"I have clients from the royal family who love exotic animals as their pets. One princess asked me to dress up her leopard pet in animal print, another one asked me to make a cat suit for her python, and yet another client inquired if I could do crystallized clothes for a chimpanzee," he reveals. "I don’t know if I’ll still be "normal" after that," says Michael Cinco, Filipino fashion designer based in Dubai.
US television's Tyra Banks has commissioned him a couple of times on the popular America’s Next Top Model last year—as guest designer in Cycle 16 early in the year, and as finale designer in the last quarter’s Cycle 17 ANTM All-Stars.
Cinco has managed to move into the international stage after about a decade in the the Arab world. Province born Michael was a fine arts scholar of the University of the Philippines in the capital Manila.
Credits: 5 Photographs above by by Nigel Barker