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Designer partners with Bagobo-Tagabawa to create colorful shoes

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<p>MANILA – Every pair of Zarah Juan shoes has a story to tell. </p><p>Juan has been collaborating with the Bagobo-Tagabawa community to come up with colorful mules, which were the most wanted items at the recently concluded Arte Fino fair. </p><p>She will open her very own shop at Amorsolo Street in Makati City starting on Wednesday, October 11. </p><p>According to Juan, the patterns in each of her shoes depict prayers and petitions from the Bagobo-Tagabawa community.</p><p>“When they want to pray or they want to say something, they usually bead it,” she explained.</p><p>“For those people who are supporting us and using our products… they are using a work of art. If you’d notice, there are no two designs that are alike,” she added. </p><p>“By using the products, they are actually becoming storytellers of who we are as Filipinos.”</p><p>Take a look at Juan’s colorful shoes in this video by Metro Magazine below:</p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/Metro.Magazine/videos/10155874386304047" data-width="auto"> </div>