We went to the Ayala Museum ( A Visit to the Ayala Museum July 2, 2010 ) mainly for this event
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Thank you to those who graced the event and bought candles to support a good cause
It was our first time to witness the Eolipile which was something very interesting and new to us…
Amazing how this guy made the background music just by using different things- rubber, stones, tubes…
Click on the photo below to go to their website and read more about Eolipile
Last month, we had the chance to visit the Ayala Museum. Though it is so near and conveniently located to us, we obviously take it for granted as this is our first time to visit the museum since it opened in 2004.
We of course love the Arturo Luz sculptures
At that time, there was a Manansala exhibit going on… BEAUTIFUL!!! They were strict and did not allow photos to be taken for any of the exhibits
As we attended an event that evening, they were giving tours for us guests…
Due to limited time, we quickly visited the Gold exhibit and the Ceramic collection by Roberto Villanueva. We were so amazed! It’s all beautifully done and presented and the collections are so rich! It’s worth the visit!
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Triennale Design Museum, Milan
Greta Garbo, the Swedish Sphinx, and Salvatore Ferragamo, The Shoemaker of Dreams, as his autobiography is titled, met in what was to be a small chapter in these two great figures’ historic lives. Their first encounter lasted just long enough for Ferragamo to create a pair of custom-made shoes. The year was 1927 and the place is Hollywood, before Salvatore returned to Florence to found his company in Italy. The star continued to buy her shoes at the Hollywood Boot Shop while it remained under Ferragamo’s ownership and later she went to Saks Fifth Avenue in New York. In August 1929, the pair met again in Florence. “As young as when I first met her”, Greta entered the shop with an old pair of cord sandals. “I don’t have any shoes,” she said. “And I want to walk”. In five sittings, Ferragamo designed a series of low-heel shoes, including a red calfskin sandal with an ankle strap that she particularly liked. She left the store with 70 pars of shoes, most of which differed only in color.
Two years ago, Garbo’s great-nephew, Craig Reisfield, was passing through Florence and stopped to visit Ferragamo and its fascinating museum dedicated to the founder’s history and his revolutionary shoes, located in the historic Palazzo Spini Feroni, the company’s headquarter’s since 1938. While speaking with the Museum Director Stefania Ricci, Craig (a direct descendant of the actress, as he is the son of her only niece, Gray Resifield) mentioned the extensive collection of dresses, hats, scarves, gloves, and countless pairs of pants and shirts that her family has carefully kept – Greta Garbo’s entire personal wardrobe, as no one has ever seen or studied it before.
THE LOOK OF NON-CONFORMITY
This is how the idea first came about for an exhibit on the legend of Greta Garbo beyond the silver screen, a show on one of the most mysterious icons of an era when the new art of film was just beginning to experiment with its ability to seduce and influence the masses. In 1929, Metro Goldwin Meyer assigned costume designer Adrian Adolph Greenberg to work with her, and the relationship they forged gave life to her unmistakable style which, even on set, embraced her personal taste for comfort and ease, and which above all, drew attention to her stunning face. Draped cowls, stand-away collars and very high necklines became the signature elements of Garbo/Adrian look, with resounding success. All over, her fans covered up, rather than baring themselves, creating a generation of Mata Haris in cinched-waist trench coats. Although Adrian’s tireless toil was meant for film, with magnificent costumes for movies like Queen Christina and Anna Karenina, the two influenced each other, as could be seen in Garbo’s personal wardrobe, which subtly changed when she decided to retire after the new look for Two Faced Woman (1941) proved to be an utter disaster, from the dresses to the perm mandated by Directory George Cukor and Hairdresser Sydney Guillaroff.
THE EXHIBIT
The show begins with a selection of film costumes recovered from the institutes, museums, and private collections that have had them since the dispersion of the MGM warehouses. The recovered pieces included a stunning dress with embroidered neckline worn in Inspiration, on loan from Drexel University in Philadelphia, and the dress work in Queen Christina (the Museum at Fit).
One section is devoted to Garbo’s face, which Roland Barthes called an idea today. Her portrait was painted by Clarence Sinclair Bull, among others, and Cecil Beaton shot the celebrated passport photo of her.
Everyday elegance brings together never before seen clothing and accessories that belonged to the star. The collection includes Louis Vuitton suitcases, one of which was entirely intended to hold shoes, as well as Valentina, Pucci, and Givenchy models, and Ferragamo shoes, including one of the creations that she was the very first to wear: a shoes with a stitchless upper, soft toe, and simple clasp.
The show also includes incredibly glamorous, yet simple sandal with a small round heel,
a velvet ballerina shoe for the evening and lovely lace up shoes whose small details – one pair has a slightly raised toe,
the other a special closure – underscore Ferragamo’s creativity in the custom designs for one of his favorite customers. All the shoes were created with simplicity and comfort in mind, the epitome of Garbo glamour.
In the Philippines, Salvatore Ferragamo is exclusively distributed by Stores Specialists Inc. (SSI) and is located at Power Plant Mall, Greenbelt 4, Rustan’s Tower, Rustan’s Makati, Alabang Town Centre and Rustan’s Ayala Cebu.
We only rode a taxi once and we fortunately bumped into a very interesting taxi driver….
I saw these dancing soda cans in his taxi and I showed it to my son….and the taxi driver told us that he made them! We were amazed! He said that he does it during his spare time in the taxi since he spends most of his time inside the car.
Then he showed us in his cellphone all his other works!!! I told him to give me his email address so I can show him my website, but he said he does not have email and does not have time because he gets home so late from work already since he has to earn a living in his cab. I told him to make more dancing soda cans and sell them!!! 
During the Bulacan Festival at Rustan’s, there was a beautiful exhibit of gowns of all the First Ladies of the Philippines and the prominent Filipino fashion designers who created the gowns
Today I pay tribute to my all time idol, my late grandmother, Lola Glecy. She is one of the pioneers in Philippine retailing. She has met many great retailers, world leaders and many other great personalities from all over the world and she impressed them all!! She is a woman ahead of her time, a woman with impeccable taste and a remarkable person that makes us Filipinos proud for she proved how a woman and a Filipina can achieve great things!!
To everyone at work, she is known to us as GRT. You can ask all the old timers at Rustan’s department store who have encountered GRT and they will always have an inspiring or touching moment in their lives from GRT. We all admire her and try to follow her….which is very difficult..because no one will ever be like her. Though she is not physically with us anymore, she is very much alive in our hearts and in our everyday life.
Beautiful interpretations through art
by one of the Greatest Filipino Artists - Fernando Amorsolo
and by world renowned Betsy Westendorp
I found this photo in my files but cannot read the artist
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