Jaki Peñalosa
About our Designer
Jaki Peñalosa
A Fashion designer for more than 25 years. An advocate of our local hand-woven fabrics. A supporter of local arts and crafts. Currently I am the President of the Designers Guild of Iloilo, a non-profit organization composed of fashion Designers all over the city that aims to promote Iloilo as the center of Fashion and the Arts for Western Visayas.
SPecialization
Hablon is a hand woven fabric used for clothes and tablecloths.
It is taken from a Hiligaynon word “Habol” meaning “to weave”. The cloth is made from various materials such as cotton, jusi (banana fiber), piña (pineapple fiber).