De La Salle-College Of St. Benilde Bags Top Prize At 1st Aboitiz Green Fashion Revolution In Manila

With a striking blue-white portfolio highlighting the pressing issue of water pollution, De La Salle-College of St. Benilde (DLS-CSB) was declared the grand prize winner at the Aboitiz Green Fashion Revolution 2016 last January 30, the first ever to be staged in Manila.

Besting the collections from two other schools, namely the University of the Philippines Diliman and Asia Pacific College, DLS-CSB wowed the hundred-plus crowd at SMX Convention Center Aura with its edgy design concept dubbed “Eiron,” from the Greek word for “irony.”

“We wanted to spread awareness of how each and every one of us are killing the waters and suffocating it with pollution. The biggest irony is that we, its caretakers, are the very source of its pain and destruction,” DLS-CSB said.

Aside from winning a P50,000 cash prize and the opportunity to implement a corporate social responsibility project in coordination with the Aboitiz Foundation, DLS-CSB similarly swept all five special awards, winning the Best Clothing Design, Best Accessories Design, Best Bag Design, and Best Footwear Design titles.

An annual favorite within Cebu’s college and university fashion circuit for the past four years, the Aboitiz Green Fashion Revolution—with the theme “ECOUTURE: Greener Design for a BetterWorld”—successfully debuted in Manila for the first time this year.