SoFA Design Institute presented Compelling Visions: The Next Generation as it featured 22 budding designers as they unveiled their fashion narratives for their Grad Show 2017 at Manila Fashion Festival The Next. 

Check out some of the best looks from the show.

Runway photography credits to Ryan Ong of Preview.Ph

Watch the curtain call here and the designers’ walk here.

CORINA TEODORO

“Sophia Syn Omorfia”

Physical beauty and inner strength. Sartorial re-interpretations of Athena and Aphrodite.

RHEA BISCOCHO

“Dùgo”

Vulnerability and emotion: Revealed by the three great goddesses.

ANA DE LEON

“Dance of Cranes”

An enchanting movement of nature: Intricate and graceful.

VIVIENNE MARTIN

“Assailant”

Forged by the fire in the heart-made clear by the waters of life.

JEMA GAMER

“Catharsis”

Witness divine intervention in the midst of an inner struggle.

PIA ALVIOLA

“Salamangka”

Reshaped and retold: The mysteries of a misunderstood craft.

ANISSA GOMEZ

“Lethal”

A green revolution built on vulnerability–A sustainable epidemic that changes the human body.

SoFA Grad Show 2017 happened last March 23, 2017 during Manila Fashion Festival The NEXT at The Marquee Tent, EDSA Shangri-la Manila Hotel, Mandaluyong City, Philippines.

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