Cover (From left) R’Bonney Nola Gabriel, Anthony Ramirez and Antonina Abad Amoncio are among the designers who will be showcasing their designs at Bench Fashion Week Holiday 2024 (Photo: Instagram / @benchtm)
(From left) R’Bonney Nola Gabriel, Anthony Ramirez and Antonina Abad Amoncio are among the designers who will be showcasing their designs at Bench Fashion Week Holiday 2024 (Photo: Instagram / @benchtm)
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R'Bonney Nola Gabriel, Antonina Abad Amoncio, Bon Hansen, Anthony Ramirez and Jenni Contreras will be presenting their works at Bench Fashion Week Holiday 2024
The Filipino fashion scene is gearing up for Bench Fashion Week again. For the first time, designers R’Bonney Nola Gabriel, Antonina Abad Amoncio, Jenni Contreras, Anthony Ramirez, and Bon Hansen are set to showcase their works on the Bench runway. From classic, contemporary menswear to a collaboration inspired by the ongoing emergence of artificial intelligence, Holiday 2024 is shaping up to be an exciting watch.
Bench Fashion Week Holiday 2024 will take place from August 30 to September 1. These new faces will share the runway with veteran designers Rhett Eala and Chito Vijandre. Global brands Cotton On, Bon Hansen, Urban Revivo and Bench Body are also due to showcase their latest collections.
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Antonina Abad Amoncio
With a simple, predominantly black-and-white palette that hides deeper meanings, Amoncio’s work is derived from cultural themes and personal history. As the child of parents in the bridal industry, Amoncio’s collection is poignantly inspired by a “wedding she’ll never have.” She experiments with hand-sewing techniques and texture, creating a distinctive style that marries precision and flair. Before her debut on the Bench Fashion Week runway, she won the Bench Design Awards in 2019. Her works have also been showcased in Japan.
Jenni Contreras
As a child, Contreras began honing her sartorial eye by experimenting with different styles and implementing her touch to existing designs. She won the first Bench Design Awards in 2017 and debuted her collection in Tokyo. Holiday 2024 marks her second appearance on the Bench Fashion Week runway and her second collaboration with local streetwear brand Human. This capsule collection, called “Chapter 2 - Universe H,” is inspired by technological dystopia and takes notes from the emergence of AI-generated content.
See also: Bench Fashion Week Holiday 2023: Meet the designers
R’Bonney Nola Gabriel
As Miss Universe 2022, Gabriel has made herself known in the fashion world. Now, she ventures even further as she presents her collection, “How to Survive on Land and Sea,” on the Bench Fashion Week runway, inspired by her dual Filipino and American background. An advocate of sustainable fashion, she uses recycled clothing and fabrics to achieve a vision inspired by her hometown of Houston, Texas and the beaches of the Philippines.
Bon Hansen
Hansen’s twist on contemporary menswear offers an accessible way to blend the unconventional with the everyday wardrobe. A winner of the Bench Design Awards in 2019, he has showcased at Rakuten Fashion Week in Tokyo. His recent collection, called “Pagkatao,” celebrates the power of community with designs that juxtapose fluid fabric with precise tailoring. He was also a finalist at the TernoCon design competitions in 2023.
Anthony Ramirez
Known for an inclination towards daring silhouettes and a hyper-feminine aesthetic, Ramirez’s “Bōryokudan” takes a darker turn. The collection employs notes from Nineties Japanese gangster culture and balances this with elevated menswear pieces, using refined materials like French cashmere. Ramirez pays homage to a childhood interest in Japanese pop culture that seeps into his design perspective today.
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