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                    [Title] => Manila Fashion Week 2025 champions Filipino fabrics in partnership with DOST-PTRI
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With the rebranding, fashion enthusiasts are naturally expecting things to be different with MNLFW.

[DatePublished] => 2025-10-12 12:41:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1805089 [AuthorName] => C. Mendez Legaspi [SectionName] => Fashion and Beauty [SectionUrl] => fashion-and-beauty [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2025/10/12/mnl-fashion-week-2024_2025-10-12_12-50-41988_thumbnail.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 2436467 [Title] => Carlos Yulo wears 'fabric of the future' by Avel Bacudio, DOST-PTRI [Summary] =>

Fashion designer Avel Bacudio collaborated with the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Textile Research Institute in a fundraising fashion show called “Gintong Sinag: Hinabi ng Lakas, Ginawa nang may Pagmamalaki.”

[DatePublished] => 2025-04-16 12:21:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1805089 [AuthorName] => C. Mendez Legaspi [SectionName] => Fashion and Beauty [SectionUrl] => fashion-and-beauty [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2025/04/16/2_2025-04-16_09-55-31600_thumbnail.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 349726 [Title] => New law to trigger development of tropical fabrics sector [Summary] => It is but a matter of time before a Philippine tropical fabrics (PTF) industry will evolve.

This optimistic projection is borne by a new law, Republic Act 9242, otherwise known as "An act prescribing the use of Philippine tropical fabrics for uniform of public officials and employees and for other purposes."

Philippine tropical fabrics, as defined, are those containing fibers from plants and animals grown, spun, and woven I the country. It includes fibers of abaca, pineapple, and banana.
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Like the fiber of abaca, those of pineapple and banana are good materials in making Philippine tropical fabric (PTF).

Actually, the fibers of the by-products of these three crops can be extracted, degummed, spun, and woven as inputs to the textile industry to create indigenous fabrics, pointed out the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Textile Research Institute (DOST-PTRI).
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Manila Fashion Week 2025 champions Filipino fabrics in partnership with DOST-PTRI
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With the rebranding, fashion enthusiasts are naturally expecting things to be different with MNLFW.

[DatePublished] => 2025-10-12 12:41:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1805089 [AuthorName] => C. Mendez Legaspi [SectionName] => Fashion and Beauty [SectionUrl] => fashion-and-beauty [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2025/10/12/mnl-fashion-week-2024_2025-10-12_12-50-41988_thumbnail.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 2436467 [Title] => Carlos Yulo wears 'fabric of the future' by Avel Bacudio, DOST-PTRI [Summary] =>

Fashion designer Avel Bacudio collaborated with the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Textile Research Institute in a fundraising fashion show called “Gintong Sinag: Hinabi ng Lakas, Ginawa nang may Pagmamalaki.”

[DatePublished] => 2025-04-16 12:21:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1805089 [AuthorName] => C. Mendez Legaspi [SectionName] => Fashion and Beauty [SectionUrl] => fashion-and-beauty [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2025/04/16/2_2025-04-16_09-55-31600_thumbnail.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 349726 [Title] => New law to trigger development of tropical fabrics sector [Summary] => It is but a matter of time before a Philippine tropical fabrics (PTF) industry will evolve.

This optimistic projection is borne by a new law, Republic Act 9242, otherwise known as "An act prescribing the use of Philippine tropical fabrics for uniform of public officials and employees and for other purposes."

Philippine tropical fabrics, as defined, are those containing fibers from plants and animals grown, spun, and woven I the country. It includes fibers of abaca, pineapple, and banana.
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Like the fiber of abaca, those of pineapple and banana are good materials in making Philippine tropical fabric (PTF).

Actually, the fibers of the by-products of these three crops can be extracted, degummed, spun, and woven as inputs to the textile industry to create indigenous fabrics, pointed out the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Textile Research Institute (DOST-PTRI).
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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