National Artist Salvacion Lim Higgins’ designs among highlights of pioneering arts and crafts fair
Fashion is a big deal in this August’s edition of MaArte The brave and timeless vision of the trailblazing Salvacion Lim “Slim” Higgins will be a highlight of this year’s edition of the pioneering Philippine arts and crafts fair MaArte. The designer and newly-minted National Artist for Fashion began her career after World War II, dressed some of the most important women in the movies and society, and helped educate many Filipinos thru her legendary Slim’s Fashion and Arts School. While Slim’s alumni include some of the most respected names in Philippine fashion design, among them Joe Salazar, Cesar Gaupo, Michael Cinco and Joey Samson, the lady herself is a master in making beautiful, fashion-forward clothes. She is known to have reinterpreted the terno by imbuing it with a couture spin, investing it with a draped skirt and a flap that gave the traditional Filipina dress a semblance of movement and therefore modernity. Her son, the artist Mark Lewis Higgins, has put together...