Founded by Filipino fashion designer Len Cabili, who began working with weavers in her native region of Mindanao in 2008, Filip + Inna collections feature dresses, tops and shorts with intricate embroidery and beaded textiles. Today, Len works with twenty different groups of women artisans across the country and in a new workshop in Manila. Set around a lovely garden, her new by-appointment-only showroom adjoins the airy workshop, so shoppers can visit the seamstresses before or after browsing the collection, which is displayed in rooms with walls painted in colorful embroidery patterns.

This shop in the Greenbelt Mall was founded by a mother-daughter team who brings the traditions of women weavers in Mindanao to modern fashions.

Filipino designer Rhett Eala is famous for coining the term “fashionalism,” the fusion of fashion and nationalism as well as for designing dresses for celebrities and the wardrobe of Miss Universe Philippines. His latest venture is his eponymous brand of stores that sells his designs along with other Filipino designers. Branches are located in the Greenbelt and Power Plant Malls.