After hitting runway shows in Paris, New York and Germany, fashion artist Joyce Peñas Pilarsky came home for the holidays musing about life and new ways to expand and extend her seemingly bottomless creativity and philanthropy.

As every designer is expected to do at the beginning of each season, she sets out to create some real trendy clothes for the chic ladies around.

In an interview with The Manila Times, Pilarsky noted that she gave a glimpse of her forecast collection during the recent Philippine Fashion Week runway show.

Dominating her collection are a few numbers in ruched and shirred emerald—which experts’ forecast as “color of the year”—further textured with her trademark embellishment of embroidered appliqués, crystals and glittery stones.

Pilarsky also showcased subtle take-offs from “Filipiniana” motifs—voluminous saya sleeves and patadyong wraps, checkered, laser-cut and embroidered ensembles—part of her avant-garde folio.

As a concession to the growing global affectation for anything and everything Chinese, she has created a singularly sensational cheongsam-inspired sexily fitting sheath in bright red and peacock-like colors. In all, Joyce Penas Pilarsky puts her ingenious stamp to the “indigenous”—akin to the “tribal” look that presently characterizes world fashion everywhere—culture style.

Pilarsky said she drew her inspiration from the 1950’s describing fashion as something that needs to be trendy, cutting edge, sexy and close to the skin—epitomizing her book, Young Sexy And Gorgeous.

“Every woman needs to be more daring in their fashion taste, don’t be afraid to flaunt it because you are gorgeous,” Pilarsky encouraged.