Creative Careers Ahead for Young Ilonggo Fashion Designers

Fashion is a very fast-paced and exciting business, but it is also very competitive. To succeed you will need to be both highly skilled and highly talented.

In Iloilo, there are so many talented fashion designers right now, and it is surely tough to sort through them all. However, nine BS Fashion Design and Merchandising students of Iloilo Science and Technology University (ISAT-U) will prove their claim on the runway for the 11th Indigenous Fiber Fashion Fair on August 24 – 26, 2018 at the north wing of SM City Iloilo.

Fritz Caancan, Johnrey Cayanan, Rheuvien Palmes, Migz Saracho, Matt Yeu, Annie Canonaso, Lorlor Aguilar, Paul Encio and Jay Elabra are determined to push their boundaries even further with emphasis on Ilonggo hand-loom fabric’s original quality. Coming from different towns and city in Iloilo, they will be creating their careers ahead with their debut segment Habol Aninipay for this year’s Indigenous Fiber Fashion Fair.

These nine student-designers have long dreamt of a career in fashion design. They live and breathe for fashion and textiles. They sew your own designs and keep tabs on what the apparel industry is doing this season.

Fashion design is a very technical field that suits students who are highly creative and full of new ideas, but who are also precise in their sewing and measurements and have good attention to detail.

Their educational background with ISAT-University’s BS Fashion Design and Merchandising has required them with disciplines of traditional design and technical skill sets along with product development, and creative problem solving and commercial application skills.  providing students with a multifaceted educational experience.

The students-designers have developed their personal aesthetics, intellectual, analytical and technological abilities in their degree program of fashion designing and merchandising. Their course provided them with a multifaceted educational experience.

For Habol Aninipay, some of them will incorporate prints by creating simple designs, and others will have sexy but elegant and sophisticated lines. But all of them will focus their attention to details, with great thoughts invested into their designs and finishing of each garment. Now here are nine of the many young Ilonggo Designers fashion designers in Iloilo to watch out for.

The 11th Indigenous Fiber Fashion Fair will open on August 24 (Friday) and features MARC ARNEL GACHO for PRECIOSA at 5:30 p.m. ANYAG at 6:30 p.m. will have FRIETZ VON PAMPLONA.

August 25 (Saturday) with HABOL MIAGAOWANON featuring the candidates of Little Miss Hablon and the ladies of Lin-ay sang Hablon of the municipality of Miagao at 5:00 p.m. and KEVIN HIBALLES for HABLON MODA at 6:30 p.m.

August 26 (Sunday) will feature the top student designers from the BS Fashion Design and Merchandising of Iloilo Science and Technology University (ISAT-U) for HABOL ANINIPAY with Fritz Caancan, Johnrey Cayanan, Rheuvien Palmes, Migz Saracho, Matt Yeu, Annie Canonaso, Lorlor Aguilar, Paul Encio and Jay Elabra at 5:00 p.m. and closing the event is DARYL AMAR for PRIMA at 6:30 p.m.

The annual Indigenous Fiber Fashion Fair is organized by the Iloilo Provincial Tourism Office, Department of Tourism and SM City Iloilo and also brought to you by the municipalities of Miagao, Oton, Badiangan, Igbaras and Duenas with the Fashion and Design Merchandising Department of ISAT-University, the Local Economic Development and Investment Promotions Office, John Montinola, Iloilo Models Guild (IMG), RCLS, and The Daily Guardian.