BLUE CARREON

INTERNATIONAL FASHION JOURNALIST

Read the style column of Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post or Singapore’s Harper’s Bazaar, and chances are, you’re reading Blue Carreon’s words. The fashion and lifestyle writer also acts as content editor for the Style Intel website, and contributor for Forbes, Huffington Post, GQ China and maintains a column in Men's Folio Singapore.

A champion of Philippine fashion and accessory designers, he likes to think his work has helped highlight local talents on an international platform.

“The logo for my brand, Blue Carreon Home, has an inherently Filipino motif,” he shares of its modernized and more geometric design. The cane-design or Solihiya, serves as the starting point for many of his pieces in home accessories—mirrors, sconces and boxes, to name a few.

“I find that designers are no longer restrained by creating something that has to look distinctly Filipino.” He believes that designers are now able to think expansively and extensively, using motifs, crafts and techniques that are from The Philippines, rendering them into products that resonate with an international audience. And they don’t have to look exotic.

“Daily, I tell people that very likely, most of the beautiful things they have in their homes were made in the Philippines,” says the creativity maven, who recently opened his home design flagship store in the Philippines, at the Century City Mall in Makati and is currently working on a coffee table book that will be published in New York this fall.

“I miss the optimism and smiles and the pace of life (in Manila).” Blue confesses. “I live in Hong Kong and New York, where it’s always frenetic and harried.”

Still, despite work demanding time away from his country, Blue Carreon’s work is a rare Filipino contribution to the global fashion scene. His voice enlightens a global audience, while inspiring a Philippine one.—RT