Slim Inspires

Renowned Slim’s Fashion & Arts School paid tribute to Salvacion

Lim-Higgins, the school’s founder, during the Best of Student Work 2017 exhibit held at the SM Megamall’s Mega Fashion Hall recently. Also launched during the exhibit was the Salvacion Lim-Higgins Education Fund to provide scholarships to promising students.

The Slim Inspires exhibit is a joint project of Slim’s Fashion & Arts School and SM. The exhibit showcased garments cut and sewn by dressmaking/ patternmaking and draping students as part of their exams. Sketches conceptualized and drawn by fashion design students as well as hand-sewn

barongs of the school’s British bespoke tailoring course were also on display.

Slim’s Fashion & Arts School was founded in Manila by Salvacion and her sister

Purificacion Lim, who both wrote the highly technical lessons that continue to serve as a foundation for the school’s curriculum today — a procedure that is known as the Slim’s method. Graduates of the school who have become successful designers include their first graduate

in 1961 Oskar Peralta, Joe Salazar, Cesar Gaupo, Oliver Tolentino, Michael Cinco, Ezra Santos and Joey Samson. The event was also made possible by Swatch, SM Appliance Center, Skyworth Philippines Corp., Stationery at The SM Store and Faber Castell.

Mark and Sandy Higgins (second and third from left) with (from left) Loraine Casey, SM’s Millie Dizon and Joan Taylor.

(From left) Model and photographer Jo Ann Bitagcol with top fashion designers and Slim’s alumni Joey Samson, Ivarluski Aseron and Albert Andrada.

Friends of Slim’s (from left) Karen Batungbacal de Venecia, Chinggay Lopez, Rose Palou and Cristina Morasa.

(From left) Sandy Higgins, Irene MarcosAraneta, Michael Salientes and Bernice Romualdez-Ocampo.

Swatch’s Virgie Ramos with Tessa PrietoValdes.

Ballet Philippines president Margie Moran.

Mara Coson and Mark Higgins.

Fashion designers Milka Quin and Patrice Diaz.