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María Clara de los Santos is a fictional character in José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tángere (1887). The beautiful María Clara is the childhood sweetheart and fiancée of the protagonist, Crisóstomo Ibarra , who returns to his Filipino hometown of San Diego to marry her.
Born as Leonor Bauzon Rivera, a native of Camiling, Tarlac, was the daughter of Antonio Rivera and Silvestra Bauzon. [1] Her father (whom Rizal calls "Uncle Antonio" in his letters) is a cousin of Rizal's father, Francisco Mercado. [5]
Jose "Pitoy" Reyes Moreno Jr. (25 February 1925 [1] – 15 January 2018) [2] was a Filipino fashion designer and one of the earliest advocates of the Maria Clara gown. He is much regarded by the Asian fashion field as the Fashion Czar of Asia. He established the spotlight on Filipino fashion in the world artistic fashion scene during the 1960s ...
The María Clara gown, historically known as the traje de mestiza during the Spanish colonial era, [1] [2] is a type of traditional dress worn by women in the Philippines. It is an aristocratic version of the baro't saya .
A Filipina Chinese maiden wearing the Maria Clara gown called Traje de Mestiza, dated November 4, 1913. Total population Ethnic or pure Chinese : 1.35 million (as of 2013 [update] , according to the Senate ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
In 1947, Callas met Giovanni Battista Meneghini (Alessandro Bressanello), a wealthy Italian industrialist, when she was 23 and he was 51. He soon became her manager, lover and, eventually, husband.
Maria Clara at Ibarra (transl. Maria Clara and Ibarra) is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on the novels Noli Me Tángere and El Filibusterismo by José Rizal. Directed by Zig Dulay, it stars Barbie Forteza, Julie Anne San Jose and Dennis Trillo.
The tattooed corpse of a woman was found bizarrely stuffed in a refrigerator dumped in some New Jersey woods — and cops say they need the public’s help identifying her.