17/02/2017
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is simply defined as a store or supermarket for military personnel. Aesthetically, GEN. MDSE. pays homage to this transient military architecture with light tropical materials reminiscent of the demised American bases in tropical Manila.
ESCOLTA, was derived from the Spanish word escoltar, meaning "to escort” which became a hub for the military and expats. Commissaries came to existence when the military came during the American period. The street was lined with shops and boutiques selling imported goods from China, Europe and elsewhere in Latin America that arrived in the nearby port of San Nicolas. By the late 19th century, Escolta flourished into a fashionable business district hosting the city's tallest buildings.
GEN. MDSE. wanted to showcase this "history" through the Kommissary pop-up by inviting the current locus of Filipino designers and brands in the post-colonial present, as a result of decades of change and a culmination of what fashion and its systems are today.
This pop-up is part of GEN. MDSE.'s joint exhibitions at the First United Building - Threading the Landscape - an exhibit that reassess the values of things, history and systems that revolves around Escolta and Manila, and LUXEGROCERY, a campaign treated as installation art located at the HUB.
Featured brands are:
Alaala Sala
Basic Commodity
Denuo
Elevatemnl Apparelmnl
Girl in Transit
GOAT ( Greatest Of All Time ) Clothing
Matá
Orthopedic666
Proudrace
Quirk Clothing
Randolf
Salad Day
Slaves Øf Liberty
Tenement
The Artisan
Launching at Escolta Block Party - February 18, 2017
at the HUB:Make Lab Central Activity Center
Pop-up concept runs from Feb 18-March 5