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Robin Tomas How does one reinvent a piece as basic as the T-shirt? For New York-based Filipino designer Robin Tomas, the answer wasn’t easy to find and yet he won the “Best in Reinvention of the T-shirt” award at the fourth Supima Design Competition held last January 2010 in New York. Considered the “‘cashmere of cotton,” ...

Juhea Kim “I’m not a girly girl, so there isn’t much thrill in creating frilly and feminine things, but ideas for men’s clothing just come to me naturally, all the time.” Young Korean American designer Juhea Kim is sharp, smart and while shy in the interview, is unabashedly honest when it comes to voicing what she ...

It started in 2009 and was an immediate success. Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue, launched Fashion’s Night Out, the first ever global shopping event, as a way to revive the fashion industry in the midst of the global economic recession. For one night of the year, stores stayed open til 11pm and shopping turned into ...

I was lucky to be in New York last week when the city was buzzing about the fashion extravaganza about to take place. Held at Lincoln Center on September 7, “Fashion’s Night Out: The Show “was the largest ever public fashion show organized by Vogue and CFDA to kick off New York’s Fashion’s Night Out, ...