The past features have all been about current Atenean fashionistas and trends. Let us now see how fashion is prominent even after graduation by featuring Ateneans who have made their marks in the fashion industry or have created a fashion trend of their own. Kudos to them!
Tricia Gosingtian
Graduated BFA: Information Design
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Tricia Gosingtian is a 22 year old fashion blogger. This Filipino-Chinese was invited by Tumblr to attend the ever popular New York Fashion Week among 23 others and surprisingly enough she was the only Asian invited by the company. She was of course humbled by this experience and quote: “Blogging can get you to so many places nowadays”, which of course can be interpreted literally, figuratively or even digitally. Yet she reiterates that she’s not a fashion setter but just a fashion blogger, taking pictures of what she thinks is fashionable since photography was her real passion. This just means that fashion does not only end in Ateneo but goes beyond college life, it might be life itself. From team fashion blogger of Bluestylebubble like yourself: Congratulations and we hope you inspire fashionistas out there to follow their passion and find joy and satisfaction with the things they are happy doing.
Tricia Gosingtian won the Loyola Schools Awards for the Arts (LSAA) for Photography, the first Filipino and Asian that got into the top 10 aof Lookbook.nu, the world’s biggest source of fashion inspiration and Manila’s Top Fashion Blogger, among others.
Find out more about Tricia Gosingtian and her site called “tricia will go places” at: http://blog.triciagosingtian.com/
Reese Fernandez-Ruiz
Graduated BS: Management
Reese Fernandez-Ruiz is a co-founder of a company called Rags2Riches a social enterprise that caters to Payatas mothers who made rags and rugs out of patches of cloth and sold for a living. After countless middlemen scammed the mothers by selling to them high priced raw materials from dumpsites, Reese Fernandez-Ruiz helped these mothers by devising a system in getting the raw materials directly and cheaply from the source of origin. Because of this, mothers have earned a living by efficiently harnessing their skills at weaving into creating bags and wine holders. During her talk in Ugnayan (An ADMU-DLSU summit), the concept was simple. Imagine a simple rug being shaped into a wine holder which sells at around Php 700 from a simple Php 30 rug. Some of their handbag collections are designed by famous fashion designers such as Rajo Laurel, Amina Aranaz-Alunan and Oliver Tolentino and are sold worldwide. Fashion therefore can be a means in helping the less fortunate and creating opportunities for poor people. As mentioned by Resse Fernandez-Ruiz, we can start helping by just doing simple things and indeed, this humbling thought has made her reach places most people in her age cannot even go to.
Reese Fernandez-Ruiz is one of the five Young Laureates by Rolex Watches for their Rolex Awards for Enterprise
Find out more about Reese Fernandez-Ruiz and her being a Young Laureate for Rolex at: http://young.rolexawards.com/laureates/reese_fernandez#;
and about Rags2Riches at: http://rags2riches.ph
Sources for the Article:
Gosingtian, Tricia. “Lessons from New York Fashion Week .” philSTAR.com: The Filipino Global Community. Philstar, 01 Apr 2011. Web. 16 Sep 2011. <http://www.philstar.com/article.aspx?articleid=671759>.
Viloria, Barry Cyrus. “Much ado about Tricia Gosingtian’s ‘PH not fashion forward’ comment.” ABS-CBNnews.com. ABS-CBN Interactive, 12 Apr 2011. Web. 16 Sep 2011. <http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/04/12/11/much-ado-about-tricia-gosingtians-ph-not-fashion-forward-comment>.
Sources for the Photos:
For Tricia Gosingtian inclusive:
Viloria, Barry Cyrus. “Much ado about Tricia Gosingtian’s ‘PH not fashion forward’ comment.” ABS-CBNnews.com. ABS-CBN Interactive, 12 Apr 2011. Web. 16 Sep 2011. <http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/04/12/11/much-ado-about-tricia-gosingtians-ph-not-fashion-forward-comment>.
For Fashion Week:
Asmar, Roula. “NEW YORK FASHION WEEK IS HERE – WHEN IS BEIRUT’S?.” FashionBeirut.com . ABS-CBN Interactive, n.d. Web. 16 Sep 2011. <http://fashionbeirut.com/2011/02/ny-fashion-week-is-here-when-is-beiruts/>.
Sources for the Article:
“Rags2Riches Design.” Rags2Riches Design. Rags2Riches Inc., n.d. Web. 16 Sep 2011. <http://rags2riches.ph/story>.
“Rolex Awards for EnterpriseL Young Laureates Programme: Reese’s Project.” Rolex Awards for EnterpriseL Young Laureates Programme. Rolex Awards, n.d. Web. 16 Sep 2011. <http://young.rolexawards.com/laureates/reese_fernandez#>.
Sources for the Photos:
For Reese Fernandez-Ruiz:
“GO NEGOSYO: WEAVING RAGS, EMPOWERING PEOPLE, PROTECTING THE PLANET.” PHILIPPINE HEADLINE NEWS ONLINE. PHILIPPINE HEADLINE NEWS ONLINE , 19 Sep 2010. Web. 16 Sep 2011. <http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/hl/hl110066.htm>.
For Rags2Riches:
Ruiz, Mark. “R2R’s Spring/Summer Collection and Eco-Ethical Style Advocacy Launched.” ruizmark.com. ruizmark.com:WordPress, 26 Mar 2010. Web. 16 Sep 2011. <http://ruizmark.com/2010/03/26/r2rs-springsummer-collection-and-eco-ethical-style-advocacy-launched/>.
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