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If Stores Specialists, Inc.‘s tandem of Nedy Tentoco and Anton
Huang decide to close shop and retire to the Caribbean or the
Mediterranean or even to their chosen idea of paradise, the
Greenbelt and Glorietta malls would be 75 percent vacant. All the
wonderful and truly high-end boutiques are all their “babies.”
Just name any designer clothes line (male or female) and you can be
sure it’s Nedy and Anton behind them.
Recently at Greenbelt 5 Marc Jacobs, one of
fashion’s coolest and most influential designers was introduced in
the first Marc by Marc Jacobs’ boutique in the country. The store
has available ready-to-wear line and other stylish accessories
including handbags, accent jewelry, shoes that are any woman’s
dream to own.
Anton, Executive Vice President of Stores
Specialists, Inc., together with Luc Moron, Marc Jacobs EVP Asia
Pacific, Victoria Garcia, Marc Jacobs Director for Business
Planning, and Emma Mace, Marc Jacobs Director of Asia, proudly
showed-off the brand-new store and to view the new Marc Jacobs
Spring ’08 collection with a fashion show.
We ran into a plethora of fashionistas and
fashionable socialites like Tessa Prieto-Valdez, Fely Atienza,
Barbara Aboitiz, Jeena Lopez, Katrina Goulbourn, and Teresa Herrera.
A few weeks later, also in Greenbelt 5, the
mother-and-son team hosted the grand debut of the iconic
brand—Banana Republic. It is also its first store in the
Philippines. As you know Banana Republic was the brand that made
safari fashion under chic and classic. With the indefatigable Anton
Huang, Rosemary Young, Banana Republic Marketing Director, Teague
O’Malley, Banana Republic Visual Manager, and Richard Li, regional
Director (Franchise Sales) Asia hosted the evening’s grand launch.
What a fabulous collection! We noted city sophisticated wardrobe of
fluid maxi skirts with oversize blooms, dramatic 3/4 length coats,
and knits in electric hues. Also for more laidback getup, classic
leisure looks of nautical stripes, cropped anoraks, tennis-inspired
Monogram V-necks and varsity sweaters that are translated into clean
modern cuts. For men, staple jeans and slacks in basic hues of
black, khaki, and navy matched with crinkled polo, Henley shirts,
and tailored jackets definitely make the men’s Banana Republic a
fashion must-have for every guy.
We chanced into the very vibrant US Ambassador
to the Philippines Kristie Kenney and the British Ambassador Peter
Beckingham with attractive wife Jill, the Zobel brothers Jaime
Augusto and Fernando with their gorgeous wives Lizzie and Kit; also
there were stylesetters Tweety de Leon-Gonzales, Christine Jacobs-Sandejas,
Ciara Marasigan-Serumgard, Miriam Quiambao, Divine Lee, Paul Soriano
and Rovilson Fernandez in their fave Banana Republic ensembles.
With all these fashionable boutiques opening in
Makati there are no excuses left not to be stylish, chic and
thoroughly made-over. Congratulations to Nedy and Anton! This is a
country where it seems rise in gasoline prices have no effect on
Manila’s finest stylesetters.
Until next week… Stay well and well-dressed!
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