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Tessa Prieto-Valdes
Maria Theresa Isabel "Tessa" Rufino Prieto-Valdes (born September 1963) is a Filipino interior designer, socialite, columnist, and television personality known for her flamboyant personal style in fashion and for her philanthropic work. Prieto-Valdes writes lifestyle and society Column (periodical), columns for the ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' and has co-founded the Red Charity Gala, an annual charity fashion gala in Metro Manila, Manila. She has also appeared as a media personality on reality television and in films. Early life Prieto-Valdes is the eldest daughter of Marixi Rufino-Prieto, a businesswoman who chaired the ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' and a member of the prominent Rufino family, and Alejandro "Alex" Prieto, a businessman. She had an older brother, Louie, who died in a motorcycle accident along South Luzon Expressway in 1994. Her sister, Alexandra "Sandy" Prieto-Romualdez, is the president and CEO of the Inquirer Group of Companies, while her brother Paolo is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximalism
In the arts, maximalism is an Aesthetics, aesthetic characterized by excess and abundance, serving as a reaction against minimalism. The philosophy can be summarized as "more is more", contrasting with the minimalist principle of "less is more". Literature The term ''maximalism'' is sometimes associated with Postmodern literature, postmodern novels, such as those by David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, where digression, reference, and elaboration of detail occupy a great fraction of the text. It can refer to anything seen as excessive, overtly complex and "showy", providing redundant overkill in features and attachments, grossness in quantity and quality, or the tendency to add and accumulate to excess. Novelist John Barth defines literary maximalism through the medieval Roman Catholic Church's opposition between "two...roads to grace": the ''via negativa'' of the monk's cell and the hermit's cave, and the ''via affirmativa'' of immersion in human affairs, of being in the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine Edition
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. With a population of over 110 million, it is the world's twelfth-most-populous country. The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the south. It shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Palau to the east and southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest. It has diverse ethnicities and a rich culture. Manila is the country's capital, and its most populated city is Quezon City. Both are within Metro Manila. Negritos, the archipelago's earliest inhabitants, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
