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About
Filipino fashion designer and creative director best known for founding the sustainable label MM Milano along with having solo shows at Milan Fashion Week and repeated showcases at New York Fashion Week.
Before Fame
She traces her love of making clothes to her childhood in the Philippines and she made her first dress at when she was 10 years old. Her big break came in May 2023 when she dressed Drusilla Gucci, the great-granddaughter of Gucci founder Guccio Gucci, for the Cannes Film Festival.
Trivia
Her big Cannes breakthrough happened without a conventional fashion degree as she is a self-taught fashion designer without a formal fashion degree. Her label MM Milano is listed on the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals Partnerships registry. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair, and Marie Claire.
Family Life
She spent long hours helping her mother in a small tailoring shop when she was growing up.
Associated With
She and Pia Wurtzbach are both Filipinas heavily involved in the fashion scene at the Cannes Film Festival and New York Fashion Week.