WEAR MY DESIGN

How would you to like see a dress you designed being featured in ENSEMBLES stores nationwide, with your name credited as its designer, and to be worn by Carmina Villarroel in her next photoshoot? 

Local feminine brand ENSEMBLES is having its first ever Design Competition open to all designers and aspiring ones. ENSEMBLES is giving you the chance to break into the world of fashion through its WEAR MY DESIGN Contest where winning pieces will be produced for the Spring/Summer 2013 Collection.

Wear My Design Competition is looking for original yet smartly flattering creations! No experience necessary, just a love for Ensembles’ style. Just submit a dress prototype creation together with the Application Form. Can’t sew, but full of ideas, you can even have someone else sew it for you. All approved submissions will be uploaded to Ensembles Facebook Page for voting which is 10% of the criteria. There is no limit on the amount of designs submitted. Five (5) early birds approved submissions will be rewarded with Php 2,000 worth of Shopping Spree from ENSEMBLES!

The winning designers will not only receive the satisfaction of seeing their garments produced by ENSEMBLES and worn by others, but they will also receive cash prizes, gift certificates, generous gifts from our partners including a full make-over by Piandre Salon, great coffee from Bo’s Coffee and a huge gift pack from VMV Hypoallergenics. 

In addition, ENSEMBLES will feature a write up about the winning designers and their designs that will be featured on our website, in broadsheets as well as various social media outlets. 

In the meantime, here's the current S/S 2012 ad campaign of ENSEMBLES featuring actress/TV host Carmina Villaroel:

Learn more about ‘Wear My Design’ Competition Mechanics and complete set of rules in Ensembles website www.ensembles.com.ph.  Application Form can be downloaded from Ensembles Facebook page (facebook.com/EnsemblesOnline).  Follow Ensembles on Twitter (twitter.com/EnsemblesOnline) and Pinterest (pinterest.com/EnsemblesPH).

SOLO RENDITION

So here we are again… May 2010 means Pinoy election fever (the automated version). As politicians bolster their crazy asses to impress voters in the final stages of their campaigns, we seem to be bombarded with nationalistic themes left and right, evoking Pinoy patriotism and sparking hope that will result to much-needed change.


Demonstrating that same blazing Filipino spirit, SOLO (the cult brand from the same company that brought Freeway and Ensembles) prides itself with the launch of “Old Manila” T-shirt series last year. Graphic-printed shirts depicting Manila during the colonial era take us back to memory lane with Filipino heroes, artisans, governadors, guardias civil, architectures, etc. – all but affluent display of Filipino history and culture during the Spanish times.


Wearing the Old Manila Collection is a cool way to remind all of us of our rich heritage, and the collages of graphics are the spruced-up, modern way for youngsters to embrace the past. Such nationalistic statement led to SOLO’s groundbreaking online collaborative poster-making contest with a search for SOLO’s new faces, with winners announced just recently.


SOLO’s Discover You! Show Yourself! promo required a collaborative team composing of amateurs – a model and a graphic artist or stylist – to come up with their photographic, vintage and patriotic rendition of the brand while wearing an Old Manila shirt. From more than a hundred of entries, two posters emerged as grand winners.


For the Male Poster Category, the winner is “I Can See You” (Model: Jaggy Tallada and Artist: Simon Agregado). On the other hand, the Female Poster Winner is “Reflections” (Model: Jhoanna Flor and Artist: Alexis Fusilero).

“I Can See You” (Model: Jaggy Tallada and Artist: Simon Agregado) bagged the Best Male Poster Category

“Reflections” (Model: Jhoanna Flor and Artist: Alexis Fusilero) won the Best Female Poster Category

 

Winners were chosen based on combined scores from online voting and Solo’s criteria. Models of the winning posters are the now the new faces of Solo, and the winning posters will be featured on walls of all Solo stores nationwide! All winners received cash prizes, gift certificates from Solo, Casio G-Shock from Time Depot and a feature spread in The Philippine Star Supreme Section.

Here are some pictures of the winning models as published in The Philippine Star:

To know more of the contest, visit the contest site at: www.solo.com.ph/postermaking.