FEATURE WRITING: LOVE

Manila Bulletin
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Love
Top Philippine wedding gown designers create the ultimate wedding gown for newly engaged actress Heart Evangelista.
August 31, 2014

It’s a magical moment when the bride walks down the aisle in her wedding dress. And if the country’s top fashion designers were to sprinkle pixie dust on Heart Evangelista’s special day, they’d make her their muse, garbed in elaborate lace, exquisite tulle, and breathtaking embellishments. Watch these designers wave their magic wands, creating stunning sketches for a special day of love.

My design for Heart would be a fully embellished top, sweetheart sheer top neckline, and layers of soft tulle.
—Eric Delos Santos

The wedding dress of Heart Evangelista should be elegant and best-remembered, and, since she is marrying a political figure, should also be a major influence on women, elevating matrimonial fashion, not to mention her celebrity status as well. I imagine her wearing a high-necked, long-sleeved gown with a fitted torso and a billowing skirt. The materials include French lace, illusion tulle, lace-and-seed-pearl encrusted skirt. Her wedding ensemble is simple and exquisitely detailed. —Avel Bacudio

It is a white tulle serpentine gown with intricate baroque, callado, and linear embroidery with white sequined lining beneath the embroidered overlay. —Randy Ortiz

If I were to create a wedding gown for Heart Evangelista’s very special day, I will make a fully embroidered serpentina gown in white soft tulle fabric. Heart is known for her beauty, sexiness, and allure. The serpentina cut of the gown, which will have a deep back cut, will highlight her voluptuous figure. The gown will be intricately embroidered, which will also emphasize her enviable curves. The intricacy continues smoothly to the back of the gown down to the skirt with a perfect depth, which will give the classic look a hint of sexiness. —Francis Libiran

I imagine a gown that’s beautiful, romantic, elegant, modern and not too fussy—one that enhances Heart’s natural beauty and doesn’t try to take attention away from it. Thus, this French lace and silk Duchesse satin bridal gown with crystal beadwork. —Tippi Ocampo

Heart has a beautiful body: a full bosom and is small boned. So, I gave her this fitted bodice and semi-mermaid cut. Done in laser cut lace, individuallay appliqued for that 3D effect. Her neck and arms are covered with a detachable yoke fashioned from stretch tulle. The hemline is yards and yards of illusion tulle to complete her dreamy look.” —Michi Calica Sotto