BIOGRAPHY

ALODIA CECILIA, a fashion and jewelry/accessory designer.

ALODIA first took up dressmaking in 2002 at the Ricky Reyes Learning Institute. In 2004, she went to the Golden Hands Fashion and Art School for Fashion Illustration. Highly inclined in the Arts, she also took-up Basic Oil Painting at the DLSU-College of St. Benilde in the same year. ALODIA CECILIA went to Fashion Institute of the Philippines and completed the Basic and Advance Pattern Making and Haute Couture Courses in 2006. In 2007, she took-up Jewelry Making and Jewelry Appraisal at Meycauayan Jewelry Making Training Center , in Bulacan.


ALODIA CECILIA has always aspired to be a well known artist and poet, and has dreamt to spend her artful years in a humble town in Batanes. Persistently persuaded by her family to take-up a design related course, she initially considered Industrial Design, surprisingly enough, she landed in the world of Fashion.


While studying Pattern Making at the Fashion Institute of the Philippines in 2005, ALODIA CECILIA enthusiastically joined the Philippine Fashion Design Competition-Accessory Division. Having no experience at all in accessory making, she bravely managed to experiment on her design entry, entitled "Anaconda," which gained her the IXUS Style Award. She joined the Philippine Fashion Design Competition in 2007 once more and made it again as a finalist. ALODIA CECILIA worked with snakeskin, fang, fresh water pearls, silver, brass, swarovski crystals and precious stones, just as her first entry in 2005, but also added leather and fur. Making use of these indigenous materials, and inspired by talismans and amulets, the ALODIA CECILIA "Uh'neemal" Couture Accessory Collection, emulates a vintage feel and ethnic sovereignty.


In 2008, ALODIA CECILIA went back to fashion and joined Philippine Fashion Week, having her “URBAN ROYALTY” Collection Spring/Summer 2008 as her first ever fashion show after her graduation show in 2006 at the Fashion Institute of the Philippines . This was followed by her Spring/Summer Collection for 2009, entitled, “WHYDAH”, and has been continuously showcasing ever since. In which have become a great success in gaining ALODIA more clients and a name in the fashion industry.


Alodia Cecilia also began working as a part-time instructor of Fashion Accessories Course at the Fashion Institute of the Philippines last February 2010. And also is a consignee at Graxie-Archeology, at Rockwell Powerplant Mall, and at the Blackbook, located at #7274 Malugay st., San Antonio , Makati City .

Accepts made-to-order wedding gowns and bridal entourage since December 2009

Openly considers collaborating with local retail brands.

Future plans include, venturing into bag and shoe designing, as well as launching her jewelry and art exhibit.

Design Style Description:

A maximalist's mind merging into a minimalist's vision. Incorporating various elements directed on certain patterns, influenced by Eastern and Western medieval ethnicity in smooth intricate detailing, mostly hand-crafted couture pieces, with favourable contemporary attributes of functional and practical clothing. A style that embodies elegant artful classics

Moves by the mood.
* Mainly creates one-of-a-kind Women's Apparel and Couture Snakeskin/Fur Accessories/jewelry

*Seasonally creates leather bags and belts, footwear

Opening Gala Show PhilippineFashionWeek2008

too bad the beadwork on the net doesn't clearly capture the detail on the photo...
oh well. i still love it!anyway ;)

photos by ian ong
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"WHYDAH" Design Fusion Spring/Summer '09 PhilippineFashionWeek2008

Philippine Fashion Week ‘08

Spring/Summer 2009

Category: Design Fusion
Title: “WHYDAH” (pronounced Wih-Dah)


The oceans bright ripe corals that bring glee

Cascading waters of the purple night sea
Gigantic green vines hanging over the ship’s gaff

This collection portrays a pirate feel in their behalf

An apposite representation of a pirate’s code of dressing, infusing a number of distinguished buccaneer possessions yet keeping the wearability of each piece for modern times. Despite the predominantly obvious inspiration from rags, this collection still presents the right amount of elegance.

Fabric: Cotton, Linen, Jersey, Corduroy

Colors: Capturing the strong colors from the sea

*Brief background: WHYDAH
· First ever pirate ship discovered in North America

· An ex-slave ship under the command of Lawrence Prince (London 1715)

· Captain Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy, chased down Whydah in February 1717 and claimed her as his flagship

*I first read about her a few years ago in National Geographic magazine, which I fondly thought of to use as my inspiration for this season’s collection.

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Designer Walk Oct2008

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"WHYDAH" Design Fusion Review Oct2008

A Pretty Good Mix: Design Fusion '09
by Trina T. Epilepsia
posted on Tuesday October 28, 2008


Design Fusion always captures an interesting crowd during Philippine Fashion Week. The crowd is a hodgepodge of people, but they are mostly young and dressed like they just stepped off the virtual pages of fashion/party blogs. This underlying style preference, which is playful and highly referential, is what buoys most of the designers who join the Design Fusion show.

As the name implies, the show has designers that are taking styles of old and fusing them with newer, more modern styles. This season's ten designers pushed and teased the concept of fusion, bringing styles from all over the world, from times past, present, and future and weaving them into collections that are uniquely theirs. Alodia Cecilia opened the show with a sexy and urban take on the swashbuckling Pirate. Models paraded in loose, diaphanous tops, shorts, and skirts in muted purple, vivid orange, and chartreuse. This is only Cecilia's second showing at PFW, but already she has established a distinct style. One of these distinguishing marks is her handmade jewelry and accessories, which she showcased this time around as headpieces, necklaces, and bags. Cecilia ditched the overused skulls and crossbones, opting instead to use rope-y chains with dangling bones, metal, and leather fringe.

Design Fusion Collection of Philippine Fashion Week Spring / Summer 2009. The show was held last October 26 at the SMX Convention Center, Pasay City.

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"URBAN ROYALTY" New Generation Collection May2008

To watch the PFW Video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCn9bNZAGvI&feature=related

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION:

“Urban Royalty” celebrates the majestic resonance of African-Asian ethnicity,toned down into contemporary silhouette
The collection is virtually a concoction of nomadic street culture and elegant casual sophisticated arm-stretch dresses
Each outfit has a story of its own, each one is deliberately intensified with a core inspiration from unexpected aspects of nature’s effect to human and human’s reaction towards nature
“Urban Royalty” A collection of wearable and practical fashion that manifests sovereignty.

Photos by Ian Ong
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Video by Ms. Tina Herrera
Runway Productions
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"URBAN ROYALTY" New Generation Review May 2008

THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT
Thoughtful, provocative, and technically accomplished, new designers signal brighter days ahead for Philippine fashion.

by: Yonina Chan

The second night of the ongoing Philippine Fashion Week series was both revelatory and a revelation: The young, fundamentally aspiring designers in the New Generation showing displayed a marked sophistication in both philosophies and techniques rarely experienced in previous entry-level showcases. Manila Bulletin selected five of the most accomplished and provocative of the participating designers:


ALODIA CECILIA

Tying together a broad spectrum of influences, young designer Alodia Cecilia’s collection features a selection of urban nomadic pieces, punctuated by a few dressier styles that reference elements of Asian and Western medieval royalty.

Influenced by her mother and grandmother to go into fashion, Alodia started her fashion studies with a course in fashion illustration at Golden Hands, then proceeded with pattern making at the Fashion Institute of the Philippines. Herself strongly inclined to the visual arts, she also took up short courses in painting at the College of Saint Benilde, and is scheduled for a full degree course in Fine Arts in 2009.

Alodia’s fashion week collection is at once concerned with the very practical ideas of the daily commute, as well as the incorporation of her own line of accessories (which, in fact, she has been better known for). Addressing the concerns of the average commuter, most silhouettes of her casual pieces—which are inspired by the forms of traditional Thai dolls, although minimized or exaggerated in certain parts—are, before anything, very wearable and practical for daily use. Additionally, Alodia incorporated other practical details such as calf pockets on skinny pants (for easy access of coins while riding a jeep) and a small backpack on her turtle-inspired vest (which, notably, uses wool piping to create a mosaic design).

Alodia’s accessories, on the other hand, either contrast the rugged textures of her casual designs, or alternately underscore the idea of sovereignty in her dressier pieces. Notably, her headpieces made of Swarovski crystals, freshwater pearls, silver metal components, and handmade snakeskin beads provide a modern translation of the glamour and opulence of medieval times.

www.mb.com.ph/issues/2008/06/01/20080601126173.html

Philippine Fashion Week: A New Generation

by Trina T. Epilepsia posted on Tuesday June 3, 2008

Philippine fashion's torchbearers were front and center last week, showcasing their debut collections during Philippine Fashion Week 2008.The New Generation Collection featured 12 brand spanking new designers, showcasing their debut collections on the second day of Fashion Week. While guests were brought in at 8:15 pm (in order to start the 8:30 show on time), most of the audience decided to arrive not-so-fashionably late, thus delaying the start of the show. Since half of the seats were placed ingeniously in the middle of the rectangular catwalk, event organizers had to wait for the middle seats to be filled up before starting, as latecomers would've disrupted the sashaying models.

Nonetheless the show itself was a success. The 12 young designers showed a stunning display of range and originality, and while there were some misses, strong collections from some individuals drove up the applause as the designers took their place on stage.Fashion week was held in the newly opened SMX Convention Center, a monolith structure found next to the sprawling SM Mall of Asia. The imposing steel and glass structure housed several hangar-like halls. The New Generation Collection was held in Hall 3, which complete whitewashed, with rows and rows of neatly lined up white seats surrounding a sleek catwalk. Guests and media personnel were all chatting up a storm before the show, pausing only to look up each time time a fashion or showbiz celebrity slinked to their seats or when director extraordinaire Joey Espino Jr. strode by in his white and silver ensemble. Finally, perhaps a good 40 minutes after the doors were opened, the lights dimmed and the throbbing beats began.

A short introduction video was flashed on screen, segueing smoothly into the collections; first up was accessories maverick Alodia Ceciclia. Her 'Urban Royalty' collection was a very feminine take on African and Asian styles, softening them up jewel colors and loose, modern silhouettes. Cecilia's intricate accessories were the definite highlight of the collection, as chains snaked their way around the models' napes and temples; they were statement pieces that retained their wearability even as they elevate a simple ensemble to new dazzling heights.

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