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PREPARE for two Saturdays of dazzling runway events, entertainment, and fashion expo in August 2022, when Asia Pacific Fashion Week (APFW) visits two legendary cities: Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

APFW is a global platform for fast-rising designers who are showcasing their cultural identity and unique voice in fashion. The purpose of APFW is to place these designers in the global market as a way to celebrate ethnic variety of the Asia-Pacific realm through fashion.

However, APFW is more than just a slew of international runway shows. Textiles, accessories, and artistic objects are also on display.

APFW chose Los Angeles as its debut location due to the city's growing importance in the global fashion industry, with a regular stream of big-name designers establishing roots in the city. As

A ‘CAN’T MISS’ EVENT. Asia Pacific Fashion Week kicks off August 6 at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Photo courtesy of Jason Chang/Wiki photo

Following its debut in Los Angeles, APFW will move to Las Vegas on August 13, 2022 at the Decades Event Center. Photo courtesy of Decades Event Center a result, many fashion experts think that L.A. is the place to be. After London, Milan, Paris, and New York, Los Angeles is now the world's “fifth fashion capital.”

In its first year, APFW aims to raise public awareness about sustainability issues while focusing on “green fashion.”

A ‘can’t miss’ event

On August 6, Saturday, at 4 p.m., the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, a historic landmark on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the heart of Los Angeles, will host APFW's debut event, a “can'tmiss” fashion presentation featuring three international designers.

The event will also feature a trade exhibit curated by the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions, the export promotion arm of the Philippines' Department of Trade and Industry.

Following its debut in Los Angeles, APFW will move to Las Vegas on Saturday, August 13, at 4 p.m., and will showcase more fashion-forward styles from the same international designers in Decades Event Center, located in Vegas Pointe Plaza, Unit 168, 9175 S Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas.

InterEdx, a business that provides educational and themed

NEO-ETHNIC FASHION. Fast-rising designer from Milan, Lionell Christian Lanuzo, says APFW is the perfect occasion to show his fashion collection to the world.Photo courtesy of Sujata Photography ECO FASHION. MYET by Mayeth Codoy creates couture-worthy dresses made from the natural leaf fibers of abaca and banana tree. Photo courtesy of MYET

events, is in charge of the Las Vegas event.

The latest stylish designs for summer, evening, and red-carpet occasions will be showcased at these two events, which will, of course, be the main attraction of APFW.

According to Roger Oriel, the CEO of One Global Management, the event’s organizer, APFW “promises to be among the highlights of the fashion season in the West Coast for many.”

The designers

Lionell Christian Lanuzo, a young designer from Milan set to unveil his 2023 collection in APFW, said that “APFW is the perfect occasion to show our collections to the audience that comes from all over the world.”

MYET by Mayeth Codoy,

APFW is more than just a slew of international runway shows. Textiles, accessories, and artistic objects are also on display. Photo from Instagram/@CITEM NEVER TOO LATE. At age 50, Genette Mujar decided to pursue her dream, and established her own fashion label, Gnetz Designs. Photo courtesy of Gnetz Designs

Norway's fast-rising fashion house, will also show its latest collections during APFW. The designer recently debuted her collection at Paris Fashion Week, which included couture-worthy ensembles created from the natural leaf fibers of the abaca and banana trees.

Genette Mujar, a fast-rising fashion designer from Vancouver who won the “Outstanding Women of Vancouver 2021” award, is another designer to be showcased at APFW. She decided to pursue her ambition at the age of 50 and founded Gnetz Designs, a thriving fashion line. Her life story has gone viral, proving that dedication pays off no matter how old we are.

Event partners

This inaugural edition of APFW is presented by the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles, DTI Los Angeles office, Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM) and The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

The Los Angeles Event of APFW enjoys the support of Asian Journal Publications, Inc. Trending Beverages Inc., Napa Valley Distribution Inc., Montemaria Cellars, House of Pacquiao Wine, Individual Health Care, Lombard by the Bay, MTS Law Firm, Premier Asia Pacific Real Estate & Development, and Tina Modeling.

The Las Vegas event is coproduced by InterEdx, a dba of Dynasty Exchange Ltd. LLC., headed by Dr. Lee Dedicatoria, in cooperation with Asia on Earth, Dynasty Ventures, Club Paradisia,

PhiliP S. Chua, MD, FaCS, FPCS

FROM the Associated Press on Wednesday, March 2: “TAMPA, FL – A visibly annoyed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis admonished a group of high school students for wearing face masks at an indoor news conference Wednesday, saying it was time to stop what he called ‘this COVID theater.’ The Republican governor approached the students and asked them to remove their masks as they waited for him at the press event at the University of South Florida in Tampa. The college is located in an area where the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends indoor masking due to high COVID-19 risk.”

Obviously wanting to tell the world that “he was” the greatest state governor who was ahead in the country in “defeating” COVID-19, Governor DeSantis acted like a dictator, berating the students with him on the stage to remove their masks while some towns in Florida still had a high level of COVID-19 cases and the “CDC still recommended indoor masking due to high COVID-19 risk.”

He had no right to do that, especially in an angry manner devoid of respect, more so because of the risk, which the CDC recognized. Those students had the right to wear a cap, a gown, a mask as they so desired. This is a free country. If DeSantis had a mask mandate to reduce COVID-19 transmission at that time and the students refused to do so, he would have that right to demand them to wear masks, but not the opposite situation since that area and the nation as a whole still had a significant number of cases and number of deaths, albeit lesser than a week ago.

This is an example of a medically ignorant, misinformed leader just like many other politicians trying to be politically correct. They are one of the reasons why we have almost a million COVID-19 deaths in the United States.

“The Florida Health Department plans to recommend against COVID-19 vaccination in healthy children, directly contradicting CDC guidelines,” according to the Tampa Bay Times. This is one of the many confusing opposing views among our leaders that risk people’s lives, the very reason a timely national mandate on PPE and vaccination for all without medical contraindication is so essential during a pandemic, and not leaving the management to the various states, whose 50 governors have 51 different ideas, resulting in almost a million deaths in the United States, the worst compared to all other countries.

Kennedy against vaccines

The other reason is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is insanely against the COVID-19 vaccines, besides all other vaccines in the past. He must be ignorant how the world has practically eradicated killer Smallpox with Jenner’s (1796) “inoculation vaccine,” and how Polio has been severely reduced with the Salk (1955) and Sabin (1960) vaccines. Not to mention all the pre-school vaccine requirements the whole world is using to protect all our children and the seasonal flu vaccines saving millions in the U.S. alone every year. And the most current are the COVID-19 vaccines which have so far saved billions of people around the world. (The WHO recommends the booster shot for more vulnerable adults with health issues for added protection.)

Sadly, even doctors…

Unfortunately, even some people of science, a few physicians and nurses are antivaxx, like “Simone Gold, founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, an activist group known for spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories about the pandemic and Covid vaccines, who has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a fine of $100,000.”

COVID-19: Brain fog?

People who have been infected and developed postacute COVID-19 syndrome, termed Long COVID-19 (40 percent incidence), could have lingering neurological effects like brain fog, fatigue, breathing difficulties, visual disturbances, cognitive impairment, anxiety, and a problem with memory. These could last for up to 6 months for 37 percent of people. Mild-to-moderate COVID-19 usually gets better within 1-2 weeks.

Studies have so far explained that the reduced oxygen supply to the cells of the nervous system can “silence” the cells. These “silent neurons” may be responsible for some Long COVID symptoms and increasing their blood flow to increase their oxygen and micronutrients supply using neuromodulation techniques can reactivate silenced cells of the nervous system,” said the Journal on Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.

“Researchers at the SAVIRCenter in Magdeburg, Germany, found that noninvasive neuromodulation using NIBS improved visual field loss in under 4 days and noted improved blood vessel dilatation in peripheral arteries and veins (113 to 300 percent) after NIBS treatment. Both vision and cognitive problems have improved after treatment,” the research also stated.

Indoor air quality

A research team at the University of Oregon found that air filtration, and good humidity levels of an indoor room can reduce how easily a virus spreads. Dryness enables the virus (much like dust) to float and fly around easier with airflow and cause infection. Outdoors, the wind dissipates the virus, the reason why outdoor dining, for example, is safer than eating inside restaurants.

One thing this pandemic also taught us is that “most public buildings have poor air quality inside them, which is conducive to increasing risk of pollution, respiratory illnesses, and during a pandemic like COVID-19, to increased risk of transmission. The recommendation is to regularly monitor the air quality inside these buildings and be publicly graded. Large apartment buildings, children’s facilities, schools, commercial buildings, and stores are advised to have MERV 13 filtration, and every classroom and childcare facility in the United States should either

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