Artist duo Cenon at Mav reacts to the pandemic of biblical proportions that has brought the world to its knees.

Filipino fashion is bringing on the bayanihan spirit. In the past weeks, designers and their teams have volunteered their production lines to address the shortage of personal protective equipment for health workers fighting COVID-19, beginning with reusable fabric face masks and now extending to hazmat suits.

For those of us doing our part in containing the pandemic by staying home, cabin fever is real on this 19th day of enhanced community quarantine.

It is funny to me that not one astrologer or doomsayer predicted that the challenge the new decade brings would come in the air that we breathe. But fashion did.

To celebrate International Women’s Month, Rustan’s recently staged an inspirational conversation called “Her Voice Matters: Be Heard! Be You!” part of its four-day “#GRLPWR: Be The Change You Want To See” event in Shangri-La Plaza Mall for members of the department store’s beauty rewards program, Rustan’s Beauty Addict.