Marbbie Tagabucba

Loving local is a lifestyle. When you love your country, you walk the talk—and wear it, too.

Aside from being a leading expert in hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB), Dr. Catherine Teh of the Makati Medical Center is also the first Asian woman to be inducted into the prestigious Society of Surgeons Les Compagnons Hepato-Biliaires. With this said, she hopes to inspire and educate future specialists in this field both locally and abroad. By MARBBIE […]

At The Beauty Edit Gallery at Spatio, Filipino beauty gets the recognition it deserves.

Maximalist looks have their place—but for versatility and timelessness, French beauty endures. Its appeal is in its practicality: skin-first, edited, and built to function in real life.

From late November to January, the Filipino holiday season is a marathon of work deadlines, family gatherings, festive parties, and much-needed escapes.

While “performative” may have finished only as a runner-up for Word of the Year in 2025, 2026 marks a deliberate attempt to leave it behind.

There is privilege in choice—in being able to define who you are, rather than simply accept who you are told to be. For women, that privilege is hard-won and still uneven. That is what celebrating Women's Month each year is all about. And where this privilege exists, it carries responsibility: to shape an identity is not only to claim space for yourself, but to widen it for others.

In recent years, Massimo Dutti has become synonymous with the “old money” aesthetic, with its polished tailoring and structured silhouettes.

Every collection this season has somewhere to be. At Bench Fashion Week SS2026, Peter Gagula's “Paddy'strian” takes us to his childhood in Capiz—of rice paddies, the walk to school and back.

The crown was the first link. Now, Kylie Verzosa is forging the rest herself.