Patrick James Almera and his Arco bag (Photo from Istituto Marangoni)
Filipino fashion designer Patrick James Almera is hailed as champion at the premier international fashion and design school Istituto Marangoni’s bag design contest with his Arco bag creation.
Dubbed as “Design Your Bag,” the contest was launched last March 2021 in partnership with Up To You Anthology (UTY), an Italian artisanal bag brand. For the competition, Istituto Marangoni tasked its alumni to “design their dream bag, with no limits to their creativity.”
“Both Istituto Marangoni and UTY passionately believe in investing in young talent,” the world-renowned school says. “The purpose of the ‘Design Your Bag’ project was to give them an opportunity to express their creativity and bring their ideas to the market.”