Despite his quick rise to commercial fame on the heels of his muscle dress’ debut in Lady Gaga’s “Marry the Night” album cover ensemble, the young avant-garde Filipino designer Leeroy New is, well, not new to spotlight.

It might be difficult to emerge from the shadow of a successful artist. Not so for Helena Alegre, wife and muse of renowned painter Hermes Alegre, whose brilliance and dedication to jewelry design has allowed her to shine in her own right.

Name a fashion designer who could talk to you about nuclear medicine, comic books, and haute couture in equal measure and gusto. This designer will likely be Yen Ab. It will not be far-wrong to call him a polymath, because everything that he does, he does astonishingly well.

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