SINULID 2024: Philippine Fashion Like No Other
Since 2016, SINULID has become an annual event anticipated by the local and international fashion industry. It serves as the launching pad for emerging talents among graduating students of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde’s Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design and Merchandising.
Featuring diversified collections from 62 young designers, a 3-day event will be held at The Podium Ortigas on January 26-28, 2024. RTW, couture, menswear, childrenswear, maternity wear, and many more will be exhibited at the Atrium, The Podium, and will be available for viewing by the public. An exclusive fashion runway will also be held at The Podium Hall.
This year’s theme, “BEYOND BOUNDARIES,” will let the audience explore the concept of an extraordinary multiverse of fashion that transcends the confines of the ordinary world, breaking stereotypes and walls of expectation of what it means to become a designer. This year’s SINULID 2024 is another notable milestone of the School of Environment and Design in staging this second public showcase after the pandemic. SINULID 2023: RENASCENCE was the year the students could return to physically exhibiting their works since the pandemic.
Benilde Fashion Design and Merchandising (FDM) Program is designed to prepare and equip students with fundamental research and design skills, technical skills, and sustainable business skills essential to transforming an aspiring creative into a competent professional in the field of fashion. Creative. Collaborative. Responsive to market demands. These are what the global fashion industry demands of its “design-thinkers.” It offers a nurturing environment where young minds are enriched through in-campus and off-campus learning experiences. Its forward-thinking curriculum marries the traditional with the state-of-the-art, allowing fashion students to explore and experiment with design and merchandising ideas.
Career prospects beyond life in Benilde include accessory designer, costume designer, fashion buyer, fashion consultant, fashion designer, fashion illustrator, stylist, fashion merchandiser, fabric surface designer, and visual merchandiser, among many others.
Each designer will have different perceptions towards the unknown future, and at the same time, demonstrating the uniqueness of every designer can become a powerful harmonic one. Benilde Fashion Design and Merchandising (FDM) Program is at the forefront of innovation, where students learn the working realities of the fashion industry. This new generation of designers knows business practices with sustainability in mind, fashion merchandising, marketing, and entrepreneurship, and uses design to provide practical solutions to social, environmental, and economic needs.
In line with this direction, key faculty members of the FDM Program and the rest of the School of Environment and Design created Benilde’s new Bachelor in Textile Design, the country’s first standalone textile program in the Philippines. This pioneering program is pivotal in reviving the Philippine textile industry, preserving Filipino culture, and reinforcing the sense of national identity.
In a GMA Lifestyle article published last January 1, fashion designer, industry expert, and Benilde educator Roxoanne Bagano-Dizon discussed the 2024 fashion trends. “It is a greater celebration of unique personal style and a move away from mass-produced, homogenous trends,” she started. “Ethical practices are more deeply entrenched in the industry with an increased focus on eco-friendly materials, recycling, and reducing waste,” she added.
Benilde Bachelor in Textile Design Program is the premier textile design education program in the Philippines, producing graduates who will represent and advance the Philippine textile industry. BTD is designed to prepare and equip students with advanced textile knowledge, design and technical skills, and sustainable business skills essential to becoming competent professionals in textiles and related industries. A new, radical paradigm that considers the ecological, cultural, social, and economic impacts in a way that will not compromise the needs of future generations
The new generation of souls joining the fashion industry has an additional point they must make. Creativity, innovation, and profit must equally be met with sustainability and circularity. The latter two are not mere buzzwords anymore but a more ethical approach as they discover what kind of professionals and individuals they want to become.
Far from Sinulid’s past themes, this year’s event is all about organic visions and raw talents, demonstrating how perfectly distinct yet in sync these students are as young designers, powering through creativity and allowing them to project their different realities in harmony. Looking at each designer’s work up close in The Podium Ortigas from January 26-28, 2024, is like entering a world where creativity has no boundaries and reality is shaped by the imagination; it is also a wondrous peek at the future of fashion. Follow SINULID 2024: Beyond Boundaries on social media for more information.
