Hey, fellow young fashionistas! Do you want to know how to look good and do good at the same time? A bunch of college students like me showed how as they topbilled the Green Fashion Revolution led by the Aboitiz Foundation, where they vied for recognition as the best designers of clothes, accessories, bags, and shoes made from recycled materials—from some 200 kilograms of waste materials from Aboitiz companies, to be exact. This new fashion style is called “ecouture,” or eco-friendly fashion design, inspired by the global movement to protect our environment in order to slow down climate change. The competition was held for the first time in Metro Manila after a successful four-year run among young people in Cebu. At the SMX Convention Center Aura, I watched as college students from the University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman, Asia Pacific College, and De La Salle College of Saint Benilde paraded their fabulous “ecouture,” which [...]
