The new breed

MANILA, Philippines - Most people remember Carlos Concepcion as the sexy store boy at Viktor, helping them to try on a pair of custom jeans. But his batch mates at Parsons, where he’s just completed an associate degree in fashion design, think his talents lie way beyond the selling floor. “He could be a master tailor if he wanted to,” says Stacy Rodriguez, who often saw him in the sewing room, cutting and stitching every piece of his graduate collection shown here. It helped that he interned for months at Timo Weiland and Oumlil, a private label suiting company in New York.

 “But I actually don’t really like tailoring,” Carlos counters, with a boyish smile. Instead, he’s applied the know-how to his graduate collection of elevated casuals, like a snap-up baseball shirt, a French terry “bathrobe,” a vest and backpack in buttery cow leather, and the hot sell: cuffed joggers—with a seam formed on a pin-tuck pleat.

Fashion by Breeding Ground, Photos by Regine David, Styled by daniel naval, Modeled by Ryan James Smith, at Adam Models