Ayala Foundation, Inc. – Filipinas Heritage Library, and
U.S. Embassy in the Philippines
present

AFTER THE WAR: 
FASHIONING THE PHILIPPINES
with Mark Lewis Higgins

A free webinar part of Liberation: War & Hope, a series of events in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII.

August 27, 2022 (Saturday)
10AM – 12 NN (PH time*)
Online: Zoom and Facebook Live
FREE Webinar with Certificate
*Convert to your time zone

After the War: Fashioning the Philippines tells a story about the end of destruction and the beginning of creation through the work of Salvacion Lim Higgins. This will include her early life up to the first decade of her career as a fashion designer in post WWII Manila. From the period of Liberation, the Philippines was on the cusp of rebirth. It was a time to rebuild, reimagine – and even refashion – a new nation.

“Liberation Talks” is part of the series of events under the Liberation: War & Hope banner program, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. It is organized by Ayala Foundation, Inc. (AFI) through FHL, in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines. Manila Bulletin is the official media partner.

Mark Lewis Higgins
Speaker

Mark Lewis Lim Higgins was educated at the International School Manila, and eventually studied fine art in Toronto and fashion design in New York. In the succeeding years, he would spend several months at a time painting in Rome, then between New York and Hong Kong mounting his exhibitions. In 2009 he curated the exhibition SLIM: Salvacion Lim Higgins – Philippine Haute Couture 1947 to 1990 at the National Museum of the Philippines, also co-authoring the accompanying coffee table book. He then co-authored a second book in 2015 entitled Fashionable Filipinas: An Evolution of the Philippine National Dress in Photographs 1860-1960. Over the past twelve years, as part of his family advocacy for artistic education, Mark has served as Director of Slim’s Fashion & Arts School, founded by his mother in 1960. He is about to launch his third coffee table book – a complete collection of his body of work over the past thirty years, entitled Tales from a Drawing Table.