Technicolor holidays: The YS Christmas gift guide

MANILA, Philippines – A white Christmas can be cute, but in Manila, it’s all about color. We took inspiration from the colors of the rainbow for the Young STAR 2015 holiday gift guide.

Spending your holidays in the tropics isn’t all that bad. Just ignore the face-melting heat and it can actually be quite nice. We may not have the whitest Christmas, but at least we have all the other colors from our holidays that will make it to our Instagram feeds. Heading to the beach or hiking up a mountain? How about catching the sunset or spending a night under the stars? Whatever your plan is for this season, it sure is going to be a festive and colorful one.

 So for this year’s gift guide, we took inspiration from the sublime spectrum of the rainbow. While muted tones have been all the rage this year, we still can’t get enough of our vibrant ROYGBIV and our classic blacks, whites and browns. From shoes to sweaters, here are a few suggestions for your Christmas list. We don’t know about you, but we’re pretty glad that we were good this year.

Drop by these stores for your Christmas shopping fix: Sunnies Studios (sunniesstudios.com), Satchmi, 4/F SM Mega Fashion Hall; Halo + Halo (halohalostore.ph), Uniqlo (uniqlo.com/ph/shop); The Common Thread, 2/F Greenbelt 5, Makati City; H&M (hm.com); Neon Island (neonislandclothing.com); The Diff

(thediff.com.ph); The Lost Nomad (thelostnomad.com.ph); Common Room, 325 Dela Rosa St., Katipunan Ave., Quezon City; Renegade Folk (renegadefolk.com).

Photos by Maine Manalansan

Assisted by Tin Sartorio