Cuts and styles of the Festival
As a new Sinulog Festival Queen was crowned at the Cebu City Sports Center last Friday, January 19, the winners and top placers of the first Binibining Cebu pageant ramped up the runway of this year’s edition of Island Souvenirs’ “Cut & Style” fashion pre
Staged at the Northwing Atrium of SM City Cebu, this year’s “Cut & Style” was made distinct with a “journey to the senses” concept, setting the spotlight on the sights, sounds, tastes and connections that have come to define Cebu at this point in 2018.
Mainlined by the “Island Souvenirs x Cary Santiago” collection, the spectacular sight of Santiago’s designs drew attention to the ambivalence of the athleisure trend – featuring fineries that were neither over nor underdressed in tone.
Santiago’s creations complemented very well with Island Souvenirs’ Sinulog 2018 collections worn by Cebu’s top recording talents, homegrown food-trepreneurs, up-andcoming fashion influencers and social media personalities who are at the top of their keeping in touch game.
Now on its fifth year, this year’s “Cut & Style” fashion presentation really celebrated the sensual delights that have become indicative of the Sinulog, Cebu and the Cebuano.
• In 1964, the first heart transplant was performed on a human patient at the
University of Mississippi by surgeon
James Hardy, who’d performed the first human lung transplant only seven months before. The recipient was a man in his late 60s who was fatally ill with heart disease, and the proposed donor was a young man who was dying from irreparable brain damage. The older man’s heart was bypassed, but the young man still clung to life. The patient had agreed to an alternative donor and there was no choice but to go ahead. The replacement heart worked, but it was too small and the man died within hours. The heart’s previous owner weighed only 96 pounds. He wasn’t a man but a chimpanzee!
• In 1972, 100 people were poisoned at a wedding in New Delhi, India. They’d all gotten drunk on large amounts of illegal hooch, which turned out to be lethal cocktail of pure wood alcohol and varnish. The police traced the drink’s distiller, but found him, his mother, and his brother dead ─ they’d been at the wedding too and had drunk their own poison!
─ from Today’s The Day by Jeremy Beadle (Signet)