience for myself the powerful voice of Arnel Pineda! For all of you who do not know the fantastic story of Arnel Pineda, do not worry – a documentary is now in the works and the movie on his story will be out soon enough. In the meantime, log on to YouTube and search for him to hear his amazing voice. I had goose bumps the minute he started to perform! Every inch of my body would tingle with pride when he would shout “para sa iyo ito, PILIPINAS!” I wanted to be part of that momentous occasion. Even if I didn’t know all the songs of Journey, I was still so ecstatic to be there!

My photos were not that great, so I lifted and borrowed these from my friends Cyrene de la Rosa and JJ Yulo! They had better seats and better photos than me! LOL!

: So proud of this man! Makes me really proud to be PINOY!

The weather was perfect and the audience area was full to the perimeters!

HUGS!
RAJO!

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The Chris Brown & Rihanna concert!

Monday, November 17th, 2008

We were so excited for the Chris Brown and Rihanna concert yesterday! It was as if we were just preparing for it the whole day. I have to be honest that I was not so familiar with most of their songs, so we looked for their CD’s and did a crash course on their music.

We decided to go early as we heard from friends that the traffic was getting scary. Everything went on smoothly and went to our designated standing room only area. A couple of my friends had seats (Bleacher seats) but I found this far from the stage so we decided to just stand nearer to the stage.

At around 8:10 it started, a man came descending from the top of the stage inverted, like some urban Batman. He then started to be joined by hooded dancers and did a really cool number, I thought that
it was just an opening act but NO! It was Chris Brown himself!

Opening number: Chris Brown descending like an urban Batman!

He performed for over an hour and I loved his portion! You could really feel that he was giving his all! I loved two portions of his part: the homage to Michael Jackson and the song “With You”! He was really so GALENG! I lost my voice just screaming!

Love this part where he payed homage to the great Michael Jackson!

Fireworks as intermission!

The Rihanna stage!

After his part they transformed the stage for Rihanna. It took quite some time and good thing the producers came out with some fireworks display to entertain the 70,000-strong audience! Personally , I came to see Rihanna as I am more familiar with her songs. She came out looking great! A look that combined S&M bondage with a bit of Alma Moreno (Tangga and all) LOL!

Loving her S&M bondage outfit!

Remember the Tangga? Well, it maybe making a comeback! LOL!

Her first song was Disturbia! It was a great song to open but somehow I felt she was not giving it her all! The Filipino audience is one of the most responsive audiences in the world (I think that is one of the reasons a lot of the foreign artists come to perform here). We are sensitive to the point that if the artist is not in top form we can feel it. I felt that Rihanna was tired. She looked fantastic but she her voice was not in the best shape.