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Mak Tumang

Angela

#Mak Tumang #couture #fashion #bridal couture #fashion details #bridal gowns #wedding dresses

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MAK TUMANG ‘Kitty’ Dress 2022 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways  

#mak tumang #fashion #detail #couture #edits #2022 #color: red

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MAK TUMANG COUTURE

#fashion #couture #haute couture #mak tumang #philipines

[aworldofpattern]

Honey Bee dress by Mak Tumang

#world bee day #bee #bees #fashion #mak tumang #embroidery #pattern #surface pattern #surface pattern design #pattern design #textiles #textile design #print #printed textiles #flowers #blossom #floral #wings #insect #insects

[dancing-dadndudn]

Mak Tumang "Gail Solis", "Micci Moroccan Themed Wedding Dress", "Alana"

#mine #mak tumang #gown

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(via Cherry — Designer: Mak Tumang)

#mak tumang

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#mak tumang #designer gown #fashion

[phoenixyfriend]

Here, have some fashion suggestions (brands and designers) if you need ideas or references for an art piece. These skew heavily to my own tastes, but hey. Gotta start somewhere!

Paolo Sebastian's "Once Upon a Dream" collection is a megafave, but all of his stuff is good for the whimsical pastels vibe. Also does bridal.

Egyptian revival: I would definitely look into Cucculelli Shaheen, specifically the Alucinato collection. This seems really specific but ngl I just really want to rec them. Also does bridal.

There are a lot of bridal designers out there, but there are two (well, one bridal, and one bridal-adjacent) that I love for large ballgowns: - Mak Tumang does a lot of structured hemlines and stiff skirts, brightly saturated colors with a very costume ballgown vibe, the sort of thing you'd see in a masquerade scene in a fantasy movie. Good for a red carpet, IMO. (Not primarily bridal) - Kiyoko Hata tends to have more pastels and slightly desaturated jewel tones, with much less of a structure in favor of petticoats to build the shape, more layering of sheer fabrics. Very swishy. (Primarily a bridal designer) - For more 'normal' bridal in a standard palette, I'd look into Kim Kassas, Berta, Galia Lahav, Madeline Gardner, Krikor Jabotian, Rita Vinieris, Sophie Couture, Jimmy Choo, Julie Vino Glam, Vera Wang, Hian Tjen, Essense of Australia, Hayley Paige, Randy Fenoli.

For tea dresses (like a past-the-knee petticoat dress you wear to a garden party where you pretend to be rich) and general semi-formal: - The Matoshi sisters tend to work a lot with mesh and embroidery. Their floral elements tend to be very Secret Garden. They have some vintage inspiration in their bodices sometimes, but overall their boned bodice dresses are just really cool overall. - Chotronette have a similar style, but where the Matoshi tend to have a single heavier layer at the top with designs, Chotronette's are much more light-and-layered, and while they do have some floral, they use more celestial themes. They have a few designs that dip a bit into armor-inspired looks without going full fantasy costume. - IMO the best way to talk about the two in contrast is that the Matoshi sisters feel more solid and vintage-inspired, while Chotronette are more ethereal and fantasy-inspired.

Mark Bumgarner: For big structured skirts that straddle the line between tea dress and gown, but IMO he's a bit hit or miss. Good floral embroidery, though.

Red carpet and evening wear: There are a handful of designers that are just. Insanely good imo, and those are Zuhair Murad, Ziad Nakad, and Elie Saab. All three are really big names, and I wasn't sure until I checked but all are Lebanese, so I guess Lebanon just has a really good fashion industry. I believe most of them (definitely at least Saab and Murad) do bridal as well.

Girl's casual fashion: "All Pretty Girls" boutique

Professional wear: Poem Bangkok do some Ridiculously cool office wear ombre stuff, and the lines on their stuff are SO clean.

Chinese fusion: Heaven Gaia is also one of those brands that does a lot of work with ombre, but they lean into their roots a bit more than Poem. They have some massively cool work with embroidery, mandarin collars, capes, and so on.

Witchy looks: - Linda Friesen has some major vibes with 3D printed elements around the shoulders; good for fantasy costume territory. - Wulgaria Evil: If you want something a bit more high school/college goth.

Royal Black Corsetry for, well, corsets; the head of the company specializes in custom tailoring.

If you're looking to get into fashion for references, I would also follow blogs like @wedding-affair, @fashion-runways, @lacetulle, and @evermore-fashion.

For a more vintage reference set, @sartorialadventure is a good starting point, as is @lookingbackatfashionhistory.

If you're into lolita fashion, I'd rec @lolita-wardrobe

#fashion #Phoenix Posts #references

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—ana maría bolívar y tovar is attending the viani wedding reception in mak tumang

outfit template from here!

#fashion #aesthetic #hshqevent037 #she went to the other days too this is just what i have so far

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You guys! Here is #2... 😘

#mak tumang #sailor moon #gorgeous #wheremyartistsat #challengegiven #Usagisdress?

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Orientalismo Bloom Collection: Mak Tumang Holiday 2019

#Mak Tumang #fashion #gowns #2019 #19 #Filipino fashion

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MAK TUMANG ‘Frances’ Dress 2022 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways  

#mak tumang #fashion #detail #couture #edits #2022 #color: grey

[cutesilyo]

let me tell you a story about political history, the subtle art of throwing shade, and the power of the dress. it’s centered on a filipino fashion designer named mak tumang. 

don’t recognize the name? well, you might recognize his work.

his most famous dress, the one that pushed his name into national acclaim, is the dress catriona gray wore when she was crowned miss universe 2018. inspired by the mayon volcano, the most popular feature in the hometown of catriona’s mother, the dress was an absolutely stunning fit for an absolutely stunning lady. he went on to design even more beautiful dresses, as seen from his instagram:

now that last one, that’s a little unsettling, isn’t it? not as grand as the others, but it’s still a nice dress, certainly. yet the red in the ombre also definitely makes it look like it’s a dress drenched in fresh blood. surely, a great and respected fashion designer like mak tumang would understand how this design would look like. surely, he knew what kind of image that particular shade of red evoked. surely, there was a message that he wanted to say with this.

here’s some context: it was a dress commissioned by imee marcos.

imee marcos is a current senator. she’s also the daughter of the infamous dictator, ferdinand marcos, whose 21 years of presidency are characterized by opulent wealth for his family and the ruling class, extreme economic disparity between the rich and the poor, and the deaths of many activists, students, and innocents at the hands of state police, among many other atrocities. it was a dark time in filipino history, and a relatively recent one; the nationwide protests that pushed him out of power were only in the late 80′s. imee is no better than her father, though she tries her damnedest to hide it now; in 1977, she ordered the torture and execution of a college student just for daring to ask if she was qualified for her political position at the time. 

so, that brings us back to the dress. gold tainted with blood red, an incredibly astute metaphor for a woman whose family wealth is built on the deaths of her countrymen. 

just to add salt on the wound, yellow is a color heavily associated with the aquino family. i won’t get into how the color association came about, so here’s an article that explains it. the important thing to know is: when marcos was finally ousted, cory aquino rose to take the presidency after her husband, a liberal senator who was strongly against marcos, was assassinated.

putting it simply? mak tumang had made imee marcos, daughter of a bloody dictator, wear a dress that not only symbolized her family’s ill-gotten fortune and various human rights violations, but was also in the color of their greatest political adversary, the ones strongly associated with the end of the marcos dictatorship.

and he made her wear this for the presidential state of the nation address, the most televised political event of the year. 

talk about making a fashion statement.

#mak tumang #imee marcos #fashion design #philippines #mine #i saw a mak tumang dress on my dash and i just HAD to tell this story #look i really want to include how the SONA is generally used by many politicians to make a literal fashion statement! #that same year many progressive congressmen had protest art painted on their clothes #because there were fishermen who died when a chinese ship crashed into their boats #when their shouldnt even have been a chinese ship there in the first place! it was philippine territory! #and it was just more fuel to the fire that is SEA vs china territorial disputes #also i kind of wanted to explain how aquinos were related to yellow #kind of drop the fun fact that. yknow. 'tie a yellow ribbon' is considered a protest song here #but i really wanted to focus on tumang here #i mean i KNOW he doesnt. like. explain any of this in his IG post about the dress #his official reasoning for the symbolism is a lot more politically neutral #but lol. come on. that's blood bro. thats a bloodstained dress. own up to it. #haribon

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Cinderella gown by Mak Tumang 🦋

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Mak Tumang

#mine #gown #mak tumang

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(via Heidi — Designer: Mak Tumang)

#mak tumang