Fashion-ables News Update:Standing ovation for a Filipino fashion designer at US fashion show

A standing ovation concluded your Pinoy-themed fashion show by Filipino designer Oliver Tolentino held March 26 at your El Paseo Manner Week in Los Angeles, California.Tolentino’s show reportedly exuded an all-Filipino vibe that was headlined through his muse, the Pinay supermodel Tutay Maristela. The show featured the Filipino songs “Waray-Waray” as well as a remix version of Sylvia La Torre’s “Galawgaw” as background music.

According to a report aired in DZMM Teleradyo’s “Radyo Patrol Balita Alas Kwatro” on Monday, El Paseo’s “Designer of the particular Week” presented their more than 60-piece collection before any crowd composed mostly of Americans who were said being impressed by his work. The clothes were said to have been made within any span of four months and with the help of Filipino tailors.




In January 2010, this individual became one of 10 finalists on the Oscars Designer Challenge, where his / her one-of-any-kind piña new and abaca gown gained Hollywood’s attention.
Tolentino became the first Philippines-based designer for you to expand his clothing line in the US when this individual opened his Melrose boutique throughout 2009. Prior in order to this, he gained first prize on the Bali Fashion Week in 2008 for their outfit made regarding Philippine capiz shells.
In an interview aired about “TV Patrol” about Jan. 11, Tolentino shared which his show “is actually gonna be the gala showcasing all the embroidery of Lucban, the fabric of Aklan.” It was also then that the particular Orani, Bataan-native designer was named El Paseo’s “Designer from the Week.”