Fashion Design

What is Fashion Design?

Fashion Design is…

the art of applying design,

aesthetics and natural beauty to
clothing and its accessories
Fashion Design
It is influenced by The first fashion designer who was more than a simple seamster was Charles
cultural and social Frederick Worth, in the 19th century. Before he set up his fashion design
attitudes, and has varied house in Paris, clothing was made by anonymous dressmakers and fashion
over time and place. standards were derived from the styles worn by royalty.

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World-Famous Filipino Fashion Designers

Rajo Laurel Michael Cinco Jose “Pitoy” Moreno

One of the Top Fashion Dubai-based Filipino Pillar of Philippine
Designers in the designer best known for Fashion
Philippines his magnificent couture
gowns

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Rajo Laurel
One of the top Filipino fashion Rajo is passionate about his work, progressive, and very much a keen
designers, Rajo Laurel's love for fashion businessman. He heads Rajo Laurel Enterprise, a young design-driven
is rooted in his early years, but it was company fueled with the ideology of elegance, romance, and luxury. The
in his young adulthood when his talent
became truly apparent. His innate eye
look is always modern and feminine, juxtaposing hard and soft elements.
for fashion was enhanced through his Though Filipino in origin and heavily influenced by his Asian roots, Rajo
training from New York Fashion aims to maintain a Global Perspective in fashion.
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Saint Martin's in London.
Michael Cinco
Cinco was born on August 27,
1971 in the island of Samar in
central Philippines.
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Cinco studied Fine Arts at the prestigious University of the Philippines
Diliman for two years eventually transferring at Slims Fashion and Arts
School in Manila. He then took up supplementary courses at Central Saint
Martins in London.
Jose “Pitoy” Moreno
was a Filipino fashion designer and one of the earliest
advocates of the Maria Clara gown. He established the
spotlight on Filipino fashion in the world artistic fashion
scene during the 1960s until his retirement, paving the
way for young Filipino fashion designers in Europe, the
Middle East, the Americas, and other parts of Southeast
Asia.
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Moreno became the president of the Philippine Couture Association, the
very first association of fashion designers in Manila, Philippines. He was the
fashion designer for the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company. His fashion
designs were exhibited at the World’s Fair in Seattle, Washington and New
York City. His fashion designs appeared on the pages of fashion magazines
such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Holiday, and Le Figaro, where Moreno
introduced the words jusi, piña and lepanto to world fashion, the first time
Filipino fashion terminologies were incorporated in world fashion artistry.
Works of the World-Famous Filipino Fashion Designers

Jose “Pitoy” Moreno

Michael Cinco
Rajo Laurel

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Thank you!