MANILA, Philippines — It's not only actress-style maven Heart Evangelista who is representing the Philippines in Paris.
Cebu-based model Lukresia made the queer community and Filipinos proud when she walked the runway for French fashion house Mugler at the recently concluded Paris Fashion Week.
Lukresia donned a tight-fitting leather pants and tasseled silver top with her long-black hair looking sleek in a ponytail. She strutted the runaway and shimmied at one point, with the silver tassels creating waves as she walked toward the audience.
The Cebu-based model walked for the returning French fashion house's Fall/Winter 2022-2023 collection. It is the first time since pre-pandemic that Mugler has shown at the fashion week, with its creative director Casey Cadwallader.
Lukresia has created a name for herself in the fashion scene. Otherwise known as thirdworldbb, the model said in an interview that she goes by the moniker to reclaim the word "bayot," which is a Bisaya word for gay, but has been used a pejorative or slur toward her kind.
The other B stands for "boang," which is crazy in Bisaya. Lukresia said she chose this word because she describes herself as one.
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