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the canary project With a debut album, two provocative new movies, and an engagement all happening at once, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safe to say that Carlie Canary is on a major winning streak.

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HILDA: THE FORGOTTEN 1950’S PIN-UP GIRL The phrase “pinup girl” often conjures up images of hourglass figures and vintage fashion. But how often are the pin-ups we see actually plus-size women? Not often enough.

HILDA: the forgotten 1950’s pin-up girl

LET THE GAMES CONTINUE... The phrase “pinup girl” often conjures up images of hourglass figures and vintage fashion. But how often are the pin-ups we see actually plus-size women? Not often enough.

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FALL IN From show-off sculptured shoulders to fabulous fur visions – this year’s New York Fashion Week FW 2013 had it all. With so many stand out looks for the season it’s going to be hard to choose which one to adopt as your own, so why not try them all on for size and see which style suits you?

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PERFECT STORM The impassioned and charismatic British actor Benedict Cumberbatch has emerged as a scintillating - and prolific - leading man. His astonishing focus and restless energy made Cumberbatch one of the most exciting actors to break through in years.

EDGE EDITOR IN CHIEF CREATIVE DIRECTOR MANAGING EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS

CHINKY TIPGOS MIGUEL MARI CARMELA A. LOPA RAYMOND ANG MARA COSON NICOLA M. SEBASTIAN

ASSISTANT EDITOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

EDITOR AT LARGE

MICHELLE V. AYUYAO DON JUACIAN

TEODORO LOCSIN, JR.

ART ART DIRECTOR SENIOR DESIGNER PHOTOGRAPHER AT LARGE PHOTOGRAPER ILLUSTRATOR CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

On the cover MODEL Carlie Canary PHOTO Eugene Maestrado MUA Mae Angelie Penserga STYLING Carlie Canary

ALCON CARL REAL CHINKY TIPGOS EUGENE MAESTRADO EUGENE MASTRADO SAI ZAMORA CLINTON PALANCA, JAMES GABRILLO, TRICKIE LOPA, L.A. CONSING LOPEZ, MANO LOTHO

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

ANDREA ANG, JO ANN BITAGCOL, PAM CORTES, PATTY EUSTAQUIO, JEFFREY FRANCISCO

PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ARTISTS

DANNA ALLEN, JAMES BAUTISTA, CHARLES BUENCONSEJO

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CERA PHIA MANEJA

THIS ISSUE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE HELP OF EUGENE MAESTRADO, MAE ANGELIE PENSERGA, DAISY ZAMORA, ALCON CARL REAL, CERA PHIA MANEJA, JOSHALLEY REGULAR, LOUISE DE LEON, KATHRYN CLEO UCHIDA, MOM, DAD, PINKY, WINKY, CLASSMATES, FRIENDS, SIR RIO VILLEGAS

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circumstances Welcome to the fourth issue of EDGE. Thank you for your continued patronage of this magazine. Without you readers, we wouldn’t be able to continue publishing this magazine. As all magazines go, it starts with a concept - a meeting of different minds to create a work of art that transcends time. We thought long and hard for something of that stature, but at the end of the day we felt compelled to go back to basics and stay true to what we really believed in. So we asked our friends to help us with the shoot and viola! Our cover model was born. Carlie Canary on her Canary Project. Quite snazzy don’t you think? Yes the cover photo is quite snazzy but do you even know the struggles of that shoot? It was quite the challenge. Our first obstacle was the weather. During the first hour of the shoot, we had fine weather- ample sunlight, relaxing breeze, all that jazz. When we finished doing Carlie’s makeup the weather turned for the worse. The wind got stronger and there was a slight drizzle. The shoot must go on since we

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BTS from the cover shoot. Daisy, Chinky and Carlie didn’t have any available day for all our talents. Despite the rain, strong winds, equipment casualties, just straight out fatigue...we did it. We had our cover, we had our magazine. Of course this magazine wouldn’t be possible without the help of our friends. The photographer for the cover shoot is our dear friend Eugene Maestrado. Despite the circumstances of our shoot, he truly captured the essence of Carlie. The fabulous MUA for this shoot is Mae Angelie Penserga. Her make-up skills are over the moon. She really enhanced Carlie’s already

prominent features and upped the ant. Of course I will never forget the people who also assisted in our shoot. Thank you for helping, assisting, bringing the bags, being our umbrella during the shoot, and just supporting and giving us the morale boost despite the unfavourable circumstances. Here’s a big thank you from the deepest reccesses of the team. Our dinner at KFC and those ridiculous selfies we took while we were at the mall will never be forgotten. Now that I’m done making this pretentious editor’s note. Let me write down what I truly feel these last few days of the semester. I know it’s insipidly sentimental, but leave me be. I’m having quite the melancholic streak. To my classmates, thank you for making this semester memorable. For all the moments we shared, I am truly grateful and over the moon. You are the best set of classmates I had the fortune to be with. So readers, have fun reading through our magazine! May you find inspiration and joy in reading through our articles. See you in the next issue!

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HILDA the forgotten 1950’s pin-up girl By MARGOT PEPPERS

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he phrase “pinup girl” often conjures up images of hourglass figures and vintage fashion. But how often are the pin-ups

we see actually plus-size women? Not often enough. That’s why we’re so excited that Hilda, originally drawn in the 1950s by illustrator Duane Bryers, resurfaced on the Internet this week. Duane Bryers first painted Hilda, a plus-sized redhead calendar pin-up girl, in the mid-Fifties, and she remained popular until the Eighties According to the blog Messy Nessy Chic, Hilda is a vintage icon who was “one of history’s longest running calendar queens” alongside Marilyn Monroe and others. Bryers told the Arizona Daily Star in 2010: ‘I got the idea for a plumpy gal pinup and thought I’d like to make it into a calendar series. But how was I going to sell a plump girl?’ He then brought the series to the U.S.’s top calendar maker at the time, Brown & Bigelow, who ‘reluctantly put it in the line and figured it would last a short time.’ In reality, while she may

have been less prominent because of her curvaceous figure, the Hilda series endured for more than three decades, and today there are numerous Tumblr, Facebook and Pinterest pages dedicated to the buxom redhead. ‘I had various models over the years, but some of my best Hilda paintings I’ve ever done were done without a model.’

A recently-unearthed set of images by the late artist, who passed away last year, have brought Hilda’s image to light once again.

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he Hunger Games films may have begun as Suzanne Collins’s hugely popular trilogy of books aimed at young adults, but with a new

director and a star who scored the best-actress statu- ette at this year’s Oscars, the second installment of this blockbuster franchise is all grown up. “One of the big overarching themes for all the books is this idea of the consequences of war, and one of the unfortunate consequences of war is post-traumatic stress,” explains Francis Lawrence, who directed The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, out this November. (His previous films include I Am Legend and Water for Elephants.) In the new movie, not only have young leads Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson aged nearly two years, but also their characters, Katniss and Peeta, have returned to their home district haunted by what they’ve seen and done. “That’s one of the first things you see in the movie,” the director adds. “They’re changed people because of having been in the Games.” The Games is the annual event that unites the 12 districts of the fictional nation of Panem. Twenty-four teens

are chosen to battle to the death using a variety of weapons in a gruesome display meant to cow the popu- lace. Only, when it became their turn to kill or be killed in the earlier film, Katniss and Peeta broke the rules—and for the first time there were two victors. This act of defi- ance sparked a rebellion in the districts, and in Catching Fire, Peeta and Katniss must struggle with their roles as unwilling icons—not to mention taking another round in the arena against other previous champions. Those new foes include Jena Malone, Amanda Plummer, Jeffrey Wright, Lynn Cohen, and a sensuous and tricky Sam Claflin. They expand an enviable en- semble that already featured Donald Sutherland as the nefarious president of Panem, Elizabeth Banks as Kat- niss and Peeta’s increasingly self-aware chaperone, and Liam Hemsworth as a young miner who competes with Peeta for the affections of our heroine. The director—no relation to his star—describes the group as “the sort of fantastic actors that you empathize with, that you feel a warmth for.” That is, until they start trying to kill one another. —CHRIS ROVZAR

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“He’s an immersive actor; he’s physical,” says Danny Boyle. “You have to keep feeding him, trying to keep him stimulated. The engine has to be stoked all the time.”

Benedict Cumberbatch as the new villain in JJ Abram’s Star Trek reboot

enedict Cumberbatch is talking Edwardian manners, the brutishness of croquet and a million other things that segue rapidly into each other while my brain struggles feebly to keep up. He is making me a cup of Earl Grey, and a single question – shall we share a teabag? – has triggered this rush of inspiration, from tea ceremonies to post-colonial theory. It’s fair to say that Cumberbatch is both a thinker and a talker. His features – the huge almond eyes, the sweeping Cupid’s bow, the acute tapering from cheekbones to chin – can, in repose, hint at something extra-terrestrial; lit with animation, however, they’re charmingly boyish. He’s soon to begin shooting a TV adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s First World War novel Parade’s End, hence the current obsession with Edwardian England – Cumberbatch prepares meticulously for each new role with a welter of study and likes to immerse himself in the relevant historical and cultural detail. So what, I wonder, did he do for his part in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, his latest film? Learn Russian? Write ciphers? His off-screen persona hasn’t always been so stylish: “I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front,

but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.” Martin Freeman, his Sherlock co-star, can take some of the credit. “There’s a man who knows his threads,” nods Cumberbatch, admiringly. “He’s a very natty dresser. He gets stuff made and is always coming in with new pairs of shoes so I’ve been watching his clobber…” So much so that his credit card was recently declined after a birthday spree at Selfridges. “That’s when I realised that I’m changing my habits!” Having Spielberg and Jackson already on his CV shouldn’t hurt his chances. Cumberbatch is keen to diversify and prove that he can do far more on screen than the rent-a-toff roles his aristocratic bearing and Harrow-educated vowels might suggest. And, as his kite-surfing holiday hints at, he’s not afraid of physical adventure. “I’d love to transform my body into some ridiculous war machine,” he says, with a twinkle. Don’t bet against this cerebral character actor reinventing himself as an action hero, given half the chance. “I want to have my Daniel Craig moment!” he laughs. “I want to run round a desert shooting guns at aliens and looking like I barely have to take a breath. I’d love to do all that shit!”

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project With a debut album, two provocative new movies, and an engagement all happening at once, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safe to say that Carlie Canary is on a major winning streak. Listen in as she chats about her love of performing, finding a soul mate, and why timing is they key to making a relationship work. PHOTOS EUGENE MAESTRADO

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t 1:45 a.m. on a Friday in January, dozens of stylish, attractive revelers began pouring into Manhattan nightclub No. 8 for the open-

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It’s important to figure out your own life before involving someone else.

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ing-night cast party for the latest Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Scarlett Johansson as the smoldering, sexually frustrated feline Maggie. The actress arrived in a black peplum top, tight black leggings, bright red lipstick, and perfect skin, bringing to mind Sandy after her transformation in Grease. Standing by the bar, she kissed her new boyfriend, 30-yearold French creative agency manager Romain Dauriac, whispering in his ear and throwing her head back laughing. Pretty soon, everyone — her two brothers; her sister-in-law; actor Benjamin Walker (who plays Maggie’s alcoholic, sexually repressed husband) and his wife, Mamie Gummer — caught her good vibe and spilled onto the dance floor. Johansson started boogying backward toward me, inching closer to a table covered with champagne flutes. I reached down to move the table, creating a pocket of space for Johansson, who safely lingered there until shimmying out of harm’s way. I figured I would spend the rest of my life wondering if she had been trying to include me. “Well, not if you were behind me,” she tells me a month later a Greenwich Village loft. “But we like to include everyone in a good party. That night was super-fun. I’ve never been the person who sits in the corner, orders bottle service, and judges everybody. The next day my boyfriend and I were saying, ‘We were the best dancers in the whole world last night!’” She clarifies both were “completely delusional” to think that way: “I’m sure we were absolutely, like, ridiculous together.” Besides making movies and records (her Tom Waits cover album features two duets with David Bowie), her other commitments include being the face of Dolce & Gabbana Beauty; a global ambassador for international relief agency Oxfam; and a political activist. Chris Evans, who plays Captain America, first met Johansson when they costarred in the 2004 teen heist movie The Perfect Score. “She is who she is, and she is unapologetic,” he says. “When you’re around her, you feel an honesty that brings out the honesty in you. She has an old soul. I’m a few years older than she is, but I still feel like her younger brother. To this day, she still seems a little more wordily and intelligent than most people in the room.” Evans says that if you were going on a caravan road trip, you would want Johansson in your car: “She’s very spontaneous, and she can make something fun out of nothing. Anything that seems interesting or adventurous, she’ll go for it — and her willingness breeds a kind of allegiance. Before you know it, you’re having a good time when you didn’t even know you could.” An example of her spontaneity, for which Evans apologizes to Johansson for revealing: While they were in Ohio filming The Avengers, they went to a bar. “We get a couple beers, and Scarlett says, ‘We should get onstage and sing a song!’ She walks up to the band. It was surreal. It was phenomenal. It was hysterical.”

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From show-off sculptured shoulders to fabulous fur visions – this year’s New York Fashion Week FW 2013 had it all. With so many stand out looks for the season it’s going to be hard to choose which one to adopt as your own, so why not try them all on for size and see which style suits you?

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ollaborations in fashion are nothing new, but the fact that fashion icon Oscar de la Renta had invited former Dior designer John Galliano for a residency in his studio leading up to New York Fashion Week Autumn 13 proved one of the hottest topics of the week. And this was before anyone saw the clothes. When the looks did materialise, many felt the hand of Galliano was evident in the silhouettes and the styling.

come autumn was answered in a colour palette of black, white, grey, cobalt and orange reds. The love affair with crafted furs and tailored leathers continues, as seen at Jason Wu and Michael Kors. Oversize coats dominated along with a new, architectural accent on the shoulder - round at Proenza Schouler and square at Calvin Klein. The accessories story was also sharpened, with buckled gladiator boots at Prabal Gurung and pointed stiletto pumps at Narciso Rodriguez.

Elsewhere on the runways, the question of what we would be wearing

Here are the top trends from New York Fall 13.

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