From a team of 5 in 2006, the year we started, the company has grown to over 30. While drawing and redrawing the boundaries of our team's creativity and style sense, Ronald Enrico has been, over the years, renowned for delicate details, fabric manipulation, clean finish, and cuts and fit that flatters the female form. In June of 2012, Ronald Enrico opened shop in Metro Manila at this address: Unit
12C, Eastwood Park Residences, #17 Orchard Road, Eastwood City, Bgy. Bagumbayan, Quezon City. Tel. 02-7209211. Ronald Enrico's website and online bridal shop -- www.ronald-enrico.com -- will be up and running soon. A history
Ronald Villavelez was born in Cebu City where he studied civil engineering. Also born in Cebu, Enrico Lingaolingao took up biology. They both attended the University of San Carlos. While still at the university, Ronald worked for the local ready-to-wear line Jacques. He then went on to work for Cebuano designers Leonardo Igloria and Ditas Rodriguez. At the age of 19, he sent a tie-dyed jusi ball gown with a molded and handwoven rattan corset to a young designers competition in Paris. In 2003, Enrico took a runner-up prize at the Cebu Young Designers Competition. The collection featured hand-pleated capris, skirts and tops that mimicked the delicacy of Japanese origami. After a chance meeting on August 29, 1999, Enrico Lingaolingao and Ronald Villavelez became a designing team, forming the label Ronald Enrico. The partnership hit a major break when Ronald Enrico presented an ensemble at the 2004 Levi’s Denim Ball in Cebu City. An update of a 1940’s Dior look, the dress was made of stripped denim and caught the eye of society columnist Tessa Prieto Valdes, who would become a Ronald Enrico patron. Ronald Enrico Atelier launched in 2005, after Ronald Villavelez left his job as a copy editor. Enrico Lingaolingao, his designing partner, stood as a guiding force. The partnership quickly earned Ronald Enrico its first clients who sought couture dresses and wedding gowns. Apart from the original work space and shop in Ramos, Cebu, Ronald Enrico found another home in Cagayan de Oro City. A partnership
A published poet and mathematics whiz, Ronald Villavelez is influenced by writers and filmakers: Louise Glück, British Romantic poetry, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Wong Kar-wai, Stanley Kubrick, and Rebecca Miller. He admires the work of Issey Miyake, vintage Christian Dior, and Anne Demeulemeester. Enrico looks up to Alexander McQueen, Yohji Yamamoto, and the work of makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin. He provides a serene counterbalance to Ronald’s playful flights in design. An approach to design
Ronald Enrico finds in the female form a confluence of tradition and playfulness, a vibrant, witty approach to romanticism. Their vision takes root in Keats’s wild garden, summoning fragrant nymphs that seize and subdue wandering warriors. Each look reveals a great eye for detail. Gracefully molded bodices rise from a cascade of fabric cut in petals. Latticework patterns wreath the torso. Draping, handiwork, beading, ruching, laser-cut techniques, and pleating are employed to create meticulous and seamless pieces. Bridal gowns in Mikado silk, French laces, dupioni silk, gazar, organdy, and Duchess satins are embellished with Swarovski, handmade appliqué, and cutouts. Short dresses surprise with uni-sleeves, armor-like shapes molded with floral motifs and soft, swirling beadwork. Ronald Enrico, Bridal
Ronald Enrico envisions contemporary bridal wear for destination weddings around the Philippine archipelago. The Filipino bride across continents can wear original bridal couture by the Cebuano designing tandem. International orders and shipment are available to clients abroad who seek handcrafted wedding gowns made in the Cebuano design tradition. Ronald Enrico, Ready-to-Wear
Ronald Enrico have in mind the women who appreciate the surprising detail as much as classic elegance. She values the poetry of space, the purity of pristine form, lines, cuts, and elaborate structure.
