QC’s Retashow highlights vogue’s function in combating textile waste

Mayor Pleasure Belmonte with Retashow winners and members

MANILA, Philippines – In Quezon Metropolis, vogue isn’t nearly type — it’s about shaping a greener future.

Six standout designers turned discarded textiles into dazzling kids’s put on at Retashow 2025: QC’s Catwalk to Sustainability, Quezon Metropolis’s flagship sustainable vogue competitors, held not too long ago at Gateway Mall in Araneta Metropolis, Cubao.

Retashow fashions show their stunning designs

Now in its second 12 months, Retashow challenges each aspiring {and professional} designers to reimagine waste as wearable artwork, showcasing the transformative energy of creativity, innovation, and environmental advocacy.

This 12 months, the highlight was on kidswear — pushing members to craft eco-friendly, purposeful, and trendy outfits for kids utilizing upcycled supplies.

Mayor Pleasure Belmonte with Retashow organizers and assist teams

From only one grand winner in 2024, this 12 months’s version acknowledged six designers for his or her outstanding imaginative and prescient and craftsmanship. Every winner took house a P50,000 money prize after impressing the judges with their daring ideas, ingenious use of recycled materials, and dedication to sustainable design.

The Retashow 2025 winners are:

• Nard Patrick Redoble (Barangay Commonwealth)
• Nichole Samson (Apolio Samson)
• Atty. Katherine Ones
• Ma. Pleasure Pauline Castillano (Barangay Talipapa)
• Hazel Roldan
• Neil Bryan Capistrano (Barangay New Hope)

“The change can begin with an thought, in a yarn, on a cliff. Let this runway be an emblem of risk – that the long run shouldn’t be one thing we predict, it is one thing we create,” stated Mayor Pleasure Belmonte, lauding the creativity and advocacy embodied by the finalists.

Entries had been evaluated based mostly on design originality, sustainability and innovation, and market potential — with an esteemed panel of judges that included Camille Rose Albarracin (Founder, Every little thing Inexperienced), Fred Leysa (Affiliate Supervisor, Repamana), and Rhodel Sazon (Advertising Companies and Promoting & Promotions Supervisor, Araneta Metropolis).

Forward of the grand present, 24 finalists participated in intensive seminars and workshops on sustainable design methods, led by business specialists Dars Juson (Repamana), Chris Roxas (Courageous Story), and Ally Gutierrez (Repamana). These classes honed their expertise in respiratory new life into textile waste.

Retashow is a key initiative beneath Quezon Metropolis’s broader sustainability agenda — aiming to scale back textile waste, champion round vogue, and foster community-driven environmental motion.

The occasion is spearheaded by Mayor Pleasure Belmonte in partnership with the Quezon Metropolis Local weather Change and Environmental Sustainability Division.