Anthony Cruz Legarda

Fashion Designer + Textile Technologist

Anthony Cruz Legarda is a Filipino American fashion designer and textile technologist who incorporates authentic handwoven fabrics from the Philippines and Asia into distinctive American apparel as well as modernizes luxurious ethnic cloth for the eco-fashion world. He pursued a degree in Fashion Merchandising at the City College of San Francisco and furthered his education at the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, graduating in Fashion Design. Aside from becoming a featured artist at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, the Anchorage Museum in Alaska, and the Queens Museum of Art in New York City, Mr. Legarda is proud of his involvement with a Philippine based organization, Katutubong Filipino Foundation, whose mission is to revive Philippine folk arts and crafts.

Anthony Cruz Legarda’s most recent achievements include: (1) creating an eco-friendly clothing collection for the welcome reception and fashion show during San Francisco Week at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, (2) designing for Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the Science & Technology Ministers from Southeast Asian countries for the 8th Asean Science and Technology week in 2008, (3) and dressing the top eight finalists in 2007's Miss Earth beauty pageant, which promotes environmental awareness.

Curriculum Vitae

Fall 2005 - present

Pacific Fusion TV Season 2 Show #9

Fashion Segment : Anthony Cruz Legarda

San Francisco Bay Area and Hawaii

September 15, 2005

Asia Alive Program : Arkiteknik Book & DVD Launch and Fashion Show

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

April 1, 2005

Marin Cancer Project Fundraiser Fashion Show

Julia Morgan Ballroom, Merchant Exchange Building,

San Francisco

1998-2003

Multicultural Entry Grant

California Arts Council

October 21-22, 2000

Arkiteknik Fashion Theater Show

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

July 17, 1999

Various Aspects of Filipino Textile

Informal Fashion Show

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

March 25-31, 1999

Fusion Fashion

Cover of Asian Week Newspaper

August 24, 1995

Land of the Morning, Treasures of the Philippines

Fundraiser Fashion Show

San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum

September 17, 2010

Danzfabrique Theater Fashion Show during

New York Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2011

Philippine Center, 5th Avenue, New York

June 18, 2010

San Francisco Week

at the World Expo in Shanghai

Welcome Reception and Fashion Show

Atrium, Shanghai Center, China

July 15, 2009

UPAA-NY on 5th Avenue Fundraiser Fashion Show

Philippine Center, 5th Avenue, New York

July 7, 2008

8th ASEAN Science and Technology week

Designed for Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the Science & Technology Ministers from Southeast Asia

World Trade Center, Metro Manila, Philippines

November 11, 2007

Miss Earth Pageant 2007

Designed for the Top Eight Finalists

U.P. Film Theater, Metro Manila, Philippines

August 5, 2006

Philippine Centennial Celebration Gala Night

Anchorage Museum, Alaska

May 13, 2006

2006 Estilo Filipiniana Fashion Show

Queens Museum of Art, New York

October 27, 2005

Celebration of Filipino Culture and Traditions hosted by Mayor Gavin Newsom

City Hall Rotunda, San Francisco