[photo credit: University of Southern California]
Pasadena’s USC Pacific Asia Museum will host “Threads of Identity: Telling Filipinx American Stories through Fashion” from 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 22.
Designers Marybelle Bustos and Puey Quiñones will discuss cultural preservation through fashion. Eleanor Lipat-Chesler of the Ube Arte collective will moderate.
The evening positions fashion as more than aesthetics. It frames design as resistance and identity.
Bustos brings her brand, Bárù Mu, to the runway. Quiñones will showcase both traditional and contemporary Filipino-inspired attire.
A fashion show follows the 6 p.m. conversation at 7:30 p.m. Ancestral Vision Movement, a Filipinx American dance company, will perform during the presentation.
The program explores how diasporic communities navigate belonging. It examines the tension between preserving ancestral traditions and forging new expressions of identity.
Refreshments and music close the night at 8 p.m.
The event, presented by USC Visions and Voices and organized by the museum, is free. For more information, visit https://calendar.usc.edu/event/threads-of-identity-telling-filipinx-american-stories-through-fashion.
