"The Bakunawa aims to transform the ancient Philippine myth of the Bakunawa to a shoe and tell a unique Philippine legend to its every audience through its design.
The Bakunawa is a dragon in Philippine mythology often represented as a gigantic sea serpent and was believed by the ancient Filipinos to be the cause of eclipses because it swallows the moon whole."
This design started or sparked my interest in shoe design. I conceptualized this design on the back seat of my father's car, while we were roaming around Metro Manila together with my mom. I was brainstorming on concepts for my would be entry on a local footwear design competition. Originally, the concept was really "The year of the dragon' since i conceptualized this around February (on the day or days before the Chinese new year) So you can actually say that I was effected by all the dragon things and stuff during that time (plus I was born during a year of the dragon- so yeah Dragons hold a special place in my heart haha)
However my best friend who's also a designer dished my "design inspiration" and suggested that I use the myth of the Bakunawa instead, since the competition's theme is 'Filipino Footwear for the World'. So yeah.. Then things went on from there, my design became a finalist in the competition and was prototyped. It was sent for an international competition in China, sadly though nobody from the Philippine team placed in the final 3 but I guess one good outcome of that was, the finalists were brought together by the organizers to form a design guild.
Today I am the acting secretary of the guild, we're still in the organizing process and stuff like that but we're slowly building the group. And little by little, we'll get there :)
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