PARA SA'YO
PARA SA’YO (FOR YOU IN ENGLISH; ANATA NO TAME IN NIHONGO) IS A CONTEMPORARY STREETWEAR COLLECTION, WHICH PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE PHILIPPINE WORKFORCE. THE COLLECTION ENCAPSULATES IMAGERIES AND VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE EIGHT FILIPINO WORKERS OR ARCHETYPES. UNDERNEATH EACH OF THE VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FILIPINO LABORERS, ANTONINA EXPLORES ON SOCIALLY-RELEVANT ISSUES REGARDING THE PHILIPPINE WORKFORCE SUCH AS ON SCARBOROUGH SHOAL, EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS (EJKS), WAGE HIKE, CONTRACTUALIZATION, POOR WORKING CONDITIONS, “POACHING,” BRAIN DRAIN, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, AND FEUDALISM, AND ITS IMPACT BROUGHT BY UNJUST SYSTEMS THE COLLECTION’S THEME IS QUITE PERSONAL TO ANTONINA SINCE HER GRANDFATHER IS AN OVERSEAS WORKER, WHO WILL BE RETIRING SOON. SHE DEDICATES HER COLLECTION TO HIM, AND TO ALL THE REST OF THE FILIPINO WORKERS IN THE COUNTRY AND OUTSIDE.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARY FAYE MURPHY
MODEL BY DORA DORADO AND RONI MENESES
STYLING BY DANIELLE BEATRICE TICSAY