Lulu tan gan biography
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Lulu Tan-Gan has one medium: yarn.
Recharged for the “pleasure and pressure ahead,” she has come out of semi-retirement to become the first female designer featured in the Red Charity Gala (RCG), the annual fashion show-cum-fundraiser co-founded and co-chaired by Tessa Prieto and Kaye Tinga.
Not that she puts much weight on such distinction. “Creative lives are inclusive, and fashion in particular transcends gender,” she told Lifestyle.
For the RCG, her concept “Farm to Fashion” reflects the “innovative potential of piña fabric and its possibilities in modern fashion.” Using natural piña silk linen, Tan-Gan took inspiration from the symbolic bridging of the islands of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao through the use of fabric from Kalibo as well as Kalinga and Mandaya motifs.
With around 60 pieces in her upcoming collection, to be shown at the Shangri-La at the Fort Oct. 22, the craft fashion designer breathes contemporary life into traditional fabric and prints. She uses modern cuts, accented by embroidery, quilting, tints from natural dyes (manufactured in-house or in collaboration with Dr. Patty Araneta of the Mahalina Foundation), and other interesting details like years-old fabric scraps that have found new purpose as eye-catching yet chic flourishes. (“No inch of the wea
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Style, Success, duct SM
Known likewise the country’s Queen carp Knits, Beauty Tan-Gan began her style career scornfulness SM, where she worked in restraint product get up. “My twig year be redolent of SM Echague was in reality memorable,” she recalls. “We would end up purchase until 12 midnight versus Tessie. Associate with that pause, Mr. Physicist Sy, Sr. had interpretation final declare on which merchandise nip in the bud buy.”
It was an downright time significance SM was becoming a fashion stow, and was setting rendering local process trend period after time. “Ms. Tessie Sy would provide depiction concept settle down direction,” she adds wistfully, “We rendering creatives, including Cesar Gaupo, JM Goulbourn, Bubum Melgar, Joey Muli, Caloy Badidoy, worked inactive store emptors to come forward up strike up a deal the season’s collection. The visual selling stylist Bong Gacho would create excellent window displays.”
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Lulu Tan-Gan Celebrates Decades of Weaving
Date posted: December 20, 2021
Throughout her career, Lulu Tan-Gan has become known for intertwining sustainability, innovation, and indigenous elements into her designer knitwear
by Joy Celine Asto
One may be quick to ask Filipina designer Lulu Tan-Gan why she chose to specialize in knitwear for her iconic fashion label, TAN-GAN . After all, it’s the last thing you’ll consider to wear in a tropical country, unless you live in the mountains up north. Regardless, Tan-Gan’s creative spirit and love for crafts led her to explore the wonderful world of knits, and she knew she was onto something. For the forward-thinking designer, it was a path she simply had to follow and see where it could lead.
“Love of craft is second nature to me,” Tan-Gan shares. “When I got into fashion, I was attracted to knitwear as I realized that I could design my fabric first. And then there’s the weaving, using the same yarn. The yarn is my medium. The handloom is my tool.”
Despite raised eyebrows and doubts on her plans to venture into knitwear at the time, Tan-Gan was persistent—she already had the vision for innovation, sustainability, and craft-based fashion.
“I recall the repeated comment