Baguio and Beyond: Fresh Fashion Framed by Cordillera Cool
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Baguio and Beyond: Fresh Fashion Framed by Cordillera Cool

Meet us at the Cordilleras, where craft, community, and indigenous wisdom reverberate through the land.

From a viewpoint at Mirador Heritage and Eco Park in Baguio, the sun rises over crests of colored rooftops, half-shaded by the line of the mountains. Listen closely, and you’ll hear the low hum of a city bustling with life, textured by the whir of the wind. Baguio glows from this perspective.

Color follows you through its streets. In the creative capital, craft is alive in vibrant city markets, electric tapestries from Narda’s, and flower farms that extend to the horizon. Color is present even when you don’t see it; beneath the pavement on Session Road, there are remnants of colored stone and ceramic, harking to the city’s mosaic-making history that lives on in an artist village just off the path. “Culture defines the character of the city,” Venus Tan, co-chairman of the Creative Baguio City Council, told Vogue Philippines in December. “The expressions come out because of our cultural heritage.” 

Kinetic, local weaves and festive plaids visualize a dynamic energy that first reaches you through the senses: the soft rustle of pine tree leaves that loom overhead, the rush of crowds pouring into painted city jeeps, a confronting stillness between a shifting urban landscape and these roads that never change. Models Lake Cabrias, who the team scouted from its Manila casting call, and Fofai, who hails from the Kalinga region, hold handwoven lampshades on their hips and wear Filipino designers’ works inspired by the crafts that come out of our islands. Here, they prance between vast patches of green land and clear, blue skies, imbibing a vibrancy that is felt.

These vignettes aim to capture the spirit of a city and its dwellers immersed in art and life. Baguio glows from this perspective.

Photographs by BORGY ANGELES. Fashion Director PAM QUIÑONES. Fashion Editor DAVID MILAN. Makeup: Booya. Hair: Mong Amado. Models: Lake Cabrias, Fofai of Mercator. Producer: Anz Hizon. Associate Producer: Julian Rodriguez. Nails: Extraordinail. Photographer’s Assistant: Rojan Maguyon. Stylist’s Assistant: Neil Anthonie de Guzman. Video: Lorenzo Corro. Retouching: Grace Sioson. Digital introduction by Chelsea Sarabia, with additional reporting by Patricia Villoria. Special thanks to: Agetyeng Travel and Tours, Creative Baguio City Council, Ester Castro Kimayong, Local Government Unit of Baguio City, Marshall Cruz of Baguio Old Market, Mirador Heritage and Eco Park, Sacya-an Stone Homestay-Maligcong, The Country Place Baguio.

Vogue Philippines: February 2025

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