MEGA Fashion Awards 2024 honors the industry veterans who have made it their life’s work to know exactly how to dress a fashion-forward celebrity or model
When your favorite style icons get dressed up for an event, the red carpet, or for a front row seat at fashion week, a lot of thought and work goes into assembling the ideal wardrobe fit for the occasion. In order to execute these ensembles, celebrities not only lean into their own sense of personal style and preferred aesthetics, but seek the help of some of the most notable and lauded stylists around. Below, MEGA Fashion Awards 2024 nominees for Best of the Year Stylist.
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Eldzs Mejia
The stars and celebrities that Eldzs Mejia dresses do not just pluck an off-the-rack piece and call it a day. On the contrary, he’s responsible for the best red carpet fashion moments and turning celebrities or models into seasoned sartorial vets. He not only has years of invaluable industry experience, but a natural eye for both effortlessly cool outfits and curating a enviable couture wardrobe—whichever the assignment calls for. Mejia is fast becoming a modern stylist for the history books.
His work with MEGA is his pièce de résistance: Heart Evangelista’s look for MEGA’s February 2024 cover. He also styled Liza Soberano’s MEGA June 2024 cover along with Kat Cruz-Villanueva.
Ton Lao
For the celebs who love a touch of glamor interpreted in a modern lens, by use of clean-cut tailoring, Ton Lao is the go-to stylist. His portfolio include veteran actors Sam Milby and Piolo Pascual. He believes that, when it comes to the red carpet or a shoot, there’s not much a bold power suit can’t solve. There’s a sense of maturity across his styling work, even when he primarily dresses men, they’re not completely sans a touch of playfulness. This can be seen in the likes of his younger clientele like Kelvin Miranda and Andres Muhlach who have a younger perspective when it comes to sartorial preferences.
Ton Lao styled Piolo Pascual for the MEGA Entertainment Pamilya Sagrado stories.
Melville Sy
Worrying about an outfit may seem like a comical problem, but for Melville Sy of Studio 24C, the stakes are high. Putting Marian Rivera, Alden Richards, and Janine Gutierrez in the sartorial spotlight, Sy has worked wonders with his clients, earning them a covetable fashion status. Beyond the carpet, he styles them in the chicest most elevated of fits, knowing how to dress a woman in truly sophisticated and timeless ways.
Melville Sy is the man behind Kyline Alcantara, Marian Rivera, and Alden Richards‘ ensembles during the GMA Gala 2024. He also styled Dingdong Dantes for MEGA Man’s November 2022 cover story and Alden Richards for MEGA Man’s July 2022 cover, with assistance from other stylists from Studio 24C.
Cath Sobrevega
With a repertoire of female muses such as Julia Barretto, Ysabel Ortega, and Andrea Brillantes, Cath Sobrevaga has become a household name for the celebrity feminine aesthetic. She knows how to curate an elegant yet playful wardrobe for the young woman. Her secret: toeing the line between youthful yet elegant and are in-trend. For her clientele, Sobrevega is the master curator of soft and sophisticated, with a playful and sensual edge.
Cath Sobrevega’s artistic touches can be found in MEGA Active’s July 2023 cover featuring Julia Barretto, MEGA Entertainment’s March 2023 cover story starring Jane De Leon and Janella Salvador
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Myrrh Lao To
Celebrities and models depend on the choices of the stylists—the middlemen who intersect the high-stakes industries of fame and fashion. Among the most lauded: Myrrh Lao To. Fantastical wings, flower embellishments, leather and lace, sequins and feathers, you name it and this stylist has utilized them to help his clients make bold statements. Striking textures, power dresses, accents, and form-hugging looks never go out of style in Myrr Lao To’s world. For this stylist, it’s all about finding the silhouettes that suit his wearer, and understanding the body shape to find the perfect fit.
He styled KZ Tandingan for the MEGA Entertainment’s October 2023 issue, Queens Catriona Gray and Nicole Cordoves for a retro glam shoot with photographer BJ Pascual, Julia Montes’s MEGA Entertainment cover in November 2021, MEGAStyle’s cover starring Ian Pangilinan in November 2021
Stylized Studio
By taking a look at Stylized Studio’s portfolio, you just know that founder and creative director Liz Uy’s strengths are sophisticated but contemporary looks, and creating a effortlessly cool and chic wardrobes. From Anne Curtis’s real-life Barbie ensembles, to Michelle Dee’s sultry tulle gown, and Sarah Geronimo’s fun and feminine looks with a blend of retro, Stylized Studio not only plays with her clients’ personal styles but also exercises her creative vision and freedom in dressing them.
Stylized curated Michelle Dee’s look for the GMA Gala 2024, Anne Curtis’s ensemble for MEGA Active’s February feature,
Perry Tabora
Perry Tabora is a name that has been dressing some big Philippine entertainment names to much success including Liza Soberano, Pia Wurtzbach, Chie Filomeno, R’Bonney Gabriel, and Chelsea Manalo. From streetwear to red carpet looks—his approach to fashion delicately totes the line between the timeless and the statement-making. We see plenty of powerful, elegantly-fitted gowns off-the-runway looks in Tabora’s work. Guided by a more maximalist approach in both casual and formal occasions, his muses are nary seen in a plain or basic ensemble.
Tabora styled Kylie Verzosa for a feature with Hannah Arnold and Evlin Khalifa last February 2023, all of Pia Wurtzbach’s looks at her Cannes film festival appearance last May, and Miss Universe 2022 R’Bonney Gabriel’s fits for the Miss Universe Philippines finals.
