Estien Quijano
started professional career as a designer in April 1991. He is a licensed
nurse, who graduated from University of Santo Thomas, whose love for the arts
pushed him to become the designer he is today. Even as a child, Estien’s love
for arts was present. He would browse at Encyclopedias and just look at the
different pictures and paintings. Using his God given talents and his own hands
he is fond of creating new things.
Estien had been a Finalist in Mega Magazine’s Young
Designers’ Competition in 2006 and a Finalist in FDCP Design Competition –
Accessories Category in the same year.
Estien Quijano has also been consistently landing on the top 10 collections
for three seasons of the Philippine
Fashion Week. Estien Quijano joined the retail industry through Vatican Fashion Museum at The Podium.
He is a postmodern
artist-designer whose artistic flair is seen in every garment he creates,
blending innovation and tradition. He considers his works as wearable pieces of
art and have been photographed and worn in Paris, New York, Singapore and other
parts of the world. Estien finds his inspirations in a lot of things such as
music, architecture, and nature. Most of his materials of choice are
unexpected, such as the Sebiña, a hand woven fabric made of bamboo yarn, Piña
fiber and Philippine silk cocoon. However, he also utilizes conventional
materials, his favorite being the garter. In fact, he is known in the fashion
industry as the “Garter Guy.”
Estien Quijano on his latest collection:
“I was thinking of
North Seychelles, the luxury of idle time, basking in the sun, sand and sea, savouring
the relaxed, cool air of island life. This collection is avant-garde meets
luxewear: luxuriously draped fabric and 100% hand stitched bikini wraps for the
femme fatale—giving my discriminating
clientele low carbon-imprint clothes, carefully handcrafted by myself. For the
active male, androgynous clothes for the beach and resort, light and
loose-fitting apparel, matched with taxi coloured swimwear with contrast stitch
detailing.”
His message to aspiring designers out there:
“Put your heart in
everything that you do, and it will bring out the best in you.”
THE CURATOR, April Issue is coming your way, Watch out!
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| Featuring Estien Quijano's Avant-Garde Underwater plus Vatican Fashion Museum Designers' Spring/Summer Collections By Arnold Galang Envoy Eric Delos Santos EsAC Jerome Salaya-Ang Lizanne Cua Ulysses King Yako Reyes |
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