KATHRYN BERNARDO, MAJA SALVADOR, ERICH GONZALES, JULIA BARETTO
ERICH GONZALES, JULIA BARRETTO, KATHRYN BERNARDO, MAJA SALVADOR
- Photography: Mark Nicdao (At East Jed Root)
- Art Director:
- Creative Director: Suki Salvador
- Stylist: Patrick Galang
- Assistant Stylist:
- Hair: Jing Monis
- Make-Up: Robbie Pinera
- Sittings Editors: Peewee Reyes-Isidro
- Shot on Location: Mattanu Private Game Reserve, Northern Cape, South Africa
We at MEGA welcome you to 436 pages of pure unadulterated fashion with the MEGA September 2014 issue.
Since 2011, MEGA has celebrated the ‘January of Fashion’ with a bang flying across continents to give our readers the best of the international fashion landscape. And every year, The MEGA September issue keeps getting better and better. Multiple covers, fashion editorials and beauty narratives were shot in landmarks such as the Red Square in Moscow, Buckingham Palace and Big Ben in London, Iceland’s floating glacier lagoons, the Escadaria Selarón and the iconic Cristo Redentor statue in Rio de Jainero, and Machu Picchu in Peru. Asking ourselves how to top last year’s September issue was a question that gave us an answer only after months and months of brainstorming. And then it occurred to us, the origin of culture, South Africa.
Almost 12,000 kilometers away from Manila, MEGA flew to the African continent with four cover stars that would create one of the most iconic covers in Philippine fashion history. They are the Philippines’ hottest and brightest young stars Erich Gonzales, Julia Barretto, Kathryn Bernardo and Maja Salvador. All at the top of their game, each of these four girls have already made their respective marks in the industry, but they admit it wasn’t as easy as they, along with everyone else, thought it out to be. In their 20-page story for MEGA’s September issue, Erich, Julia, Kathryn, and Maja share what it’s like to compete in the wilderness that is show business. They shared how wilderness full of hopefuls and veterans all fighting their way to and back in the limelight, a jungle known as show business.
In this day and age where originality is a blurred concept in the world of fashion, we ask which ideas are creations and which ones are simply inspiration. Where did these ideas originate from? This month, we tell you untold stories of the roots of the greatest ideas in the world of fashion—the world’s first people. Our September issue takes inspiration from the originals: the history of Africa. We celebrate the tribes, the safari landscapes, and ecstatic bold prints the continent is known for.
Beauty does not take a backseat in the Big Fashion Issue as we meld it with style. From makeup and hair to health and wellness, our beauty features this month show you how to stay beautiful and stay ahead of the pack. Set against the beautiful and vast African landscape, our beauty editorials for the month of September will captivate you and show you how to stand out in neutral-colored settings.
We are celebrating 436 pages this September, and it only gets better year after year. Every flip of a page opens you to enthralling images that provoke as well as highlight not only the latest trends but also the beauty of South Africa. Expect a lot of exciting changes, intriguing stories, unexpected images, and so much more, starting with your own copy of the September Big Fashion Issue. Peewee Reyes-Isidro, MEGA’s new Editor-In-Chief, said it perfectly, “What you are holding now, dear reader, is the product of that dream, all 436 pages of it.”
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