Filipina flair on display

Rustan's Designers' Circle 2025 partners with PIID to elevate local talent and celebrate inspired living

- RODMILL G. LOPEZ

For many, home isn't just four walls and a roof, it's a personal canvas.

The furniture layout, chosen textures, and how light moves through space all reflect identity. Increasingly, home design is seen as an extension of the self. For women in design, this link between space and story is second nature.

This year's Rustan's Designers' Circle 2025 leans into that idea: designing with personality and purpose. In partnership with the Philippine Institute of Interior Designers (PIID), Rustan's invited four Filipina designers to create distinct vignettes, each one showing how design can express individuality, heritage, and contemporary living. They bring to life 2025's key trends-sustainability, multifunctionality, and earthy tones-using pieces from Rustan's home collections.

Among them are IDr. Cynthia Almario, creative director and co-founder of Atelier Almario; IDr. Cyndi Fernandez-Beltran, creative director of Moss Manila and PIID's vice president; IDr. Cecil P. Ravelas, principal of Red Interior Design; and IDr. Ann Dee-Santiago, principal interior designer of Anndee Design Studio.