nights with the new lounge-itude
more wearable, and add chunky accessories. Nothing too soft or feminine, or else it becomes too boudoir.”
With flowing mojitos and Bea Tantoco providing the groove, the launch was less a fashion show than a house cocktail party with beautiful guests dressed in their sexiest pantulog. “It’s current, a new take on the modern woman’s lifestyle. What you wear at home is the same thing you wear for coffee with friends, or when you go pick up your kids,” explains Rustan’s buyer Katrina Tantoco- Lobregat. “The chemises can be worn with leggings, stilettos or chunky heels — that already is an outfit for a club.” And when you come home from the club, you just have to kick off your shoes and hop into bed.
Stephanie Kienle-gonzalez agrees with the collection’s versatility. “It’s quite easy to work with Josie ( the brand). The material is so silky and the prints are so vivid and vibrant. I just tucked this caftan into a simple pair of tailored black shorts,” says the newly married Philux marketing manager.
Designer Rosanna Ocampo Rodriguez is no stranger to the slinky slip with spirited prints, and feels instantly at home in Josie. “I can really connect with the bold colors and bright patterns, the mixing and matching of prints,” she says, and outfit-wise, she’s good to go with just the caftan and a killer pair of heels. “It’s natural.”
With pieces all below P5,000, loungewear-as-everywear is set to become the new natural. It’s sexy, comfortable and playful, and it’s not just a look, as Natori herself calls it, but a “mindset.”