Bucketlist: My Fashion Ambition and The Road To SoFA

             There are only two things I want to be after I graduate from college. A full-time surgeon and a part-time fashion designer. On this blog post you are reading right now, lies the history of my fashion ambition and how my road to SoFA started. What is SoFA, you might wonder. I'll explain that later.

              I loved fashion ever since I was young. I always see to it that I'm comfortable and confident with what I wear.......and that I stand out. ((Credits also to my mom for having a good taste in fashion)) Fashion shows the diversity of man. I was amazed by how designers show their creativity and uniqueness through clothes, shoes, etc, and use their creations to  make people find comfort and be happy with what they wear. 

              I started having an interest in the fashion industry when I was 7. That was also when I started to have an interest in designing. I had two folders where I placed all my designs but unfortunately, I forgot where I kept the one with the designs I made when I was 7 after we got flooded. What's left with me now is the folder with my designs when I was 8 or 9 but unfortunately again, there are only a few designs left in the folder. 

Here's a picture of my fashion folder I kept for so many years.

And here's a photo of all the designs left in the folder. I think I lost the other folder and the other designs during the flood in 2009.

               I love to draw. Even until now, I still design clothes, especially dresses. And every time I draw people, I really emphasize what they're wearing and I make sure that I don't leave out details, even how a certain texture looks like. I'll post my creative portfolio with all my recent designs on this blog (it's one of the requirements for my application for SoFA, which I will further blog about in this post after this paragraph). 

                A few years back, I heard about the School of Fashion and the Arts, or the SoFA Design Institute. It is the first specialized design college in the Philippines and is the leading educational institution committed to art. It is located in Makati City. The school provides workshops, short-term courses, and long-term courses related to designing and the the world of fashion.

                  SoFA also provides modern and high-class facilities and great opportunities to their students, who are trained by people who are well-known in the country for their excellence in the field of fashion and design like Marina Benipayo, Luis Espiritu and Richard Papa. 

   

                  Some works of their students are featured in newspapers, fashion shows and exhibits too. 

Some members of the SoFA alumni are famous in the Philippine fashion industry, like Tippy Sy, whose creations have been featured in numerous magazines.

                    I am going to college next year and I have arts for my second choice for what course to take. My first choice is a science course, since I will have to take up a premed course before I proceed to Medicine but I am really determined to apply for SoFA since it has been part of my bucketlist for a million years, and finally I am on the right age too! I'm planning to apply for a scholarship for a 2-year program in Fashion Design and Marketing and if I pass the standards of the SoFA team, I still have to decide whether to make my pre-med course and medicine wait for about two years and join the program, take up my pre-med course and take the program after and proceed to medicine, or not to take the program and just consider SoFA's workshops every summer if I have the time. I started compiling my works in my creative portfolio, which I will post to this blog and send to SoFA by next year together with the other requirements.

 So wish me luck!