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Known for its influencial history, great art and magnificent culture, the City of Santa Rosa has been named as the Cultural and Heritage Mecca. Its arts encompasses literature, visual arts and the performing arts, including music and dance. Its rich culture is mainly all about the distinctively human activities and values which show how profound Santa Rosa is.
Eve de Jesus : First lady of Fashion
(July 9, 1914 - May 10, 2005)
Everilda "Eve" Zavalla Perlas-de Jesus was said to be the rich, the famous, and the beautiful. During her time, she was one of the reigning fashion arbiters of the country, designing for debutantes, heiresses and brides, in a distinguished career spanning more than four decades. She placed the name of Santa Rosa in the map of the demanding field of dressmaking through her Eve's Dress Shoppe.
She was an easy choice for the 1st "GAWAD sa MANLILIKHA" recognition, in the BARAKA festival, because she was one of those who made name and difference in terms of creative livelihood.
She was a true daughter of Santa Rosa, eldest of the five children of Mariquita Zavalla y Almeda and Ricardo Perlas; married to Amado de Jesus and a mother to four children.
Interviewed a few years before her demise, she said "my life is centered now around the community and of course the church. I had that excitement during Valera's time, oh, it was real social and glamorous, and we are all exploding with creativity. That's all over now. But I never look back and linger. I look ahead. This is what living is all about anyway."
Listen to these achievements:
- For then heir-apparent Prince Akihito's forthcoming wedding, a one-month show starng March 11, 1959, two wedding ensembles, the Maria Clara and the Filipino terno were displayed at the Tokyo Department Store Takeshimaya, along with other wedding gowns sent in from countries in the Orient and Europe. Eve's was the only one chosen to represent the Philippines.
- Wholesale supplier to Squires Bingham, Crispa, Aguinaldo's, Francis Dept. Store;
- She joined the 1st Karilagan Fashion Show in U.S.;
- She presented a one woman fashion show using local materials, aboard the S.S.S. Orzova sponsored by the Hotel Restaurant Association of the Phils. and attended by 1,000 tourists.
- A member of the Women's Fashion Group invited by the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia to put up a fashion show commemorating the Indonesian Kartini Day;
- Featured in the Tableau Magazine (Encyclopedia of Distinguished Personalities in the Philippines) and recognized as a fashion genius;
- Put up a series of Fashion shows for charitable organization (Philippine National Red Cross, Red Teacher, Jaycees and other Catholic schools), with proceeds given to charity;
- Export of baby dresses in Saudi Arabia
- Dely Magpayo with almost a hundred ternos/gowns made by Eve's did the honors of opening the exhibit of Eve's at the 1st BARAKA GAWAD sa MANLILIKHA in APRIL, 2002 at the Santa Rosa de Lima Parish Center.
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