The Kuritib Nest

At the last episode of Project Runway Philippines, where Rajo Laurel commented on VeeJay Floresca’s take of the daster, or the unofficial old maid’s dress, where he said that

the daster has never been glamorous

or something, well that struck a cord.

The thing is why would he say something like that? Aren’t designers supposed to make old things and new-ify them so that they would match the taste of the newer generation?

Seriously, that comment irked me a bit, as I look up to him as one of the few to have made it through. I am not saying he is the best in designing, but he is the best in marketing himself. Which really says a lot, since this is a third world country after all.

Anyway, to the designers out there, don’t comment about what a designer cant or can remake or take a good outlook or interpretation on because as artists you CANNOT limit yourself. I may not know much about technicalities yet, but at least I know that aesthetics does not have a beginning nor end.

*I love Rajo Laurel to bits, as with other designers, as I think of them as great examples.