After an intensive screening last June at Salcedo Auctions in Makati, Fashion Aid Philippines has chosen the 20 finalists for The Grant 2025. The winner will be named in the awarding ceremony on Oct. 2, 2025 at the Centro Turismo de Intramuros in Intramuros, Manila.
Grant 2025 finalists
The Grant 2025 selection shows not only the creativity of the young Filipino design talent, but most important its resilience and social awareness. The lack of fashion industry infrastructure, supplies and resources apparently doesn’t faze them.
Instead these rising talents resort to recycling, upcycling and fabrication. Instead of moaning the lack of fabrics and supplies, they use anything they can get their hands on, to produce clothes, bags, accessories, anything, from plastic bottles to other discards.
Their rallying cry: sustainability.
Also, it is noticeable how they’re well-versed in telling a story about of their collection, even if they’re more into polished narrative than design aesthetic. Every entry had a defined story behind it even as the designer continued to explore his design.
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Drawn from a national call that received hundreds of applications, The Grant by Fashion Aid Philippines revealed a new generation of Filipino creative force across fashion, accessories, and object (lifestyle) design. Such rising talents from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao yielded designs that impressed the esteemed panel of judges. One judge even suggested to the candidates to add gender-fluid or gender-less design, to their themes of sustainability and upcycling, because today’s fashion is not gender-centric, it’s more unisex than ever.
The 20 finalists with the highest scores during the evaluation are Rio Sandra Barrios, Kristina Leanne Basilio, Jorem Biadoma, Monica Castillo, Angela Chavez, Joshua Chiong, Elijah Contillo, Caesy Coronel, Matthew David, Ivan Cedric Fabia, Kiko Kintanar, Ayra Longsiab, John Jade Montecalvo, Marigrace Reano, Hazel Roldan, King Rosales, Gil Salazar, Michelle Tiu, Deya Tsyna, Lee Villanueva.
The selected 20 finalists will develop their designs with the assistance of Fashion Aid Philippines members and some of the country’s leading experts in design and creative fields. This next stage of the competition will allow the finalists to refine their existing products or create stronger pieces worthy for an exhibition this October.
The Grant by Fashion Aid Philippines continues to build a platform where Filipino creativity is celebrated and nurtured for a globally competitive design industry.
First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos as guest of honor in Grant 2025 finalist selection
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