One of the things I am so grateful I get to do again is dancing. It was one of the many activities I have always wanted to pursue as a hobby but was too shy to do. Since this year has been about me getting in control of my life, I have started dancing again. No matter how shy I am, I did it, ...
There is this chapter in one of my favorite books, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, where she wrote about creativity as a living entity. She’d described it as a creative person’s collaborator. She was inspired to write a novel but after two years of tending to her personal shit and not ...
Aurelia Andrea is reinvented. For quite some time now, I have felt the need to change the face of Aurelia Andrea as it heads off in a slightly different direction. Aurelia Andrea still is a space to explore fashion and culture, mostly that of the Philippines (but not limited to), but a little more ...
Probably the cafe I go to the most lately is the Evil Twins Coffee. Trendy, cool, and chill are probably the words I’d describe this little cafe. New to the streets of Wellington, Evil Twins Coffee understood that they’re in the most competitive cities for coffee. Home of the coffee snobs, I ...
When the pressure of a deadline and influences from tutors disappeared, I formed better ideas for my design concept that I wished I had thought of during class times. The Ube Dress was basically the result of having a zen mind space. It was a culmination of everything I researched about in my final ...
Life is fickle. Last year I was drowning in the “I don’t knows” and the ”whys” trying to survive every day, reminding myself that life is good and that I am lucky to have what I had: a house, a job, a university degree, a family. The past two years emphasized how vulnerable we all are. If we were ...
A cube of various colors organized in 3 by 3 set with the rest of its color clan at their respective sides sits daring anyone passing by to mess up its neatness. A daredevil comes along, picks up the the cube, light in their grasp, dared to twist the colors off various sides. A row of red would ...
I have final arrived at the design I’m hoping. Therefore, what’s left was to clean up the patterns for the final garments to make and submit. The placket I first toiled with didn’t have enough length to cover the raw edges. So I just added extra length. Below is the first two ...
This is the first time I used CLO3D program. I always knew about it but never had the chance to try it out. and since there were only 30 days of trial I can use, I timed it so I can use it for this project. That is if the program is straight forward enough. It took a bit of tutorials before I got ...
The first mentoring session, I knew I needed to ask about the lineup and improve it a little bit. I took Sue’s suggestion to lengthen the dress and make it a maxi length to create drama. Who knew adding a few more centimeters can change the look of a garment. (I always forget this sort of ...