Filipina designer launches award-winning collection at Fashion Week San Diego

Filipina artist and 2020 Fashion Week San Diego (FWSD) Prime Designer Bea Cruz adds to her recognition the Ashley Nell Tipton Leading Designer Award as she launched her most up-to-date assortment at Fashion Week San Diego in California.

Labeled Bright Youthful Matters, a nod to the 1920s phrase that usually means youthful types, the 20-piece sequence encapsulates one particular of the most glamourous a long time in the historical past of manner.

The assemblage characteristics silhouettes and major sparkling hand-sewn beadworks that mark Cruz’s brand name of aptitude, which include a gentle tulle ensemble that dons two kilos really worth of gold crystal seed beads, glittered organza garbs with shoulder trains, white sequined peplum best, skirts and frocks, godet sequined tulle gown and black robes with acrylic chain straps, detachable trains, and beaded bust cups, hem tassels and floor-size gown. 

The line also arrives with a sheer top rated matched with huge-leg trousers, a gold costume with a higher slit, moreover equally refined accents and components this sort of as fringed ostrich feathers, mulberry silk scarf, sheer gloves, and chain belts to full the appears. 

By means of Shiny Youthful Points, Cruz appeared back at the dashing period of alluring skirts, feather headbands, rhinestone parts, prolonged pearls, jazz, and overflowing booze as she dreamed of a excellent long term. 

“It is reminiscent of the time when individuals, right after remaining struck by the Terrific War and the world’s deadliest pandemic, the Spanish flu, craved for light, pace, and celebration of lifestyle. This is so fitting for what we are battling in the existing,” she expounded.

“This assortment is about my vision – the type of everyday living we aspire to acquire again following the coronavirus,” she additional. “I want this will drop a little ray of hope we can maintain on to in these striving occasions, as we have a whole lot a lot more roaring centennial several years to come.”

Cruz was acknowledged with the distinctive prime rising designer award named just after the guest choose, designer Ashley Nell Tipton, the initial furthermore-sized fashion professional who triumphed at the prestigious Venture Runway collection.

Cruz is a 23-12 months-old designer from Victorias City, Negros Occidental, who honed her inventive expertise underneath the Trend Layout and Merchandising Software of the De La Salle-School of Saint Benilde School of Style and Arts. 

The artist to start with turned heads by clinching the Artwork & Natural beauty At the rear of Manner Staff award at the prestigious 14th International Virtual Artwork Renewal Middle (ARC), the greatest realism art levels of competition hosted by the premier auction residence Sotheby’s New York. She was the youngest and the sole Philippine representative at the celebration.

Her intercontinental debut at the 2020 FWSD likewise bagged the Major Designer title for Vivirá, a 10-piece autumn collection that introduced a new dimension to the common baro’t saya, panuelo, and barong.

Cruz likewise introduced Philippine craftsmanship back again at the 15th ARC Salon Exhibition, whereby she translated the oil and aluminum artwork Bound to Hinderance (2020) by American-Iranian oil and figurative painter and art professor Pegah Semaie into a totally-sequined lace applique she meticulously hand-sewn for 72 hours.