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The modern voice on fashion, culture and lifestyle. More than just a collection of art, BLNC is a movement, an uprising, a representation of reality.

BLNC is a platform that amplifies the voices of creative individuals such as artists, photographers, designers, and musicians, giving us a peek into their daily lives. Through their triumphs over creative blocks, their passions, and their viewpoints, we gain insight into what drives and inspires them. Our magazine showcases emerging talent through their unique perspectives, connecting these vision

aries to a global audience on a more personal level. BLNC is an online fashion and art publication that is devoted to the underground youth, the enigmatic, and the implicit.

31/08/2026

From Chicago to Manila, Filipino streetwear finds its way home.

PENSHOPPE Designer Lab teams up with Chicago-based Filipino streetwear label ABAKADA for a 23-piece collection that brings Filipino heritage into contemporary streetwear.

Rooted in identity, culture, and the Filipino diaspora, the collaboration brings together two creative perspectives connected by a shared cultural foundation.

Chicago meets Manila. Heritage meets the streets.

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30/08/2026

WOOYOUNG enters a new fashion chapter.
ATEEZ’s WOOYOUNG has been named the first global ambassador of STUDIO TOMBOY, marking a new chapter for the Korean fashion label and its growing presence beyond Korea.

Following a successful summer campaign that saw pieces worn by WOOYOUNG sell out shortly after release, the partnership now moves into a long-term collaboration for the brand’s Fall/Winter 2026 season.

With his expressive style and STUDIO TOMBOY’s spirit of freedom, individuality, and originality, the pairing feels natural.
The first campaign images and films arrive August 31.

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29/08/2026

What happens when you look inward to move forward?

For MNL Fashion Week 2026, Proudrace explores reconstruction, experimentation, and the everyday through a collection rooted in the instinct to deconstruct and rebuild.
Inspired by the natural movement of fabric, from curtain folds to incidental drapes, the collection plays with proportion, unexpected prints, reconstruction, and sculptural silhouettes, challenging conventional dressing while remaining wearable.

Today, the brand looks closer to home: local communities, family traditions, friendships, and shared cultural references. For Proudrace, Filipino identity isn’t a limitation. It’s a foundation for innovation.

Experimentation remains at the heart of the studio, with couture-inspired construction and new draping techniques pushing the team beyond what they already know.
And as Proudrace continues to enter the global conversation, the goal remains clear: to build internationally while staying rooted in where it all began.

MNLFW 2026 × BLNC MAG 
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28/08/2026

How did we become who we are today?

As HA.MÜ! approaches its tenth anniversary, the brand turns the lens inward with HA? HA.MÜ!, a collection built around the invisible forces that shape who we become: the people who believed in us, the risks we took, the difficult seasons, and the countless small decisions that brought us here.

Structured in three acts, The Beginning, The Commitment, and The Alignment, the collection reflects on a decade of creative evolution. Its final chapter, I Do! Do I?, reimagines commitment as more than a promise to another person. It becomes a promise to yourself, your creativity, and the community that helped shape you.

For HA.MÜ!, the journey has evolved from creating clothes that simply stand out to creating work that stays with people. Work that makes you question, look twice, and find your own meaning.

Ten years later, HA.MÜ! continues to prove that you don’t need to fit someone else’s definition of success to build something meaningful.

MNLFW 2026 × BLNC MAG 
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27/08/2026

What if taking a pause is also a way of moving forward?

For MNL Fashion Week 2026, ANTONINA presents Not Here Spring Summer 2027, a collection born from the personal need to slow down, disconnect, and create space for reflection.

The collection marks a new chapter for the brand, exploring unfamiliar fabrics, new techniques, shapes, colors, and quieter forms of expression. It is also ANTONINA’s biggest collection to date, making the process as much about growth as it is about design.
At its heart is a simple reminder: changing direction doesn’t mean you’re not moving forward.

ANTONINA continues to build from something personal, transforming feelings, experiences, and beliefs into clothes that carry stories. Stories that don’t need to dictate what Filipino fashion should be, but simply reflect where the designer is now.

Because sometimes, progress looks like pausing.

MNLFW 2026 × BLNC MAG 
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26/08/2026

What if fashion wasn’t about fitting in, but finding a way to make it your own?

For MNL Fashion Week 2026, Charlotte Folk presents a collection inspired by the people they’ve met, places they’ve traveled, and the different lives and lifestyles they’ve encountered along the way.

Rooted in elevated everyday essentials, the brand continues to explore a Filipino design language through subtle references to local music, artists, the tropical climate, and the way Filipinos naturally express themselves through clothes.

But beyond the pieces, Charlotte Folk is about inclusion and community.
Fashion should feel personal. It should give you room to experiment, reinterpret, and wear something in a way that reflects who you are.

The goal isn’t to chase trends. It’s to build a wardrobe that lasts, a community that feels genuine, and a fashion language that leaves space for everyone.

MNLFW 2026 × BLNC MAG 
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25/08/2026

What happens when the rawness of nature meets the brutalism of the city?

For MNL Fashion Week 2026, Lorico returns to the intersection that has shaped the brand from the beginning: the meeting point between the rural and the urban, the organic and the industrial.

The collection becomes a return to nature, while continuing to explore the possibilities that emerge when opposing forces exist together.

For Lorico, design is never static. The brand serves as an incubator for ideas, disciplines, and craftsmanship, with materials becoming collaborators in the creative process. Fabric, in particular, is treated like water, constantly revealing new forms, movement, and possibilities.

Beyond the garments, Lorico sees fashion as a space for freedom, optimism, and imagination. A temporary world where art and design can offer another frequency, another way of seeing.

MNLFW 2026 × BLNC MAG 
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24/08/2026

What happens in the space between an ending and a beginning?

For MNL Fashion Week 2026, RANDOLF presents The Waiting Room, a collection inspired by a deeply personal moment: the passing of the designer’s grandfather just four days before the birth of their niece.
That space between loss and new life became an imagined waiting room, somewhere between the real and the unreal, where memories, hope, uncertainty, and anticipation exist together.

Known for weaving pop culture, music, humor, and storytelling into clothing, RANDOLF turns inward with this collection, exploring the stories we carry through moments of change. And even within its emotional core, there is still room for play, with the designer’s love for repeat patterns making a return.

MNLFW 2026 × BLNC MAG
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23/08/2026

What happens when the legendary Manila Noir action hero becomes a woman?

For MNL Fashion Week 2026, Lilah Roché reimagines the world of late 60s to early 80s Filipino action films through a female lens. Inspired by the films she grew up watching with her parents, Sampaguita Queenpin transforms the familiar story of Asiong Salonga into a new character, beginning as a sampaguita girl outside a church and evolving, look by look, into a powerful queenpin.

Lilah challenges the idea that women in fashion are simply the wearers or the eye candy. Women can construct. Women can engineer. Women can direct clothes.

For Lilah, the artistry doesn’t end where the garment’s exterior begins. She considers the inside just as carefully as what appears on the surface.

“I am the artist of it.”
Because sometimes, the best way to understand a garment is to look inside.

MNLFW 2026 × BLNC MAG

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22/08/2026

What if your memories could become a mixtape?

For MNL Fashion Week 2026, KILL JOY STUDIOS presents KALYE TREZ MIXTAPE, a collection built from the sounds, images, places, and experiences that shaped a q***r Filipino designer growing up in Manila.

From 80s and 90s music and coming-of-age films to family history and the designer’s grandfather’s connection to the Air Force, the collection brings together personal references like tracks on a mixtape. Familiar, nostalgic, and deeply personal, but reinterpreted through a contemporary lens.

Rather than recreating the past, KILL JOY STUDIOS captures its feeling. The result is a collection that asks us to look at our own references and consider how the things we grew up with become part of who we are.

KALYE TREZ MIXTAPE is also part of KILL JOY STUDIOS’ ongoing process of defining its own DNA, a brand that remains a work in progress and a visual journal of its designer’s evolving perspective.

MNLFW 2026 × BLNC MAG

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