Fernando Alvarez invades Pilipinas Men’s Fashion Week

By Rich M. Salibay            Photos by Jonas Yu and Joy Arguil

​The last-minute changes of the sequence in the 2016 Pilipinas Men’s Fashion Week 8, which gave way to the special participation of Mister Puerto Rico International 2015 Fernando Alvarez, unfolded more appeal and excitement and rocked the House Manila, Remington Hotel, Resorts World Manila last January 21. 

With a sultry open­ing number headed by no less than the Caribbean beauty king himself, the venue’s temperature hit its highest mark. Fashion fans went restless as the group of men strutted off their shapes and forms down the runway, wearing the creations of Mon Favila.
Fernando’s invasion sent the caliber of the Pilipi­nas Men’s Fashion Week to a notch higher, making it an international fashion fair. 
The Puerto Rico na­tive’s participation created a fusion between Filipino and Latino fashion senses and styles. The fusion re­sulted to a night of celestial rapture in fashion, which kept everybody excited for PMFW’s next season. 
Fernando came all the way from the South American continent through the invita­tion of Psalmstre chief exec­utive officer Jim Acosta. Last week, he graced the galleon-themed float of Psalmstre in the Sinulog grand parade, where he played the charac­ter of Portuguese conquis­tador Ferdinand Magellan. Fernando is Psalmstre’s international New Placen­ta for Men ambassador. 
Fernando, with his Pinoy model counter­parts, capped the show with a literally cap­tivating and classy runway number don­ning the creations of Dauson Bermtay. The fashion show was di­rected by ShandyMon­tecarlo Lim.