Valdes Designs

The internationally celebrated Filipino brand Valdes Designs is the passion project of sisters Bea and Margarita Valdes. Style arbiters and fashion editors have long swooned over the beautifully beaded, layered and embroidered handbags, clothing and jewelry designed by Bea and hand crafted by local women artisans in the Manila-based studio. Considered wearable art pieces, each item takes weeks to make. Kate Moss has worn the iconic large-stone bib necklaces on magazine covers. Recent seasonal clothing collections feature paint-splashed dresses that evoke abstract expressionist artists and blouses with delicately layered floral petals. Though Bea was recently named Editor in Chief of Vogue Philippines, she still powers the creative side of Valdes.