Phl representatives for AirAsia Runway Ready Designer Search 2016 Grand Finale revealed

Three young aspiring designers have been selected to represent the Philippines at the Grand Finale of AirAsia Runway Ready Designer Search 2016 which will be held in Kuala Lumpur this August.
 The Top 3 were selected from the Philippines leg of the Asean-wide designer search auditions held recently in Best Western Antel Plus Hotel in Makati City. The auditions will continue in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Bangkok subsequently to look for the Top 3 young designers to represent each country.
 This designer search, which has entered its second year-running is part of AirAsia’s continuous efforts in developing talents and empowering youth across the region and will be a platform for young aspiring designers across the region to catapult their careers in the fashion industry.
 Mary Camille Veloso and Bea Samson from Slim’s Fashion and Art School and Ron Xavier Santos from Fashion Institute of Design and Arts in Davao went through two rounds of judging and were selected based ond design creativity and originality, consistency of their collection, adherence to the Asean team, practicality and stage presentation.
 The panel of judges consists of Anthony Cesar Ramirez, Filipino fashion designer; Patrick Galang, Fashion Editor of L’Officiel Manila; Captain Rolando Ching, Chief Pilot for Training of Philippines AirAsia; Andrew Tan, Founder of Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week Ready to Wear and Vivy Yusof, Founder of FashionValet.
 Captain Rolando Ching, Chief Pilot for Training of Philippines AirAsia said, “This designer search is a good platform for our young, up-and-coming Filipino designers to showcase their capabilities on an international scale. It was not easy for us to narrow down to the Top 3 finalists from the hundreds of submissions that came in online as we saw diverse and outstanding sketches displayed today at the audition here in Manila. The Top 3 Filipino finalists will be developing their collection for the runway during the Grand Finale in August and we wish them all the best!”
 The Top 3 representing the Philippines at the prestigious runway of KL Fashion Week Ready to Wear 2016 will stand a chance to walk away as ‘AirAsia’s Most Promising Young Designer 2016’ and prizes worth almost P4 Million including a confirmed show segment to showcase his or her full collection at KLFW RTW 2017; mentorship from the KLFW RTW team; P250,000 sponsored by FashionValet to produce a capsule collection and sold on fashionvalet.com; 150,000 AirAsia BIG Points sponsored by AirAsia BIG, AirAsia or AirAsia X flights, and more prizes to be revealed soon.
 AirAsia is also KLFW RTW 2016’s Preferred Travel Partner and will be flying in fashion designers throughout the AirAsia Group’s extensive route network including from Singapore, India, Indonesia, China, Australia and South Korea to be featured on the KLFW RTW 2016 runway. Experience KLFW RTW 2016 this August by flying with AirAsia and earn BIG Points.
 Follow AirAsia’s Youtube Channel (youtube.com/user/AirAsia) for webisodes featuring the journey of all participants for the region-wide AirAsia Runway Ready Designer Search 2016, or follow the hashtag #AirAsiaRunway on other social media channels such as Facebook (facebook.com/AirAsiaPhilippines) and Twitter (twitter.com/AirAsiaPH).