11 Fashion Brands To Shop From To Support The Local Weaving Community
Snag some fashionable weaved pieces from these local brands in this year’s Likhang HABI Market Fair!
From the aisles of Glorietta Activity Center, this year’s Likhang HABI Market Fair goes online for the first time on October 21 to 27. With the event’s advocacy to preserve and promote the local textile industry, it continues to provide a platform for local weavers to showcase their handmade native fabrics and original designs despite the ongoing pandemic.
And it’s the perfect time to stage a virtual fair for more local products—now, more than ever, the popularity of online shopping made it easier for people to support more local products and add these pieces to our wardrobe staples.
With merchants from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao joining Likhang HABI 2020, you’ll find sustainable and ethical fashion and lifestyle products available from various weaving communities from all over the country. “There are many beautiful fabrics from the different areas in our country, “says HABI chairperson Maribel Ongpin. “One of our main goals at HABI is to make sure that our traditional textiles will still be a part of our modern lifestyle as we transition to the new normal.”
For style mavens going for that shift, the digital event is your gateway to getting acquainted with ethical and locally-made clothes, shoes, and accessories. In the gallery below, find 11 fashion brands you’ll find in Likhang HABI that will introduce you to the wonderful world of weaved products. Check them out!
11 fashion brands you’ll find in Likhang HABI
11 fashion brands you’ll find in Likhang HABI
Abek Home and Culture
This brand is focused on the use of Philippine handwoven fabrics, naturally dyes, hand-stitching, and other textile designs. They travel all over the Philippines to seek out unique patterns and preferably old, traditional designs on handwoven fabric, as well as modern designs made by the artisan community.
Camisa Amana
If you’re looking for a Filipiniana Casual piece, check out Camisa Amana’s line of tops for both men and women. Boasting of traditional designs with a modern twist, the brand promotes Filipino heritage in clothing, combining comfort and culture in each item they produce.
Lokal H+A+F
Lokal H+A+F transforms everyday experiences into ultramodern hand-painted artwear and funct-art with local traditional weaves. Find well-crafted shoes from Marikina, banig works of art from Leyte and Bukidnon, architecture-inspired and ceramic accessories, and more pieces to grab your attention—and make a statement on your everyday OOTDs!
Coco & Tres
Everything in Coco & Tres is carefully crafted by hand using only high quality materials that are mostly indigenous to the Philippine Islands. Must-haves from their line of bags are the clear pouches and easy lightweight reversible totes, which are durable and timeless pieces you can use anywhere you go.
Ma. Angelica Rare Finds
Fine jewelry is hard to come by, but Ma. Angelica Rare Finds brings you a great selection of precious gems to add to your collection. Carrying the legacy of Filipino heirloom jewelry well into the future, the brand works with authentic pre-colonial to turn-of-the-century pieces to revive old ways in bringing new meaning to modern designs in Filipiniana heirloom.
Mana PH
This social enterprise protects and promotes our national cultural heritage through advocating for the empowerment of local goods, services, and industries. Thus, producing a collection of jewelry and watches that showcase our own artistry and culture—all sparkly, grand, and proudly ours.
Monica Madrigal
Boasting of ready-to-wear pieces for women with silhouettes that are simple, modern, and easy to wear. With minimalist yet standout details which transform something nondescript into something memorable, each style is designed with comfort and versatility in mind and can be mixed and matched and worn from day to night.
Narda's
This ethno fashion brand uses elements from traditional cultures. The handwoven pieces are created from locally-sourced natural fibers and dyes, and are made by mothers from their partner community in Benguet province.
PNay
This two-year old brand is proud to offer everyday contemporary wear made from hand-woven indigenous fabrics. The array of colorful and stylish pieces, from bags to tops, hats and even face masks, PNay showcases these print that can be incorporated to everyone’s daily fashion ensemble.
Style Isle
This brand parades their collection of found pieces, created and curated pieces made from indigenous materials found around the Philippines, as well as pieces made from various communities in the country. Style Isle’s items are all artisan-made and perfect for the island-inspired lifestyle.
Tagolwanen Women Weavers Association
With Bukidnon-Tagoloanen tribe’s mat weaving tradition called Ikam, one of the precious indigenous traditions in the country that almost vanished, in their home & lifestyle products, one must not miss out on their magnificently-crafted wide-brimmed hats and face masks to flaunt on your trips outside!
Apart from a great shopping selection, Likhang HABI Market Fair will also stage a series of webinars and a four-day online summit in line with HABI’s mission to promote Filipino culture and heritage. Join the online trade fair at www.shophabifair.com.
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