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Martin Bautista’s
ascent to becoming a favorite designer among
showbiz celebrities was extremely quick. After
his stint at Slim’s, his very first collection
landed on Preview magazine’s Top 10 Best
Collections for 2007. He was selected to
participate in the milestone “Slim’s At 50”
showin October 2011 for the school’s 50th
anniversary, representing the batch of students
of the early 2000's.
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Jaz captured the
media’s attention as a finalist in Project
Runway Philippines. Her collection for
Philippine Fashion Week Holiday 2010 was
proclaimed by Preview magazine as one of the
event’s best collections.
She studied Fine Arts at FEU, graduating cum
laude and took up Dressmaking/Patternmaking at
Slim’s.
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Michael Cinco, who studied at Slim’s at the same
time as Joey Samson in the early 1990s, chose to
make his mark internationally as a fashion designer.
He pursued further studies in London and Paris half
way through his career. Based in Dubai, his opulent
and dramatic couture boasts intricate
and innovative embellishment, finished to the highest
level.
He has shown his collections in Miami, New York,
Dubai, and Manila. He was also the first Filipino
designer to be featured on Emmy-award winning “America’s
Next Top Model”, and he recently won Breakthrough
Designer of 2011 at the WGSN Global Fashion Awards
in New York.
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In 2010,
Pio Fausto Martinez Enaje or better known as Phio
to his colleagues and friends, marked his 25th year
in the Fashion Industry. He started his career in
fashion at the young age of 16 as a ready-to-wear
designer for a garment manufacturing company that
supplied for private labels of Rustan’s.
He
then moved on to work for various fashion houses,
before establishing his own couture atelier in Makati.
He has done over 12 major fashion shows, and recently,
moved to Dubai to work with fellow-alumnus Ezra
Santos.
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An icon in Philippine fashion, Cesar studied at
Slim’s in the late 1960s, and had a brief apprenticeship
with Salvacion Lim Higgins, and Aureo Alonzo.
He was co-founder of the FDAP, or Fashion Designers
Association of the Philippines. He gained national
prominence as a pioneer of ready -to-wear with SM,
and international recognition as Chief Designer
of the Hong Kong based brand, Shanghai Tang.
He currently runs his haute couture atelier, which
he has had for 40 years, and launched his bespoke
shoe line in 2006, at Greenbelt 5. A true
artist, he has also started designing for the home.
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Edgardo Ramon
“Gang” Gomez was a popular haute couture
designer who catered to Manila’s fashion elite
during the seventies. He studied at Slim’s and
at Mayer School of Fashion in New York. He also
trained under the NY Fashion Designers
Foundation. He was known for his "classic lines"
hand-embroidery on rich fabrics and his
extensive use of indigenous materials such as
jusi and pina. In 1990, Manila’s fashion world
was jolted when he closed his shop and joined
the Monastery of the Transfiguration in
Malaybalay, Bukidnon.
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Rikki attended designing
lessons in Slim’s in 1967 while enrolled in
UST College of Fine Arts, Major Interior Design.
He established his shop in Manila in 1970, which
he continued to run until 1989. He was also a writer
and columnist to Malaya & Manila Bulleting
for 15 years. Before
this fashion designer and columnist
retired, he established “Rikki J. & Friends Foundation
Inc.” in 2005, which aids the provision and construction
of medical facilities..
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Jay is a fashion designer by profession doing RTW
for both men and women, as well as couture
and bridal/formal wear.
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Pablo graduated from Slim’s in the 1990s, and
spent the first 5 months of his career teaching
at the school. He then moved on to establishing
himself as a successful fashion designer.
Pablo recently earned three major awards:Best Philippine Repres- entative International
Competition for Young Fashion Designer in Paris,
France, in 2002, the Grand Prize Winner
Philippine Fashion Designer Competition in 2007,
and finally, the First Philippine Representative
to Asian Network Show, International Fashion
Fair and Japan Fashion Week in 2009.
His love for teaching never left him…Pablo
returned to Slim’s to teach part time in 2010,
in between his work for his clients.
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Eddie Ocampo was perhaps the first Filipino
designer to achieve great success in Hollywood.
Along with Oskar Peralta, he was one of the
school’s first students and apprenticed with the
designer Slim. At a young age, he also obtained
a degree in architecture. Dubbed a “golden boy”,
he was formally introduced to the public at a
show for Karilagan in 1964. Eddie soon found
himself in the US, working with Jean Louis, a
top designer at the time. Throughout his career,
he has designed for Hollywood stars, as well as
for stars of television series such as ‘Dallas’
and ‘Knotts Landing’.
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Oskar was the
school’s first ever student in 1960, and credits
its founder, Salvacion Lim Higgins (‘Slim’) with
suggesting he spell his name with a ‘k’.
He studied directly under, and later apprenticed
with Slim, prior to working with other
illustrious designers and eventually
estab- ishing his own atelier. He has been an
iconic presence in the fashion industry since
then, and was a member of the prestigious
Fashion Guild as well as a founding member of
the Fashion Designers Association of the
Philippines (FDAP). He was also the first
Filipino ever to have a design featured in Vogue
magazine.
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