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For artist Ana La O’, sometimes control is best left to chance and life decisions to statement T-shirts

Artist Ana La O’s obsession with the unpredictability of reactive dyes and statement T-shirts as signs flourish in her new collection “Emotional Labor”

A young designer’s mission to deromanticize piña fabric

When you think of dark, romantic fashion, British designer Alexander McQueen’s imagery comes to mind;…

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Architect Carlo Calma on the dynamism of architecture

Provocation is a two-way street in Carlo Calma’s approach to architecture. His style of blurring…

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner is the funny, smart, feminist writer you should be reading right now

I hadn’t read Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel “Fleishman Is In Trouble” yet, but that didn’t…

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Masungi Georeserve proves conservation and land development can jibe

Nature has always been Ann Dumaliang’s playground. When she was a child, quality time with…

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Have you ever tried harp therapy?

“Take a seat. I’ll play for you.” We’d been at the harp and lyre maker…

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How Felicia Atienza treads a conscious path to conservation

It is a typical chaotic day in Manila: cars rushing and weaving through the roads,…

These Filipina riders are changing the way we look at motorcycles

I enjoyed watching American Choppers as a kid whenever it aired on the Discovery Channel.…

Seeing artist Gregory Halili through his collection of eyes

The Sunday we were there, the home had settled into bucolic bliss. Gregory Halili’s house…

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What does artist Manix Abrera think of the comic industry today?

It’s a punishingly hot Saturday and it seems like all the geeks in the Philippines…