Manual Magazine, October 2004
Bench began 17 years ago with one stall in a corner of SM Makati. Today, it is every mall owner’s locator of choice, with 11 brands in 230 stores in 5 countries, and with 2500 employees in 30,000 sq m of retail space. It sells clothes, underwear, toiletries, cosmetics, furniture, grooming services, […]
Manual Magazine, October 2004
To amuse the crew at a movie shoot, Judy Ann Santos supposedly once brought a bowl of rice over to a sleeping Piolo, and, never taking her gaze off him, wolfed the rice down without any viand whatsoever.
But Piolo isn’t just eye candy. He’s one of the few local artists who’ve achieved […]
Homestyle Magazine, Jan 2008
“A story well told,” Robert McKee famously wrote, “gives you the very thing you cannot get from life: meaningful emotional experience. In life, experiences become meaningful with reflection in time. In art, they are meaningful now, at the instant they happen.”The implications of this is what drives most artists and cultural workers […]
