Chelsea Manalo in her ‘Hiraya’ nationwide costume. Picture: Fb/Miss Universe
Chelsea Manalo, the Philippines’ consultant within the just lately concluded Miss Universe pageant, has been proclaimed as “Finest in Nationwide Costume” two weeks after the worldwide tilt concluded.
The worldwide pageant introduced that “La Bulakenya” topped the net ballot for nationwide costume on social media, displaying Manalo in her “Hiraya” ensemble created by Bulacan-based equipment and dressmaker Manny Halasan.
In an earlier social media submit, Manalo mentioned the costume is “a symbolism of the far and profound historical past and relationship between the Philippines and Mexico. It displays the shared deep devotion of each nations to faith. It depicts the colourful and historic introduction of Christianization and Islam within the Philippines.”
She added that “Hiraya” evokes hope or a want, and the costume channels her religion in God. “Regardless of all of the hardships, chaos, roadblocks and redirection that we undergo, imagine that there’s hope and Divine steerage from a Greater Being,” she mentioned.
The costume’s most important costume is made utilizing the “inaul’ conventional cloth in Mindanao, with “tongkaling” bells connected and making a sound with each step. It additionally employed “puni,” or ornamental coconut fronds in style in Bulacan.
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The connected overskirt options a picture of Our Woman of Good Voyage, dropped at the Philippines from Mexico. The headdress, in the meantime, incorporates a bejeweled Spanish galleon, representing the Manila-Acapulco galleon commerce centuries in the past. Halasan completed the look with matching followers.
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The nationwide costume and preliminary competitors present was held on Nov. 14 (Nov. 15 in Manila), two days earlier than the ultimate coronation present on the Enviornment CDMX in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico.
Manalo has now turn out to be the fourth Filipino girl to high the nationwide costume competitors within the Miss Universe pageant, following Charlene Gonzalez in 1994, Gazini Ganados in 2019 and her rapid predecessor Michelle Marquez Dee final 12 months.
The 2024 Miss Universe title went to Viktoria Kjær Theilvig, the primary winner from Denmark. Manalo completed within the Prime 30 and was proclaimed as Miss Universe Asia.
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