Rik Rasos puts Proudrace on a runway the way a person puts their whole heart on a table, open and unbothered about what happens next. By Kobe Janer Rik Rasos learned to love clothes in two rooms. One was his aunt's tailoring shop near his childhood home in Legarda, where he helped out in exchange for being taught, and where he first fell for the way a pattern becomes a garment. The other was wherever his family opened the balikbayan boxes his father sent home from abroad, pac

Kalye Trez Mixtape is Eugene Malabad's real debut, assembled from Manila, his grandfather, and the films he grew up on. By Kobe Janer Nobody becomes themselves from one thing. It is a song, a street, a film watched too young, a grandparent's old stories, all of it layered until a person is the sum of whatever they happened to love. Eugene Malabad built a collection on exactly that. Kalye Trez Mixtape had its runway at MNL Fashion Week 2026 for Kill Joy Studios, put together t

An ode to embracing her own femininity, Queer Notes is the collection Yana Kalaw waited years to show. By Kobe Janer Plenty of Filipino kids learn early that there is a version of themselves the adults prefer. They work out which parts to keep quiet at family lunch, and they get good at it long before they know what they are doing. Yana Kalaw grew up a queer girl in a conservative Catholic world, caught between two sets of rules. There was pressure to seem straight so the adu

In Sampaguita Queenpin, Jayanne Santos takes the Manila noir she was raised on and hands it to somebody it was never written for. By Kobe Janer There is a particular kind of Filipino nostalgia that lives inside a television set. The same shows every night, the volume too loud, the whole family in one room, and the kids on the floor taking it in without knowing any of it would stay. Jayanne Santos grew up on her parents' action films from the late 1960s through the early 1980s

The label's largest collection yet opens in full bloom and ends in dry earth, and Yong Davalos would rather talk about what is already here. By Kobe Janer The country has spent the last few years living inside its own weather. Storms arrive stronger and more often, El Niño dries out the fields, floods take the same neighborhoods twice, and the conversation moves on before anything is fixed. Fashion almost never says anything about it. Yong Studio said something. At 7 p.m. on

The label that started as Filipino streetwear closes the festival with couture-inspired construction and a runway it describes as crazy, sexy, chic. Michele Dee walked as muse. TAGUIG CITY, PHILIPPINES — 06 September 2026 — Proudrace closed MNL Fashion Week 2026 at SMX Aura this evening with a collection built on draping, proportion and reconstruction, pushing the label into couture-inspired construction techniques new to the studio. “My fascination with garment construc

The label opened Day Three with a show built around people moving in and out of a hotel, a collection about diversity, individuality and everyday life shown a little more elevated. Skusta Clee and Flow G performed. TAGUIG CITY, PHILIPPINES — 05 September 2026 — Charlotte Folk opened the third night of MNL Fashion Week 2026 at SMX Aura this evening with a runway staged as a hotel, following different individuals moving in and out of its doors. “We’re really going all out

From underground roots to a global language of Filipino fashion. What happens when the instinct to take things apart becomes a way of understanding how to build something new? For Proudrace, experimentation has always been at the core. Long before fashion became a practice, curiosity about how things were made shaped the designer's approach, from deconstructing fabric and paper to rebuilding them into something unexpected. For Manila Fashion Week 2026, that instinct takes for

For HA.MÜ!, the question arrives at a milestone: nearly a decade of creating, experimenting, taking risks, and building a community around a distinctly playful vision of Filipino fashion. Titled HA? HA.MÜ!, the collection looks inward, asking what exists beneath the visible achievements of a brand. The people who believed early, the risks that didn't always make sense, the difficult seasons, and the countless small decisions that eventually shaped HA.MÜ! into what it is today

For ANTONINA, the answer takes shape in Not Here, the brand’s Spring Summer 2027 collection presented at Manila Fashion Week 2026. Born from a personal need to pause, the collection reflects on the moments when life becomes consumed by work, movement, and the constant pressure of thinking about what comes next. Not Here explores what happens when we allow ourselves to disconnect. Every collection begins with a story. What personal experience, emotion, or cultural reference be

For Charlotte Folk, it starts with the people. The places they come from, the lives they lead, and the individual ways they choose to express themselves. At Manila Fashion Week 2026, Charlotte Folk presents a collection shaped by the people the brand has encountered, the places it has traveled, and the different lifestyles it has experienced. Rooted in its philosophy of elevated everyday essentials, the collection explores diversity, movement, and individuality while staying

This tension between the organic and the brutalist, the rural and the urban, the natural and the industrial continues to define Lorico's approach to design. At Manila Fashion Week 2026, the designer returns to this intersection with a collection that looks back toward nature. It is both a return to familiar ground and an exploration of how opposing environments can coexist, collide, and create something new. For Lorico, design is never fixed. The brand functions as an incubat

On grief, transition, humor, and finding beauty in the in-between. Some of life's most profound moments happen in spaces we don't always know how to name. The pause between what was and what comes next. The uncertainty before a new chapter begins. The quiet space where grief and hope can exist at the same time. For RANDOLF, that space became the starting point for The Waiting Room, the collection presented at Manila Fashion Week 2026. The collection was born from a deeply per

There is a particular kind of Filipino nostalgia found in the action films of the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Manila after dark. Sampaguita sellers outside churches. Tailored suits. Street loyalties. Crime, power, and survival. The larger-than-life characters played by icons like Fernando Poe Jr. and Rudy Fernandez became part of the cultural memory of generations of Filipinos. For this designer, those films were more than cinema. They were part of growing up. Watchin

Some memories stay with us in fragments: a song playing in the background, a familiar street in Manila, a piece of clothing we remember seeing, a film that shaped the way we understood growing up. For KILL JOY STUDIOS, these fragments become the foundation of KALYE TREZ MIXTAPE, a collection built from memory, identity, and the places that shape us. Presented at Manila Fashion Week 2026, KALYE TREZ MIXTAPE brings together a personal archive of references. Memories of growing

For one young Filipino designer, fashion becomes a space to confront the versions of ourselves we were once taught to hide. Growing up as a queer girl in a conservative Catholic environment, the designer learned early on that identity could feel like something that needed to be performed. There was pressure to appear “straight,” while another kind of expectation demanded masculinity as proof of queerness. Between these conflicting ideas of conformity, femininity became someth

For Yong Studio, nature has always been more than an inspiration. It is a visual language, a constant source of color, texture, movement, and possibility. Landscapes, rocks, water, plants, and wildlife all offer an abundance of ideas, reminding us that some of the most extraordinary forms of beauty already exist around us. But as climate change continues to reshape the planet, that source of inspiration is becoming increasingly fragile. Forests disappear, biodiversity decline

For nicolò, fashion has always been a study in balance: between form and function, ambition and restraint, experimentation and purpose. At MNL Fashion Week 2026, the designer presents flow state, a collection that turns inward to examine the pressures that come with creativity, growth, and the constant pursuit of achievement. Every collection begins with a story. What personal experience, emotion, or cultural reference became the starting point for the collection you’re prese