Fashion

Two Filipino Americans from Chicago who turned the 20-letter Filipino alphabet into a streetwear brand, threading Baybayin script, jeepneys, and sampaguita through hoodies and jerseys so the diaspora always has a way to wear where they’re from.

A Navy nuclear engineer turned industrial designer who launched a fashion brand during a pandemic, driven by a single conviction: if Filipino Americans won’t put their own textile heritage in the spotlight, nobody will.

A Filipino-founded brand built on a single radical idea: that clothing should give you time back, not take it away. Now dressing people in 58 countries from a Seoul flagship designed by David Chipperfield Associates.

A Manila-based fashion studio that works backwards from the artisan’s hand, building womenswear from indigenous Philippine textiles in collaboration with the weavers, embroiderers, and craftspeople who have held these traditions for generations.

A Marikina studio putting natural fibers where leather used to be — and making bags that look like nothing else in the room.

The house that cultured the golden South Sea pearl, and turned Philippine waters into a wellspring of fine jewelry.

Square toes, fish skin, deadstock leather — shoes that look like they've always existed in Marikina, made by the hands that kept the tradition alive.

Handwoven Indigenous Philippine textiles turned into fashion, by a Filipinx woman who believes Indigenous is the future

A Filipino American social enterprise built from a single ask: a Kalinga weaver who asked someone to carry her fabric across the ocean — and a Harvard-trained museum director who said yes, and never stopped.

Two fabric obsessives who started sewing for friends — and accidentally built one of Manila's most beloved luxury leisurewear brands.

A Manila-born, Toronto-based curator who spent a decade championing Filipino artists through VINTA Gallery, then turned the lens on herself and built a fashion brand for women who dress with intention and answer to no one.

She started with a rented sewing machine and ₱15 an hour — now Forbes calls her work an immediate show stopper.