When fashion designer Salvacion Lim "Slim" Higgins opened her first atelier in Manila in 1947, she ushered in both the golden age of Filipino couture and her own forty-plus year career. Her son Mark Lewis Higgins joins us to discuss her incredible life and legacy.

Recommended additional resources:

SLIM fashion school:

• www.slimfashion.com
• www.slimsonline.school

Video on SLIM's legacy

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgMwYXPaq2U

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