The Subanen Princess
During my visit to Zamboanga Sibugay for the
holidays last year, I sought out indigenous fabrics for a possible garment presentation/auction
in an art gallery abroad. In my earliest collections, I incorporated fabrics such
as the T’nalak from Davao and Langdap from Marawi into garments of clean, linear silhouettes.
These fabrics were readily available through sources provided by my aunt Henrietta Ele who is the founding director of Darangan Dance Troop of The Mindanao State University. Her company globe-trotted for fashion presentations with Ben Farrales in the 80’s and today, she owns an extensive collection of indigenous fabrics from the South. She showed me this collection a couple of years ago and it sparked off an idea.
These fabrics were readily available through sources provided by my aunt Henrietta Ele who is the founding director of Darangan Dance Troop of The Mindanao State University. Her company globe-trotted for fashion presentations with Ben Farrales in the 80’s and today, she owns an extensive collection of indigenous fabrics from the South. She showed me this collection a couple of years ago and it sparked off an idea.
