QC’s Retashow highlights style’s function in combating textile waste

Mayor Pleasure Belmonte with Retashow winners and individuals

MANILA, Philippines – In Quezon Metropolis, style isn’t nearly model — it’s about shaping a greener future.

Six standout designers turned discarded textiles into dazzling youngsters’s put on at Retashow 2025: QC’s Catwalk to Sustainability, Quezon Metropolis’s flagship sustainable style competitors, held lately at Gateway Mall in Araneta Metropolis, Cubao.

Retashow fashions show their lovely designs

Now in its second 12 months, Retashow challenges each aspiring {and professional} designers to reimagine waste as wearable artwork, showcasing the transformative energy of creativity, innovation, and environmental advocacy.

This 12 months, the highlight was on kidswear — pushing individuals to craft eco-friendly, purposeful, and trendy outfits for youngsters utilizing upcycled supplies.

Mayor Pleasure Belmonte with Retashow organizers and help teams

From only one grand winner in 2024, this 12 months’s version acknowledged six designers for his or her exceptional imaginative and prescient and craftsmanship. Every winner took house a P50,000 money prize after impressing the judges with their daring ideas, ingenious use of recycled materials, and dedication to sustainable design.

The Retashow 2025 winners are:

• Nard Patrick Redoble (Barangay Commonwealth)
• Nichole Samson (Apolio Samson)
• Atty. Katherine Ones
• Ma. Pleasure Pauline Castillano (Barangay Talipapa)
• Hazel Roldan
• Neil Bryan Capistrano (Barangay New Hope)

“The change can begin with an concept, in a yarn, on a cliff. Let this runway be a logo of risk – that the longer term is just not one thing we predict, it is one thing we create,” mentioned Mayor Pleasure Belmonte, lauding the creativity and advocacy embodied by the finalists.

Entries have been evaluated primarily based on design originality, sustainability and innovation, and market potential — with an esteemed panel of judges that included Camille Rose Albarracin (Founder, The whole lot Inexperienced), Fred Leysa (Affiliate Supervisor, Repamana), and Rhodel Sazon (Advertising and marketing Providers and Promoting & Promotions Supervisor, Araneta Metropolis).

Forward of the grand present, 24 finalists participated in intensive seminars and workshops on sustainable design methods, led by trade consultants Dars Juson (Repamana), Chris Roxas (Courageous Story), and Ally Gutierrez (Repamana). These periods honed their expertise in respiration new life into textile waste.

Retashow is a key initiative beneath Quezon Metropolis’s broader sustainability agenda — aiming to scale back textile waste, champion round style, and foster community-driven environmental motion.

The occasion is spearheaded by Mayor Pleasure Belmonte in partnership with the Quezon Metropolis Local weather Change and Environmental Sustainability Division.