Pinay second-placer in 2010 Supermodel search
Posted by Lucky on Jan 21, 2010
Another Filipina finished among the finalists in the prestigious Supermodel search.
Charlene Louise “Chat” Alagon Almarvez, who’s turning 17 on Jan. 25, placed first runner-up in the 2010 Supermodel of the World search held in Sao Paulo Brazil over the weekend, and got a US$150,000 modeling contract from Ford Models NYC.
Noted Funfare’s “beauty experts” Joey Cezeare, Gery Yumping, Francis Calubaquib and Feliex Manuel (now working as a nurse in New York), Chat is the third Filipina to land in the Top 5, following Melanie Marquez (also first runner-up) in 1986 and Charo Ronquillo (second runner-up) in 2006.
“Chat is statuesque and stunning at 5’9”,” added Felix. “She’s a Business Administration freshman at the De La Salle College of Saint Benilde. She was discovered during a Santacruzan in Laguna. With just a couple of months experience in modeling, she tried her luck and won the Supermodel Philippines search during the Philippine Fashion Week in October last year.”
This year’s Supermodel winner is Karlina of Latvia (Baltics). The runners-up in the following order are Charlene (Philippines), Isabelle (Sweden), Olivia (USA), Maryna (Belarus), Grace (Australia) and Bruna (Brazil).
“They will be featured in the New York Fashion Week Fall 2010 next month,” said Felix. “Ford Models Supermodel of the World is the largest and most prestigious international modeling competition. Established by Eileen Ford in 1980, Supermodel of the World held its first event at the Sporting Club in Monaco.”
The song tells a poignant story
In Northern Ireland, the song Mrs. Robinson (from the 1967 Mike Nichols movie The Graduate) got played on the radio over and over again when a middle-aged government official was exposed to be the lover of a 19-year-old boy in her ward.
In the Philippines, since the arrest of Jason Aguilar Ivler, called “the road-rage killer,” a few days ago after a two-month manhunt, the song Anak is being played and replayed on the radio, all too suddenly taking on a touching meaning in the context of Ivler’s mother Marlene Aguilar-Pollard’s unflinching pronouncement that she would love her son just as much notwithstanding the many names (“monster,” etc.) he’s being called.
source: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=542462&publicationSubCategoryId=70
