“After Ashton, my DOM Pinoy date never returned my phone calls, text messages and emails after our romantic Eyeball – Ang labo mo, Ashton! Sorry ka na lang…It’s not my loose, it’s your lost!!! – my boss set me up in a blind date. This time with a foreigner – yes. White leghorn na itu – Dizzizit!!!!

Kevin Murphy has carved a name for himself as one of Dubai’s most electrifying performers. He also happens to be one of the very few Filipinos with songs that ranked in the iTunes top 10, with “Fabric,” a collaboration with UAE-based EDM superstars Hollaphonics peaking at no. 4 in 2014.

For the last 35 years since Filipino designer Josie Cruz Natori founded the lingerie company that bears her name, she’s been reaching for natori, which also the Japanese word for “highest form of art.”