User:Ulysses King

Uly is Ulysses S. King Jr. in real life and was born on September 13, 1972 is a fashion designer in Manila, Philippines.

He is a well-travelled man spanning from Asia-Pacific to Continental Europe where he was exposed to varied fashion and styles across cultures and geographic locations, since he is certified public accountant (CPA) apart from his association to the fashion world.

His signature style has an old world luxe feel translated into a more edgy, carefully engineered, and comfortably fit with sharp geometric details on formal wear. While his archetypical innovation, ultra-modern, sporty and playful colours reflect on Ulysses King’s casual and street designs. It is for the people who love details, are elegant, confident, metropolitan and desirable. He is determined to bring his designs to a broader market through a ready-to-wear line as people become more educated in fashion and style.

He first joined Philippine Fashion Week in 2010 via his collection titled ‘Cross Border’ on October 27, 7pm at MOA main atrium during the Philippine Fashion Week.

Touted as one of the ‘designers-to-watch’ in this generation; his odyssey through his past Philippine Fashion Week collections has seen stunning and awe-inspiring transition from his impressions of the hard-edged Vatican Guard in his first collection of black and medici blue, to the nomadic Cross-Border for Summer 2011 comprised of beige and Nile green pieces, and his modern take of the male vanity of the seventies in his ‘Contempo 70s’ collection for Holiday 2011 with rusty oranges and dark blues.

Ulysses’ brave experimentation with colours, choice of materials, meticulous detailing and construction earns him bigger following as proven by the successful launch of his Narcosis collection, a sports-based casual wear. His menswear collection titled ‘Rocks & Soil’ was a crowd’s favourite and recognized as one of the top designs by various fashion bloggers and reviewers. It’s in the same collection where he designed men’s leather bags, which are now available at OUR TRIBE while  Uly’s sportswear designs will be out in all SM Branches under the label Ulysses King for  Bo’ Athletics.

Some of the celebrities who walked on the runway for his collections include Markki Stroem, Ivan Dorshner, Troy Montero, and Enrique Gil. His designs were also featured on magazines and shows ldonned by Jake Cuenca, Aubrey Miles, Lucy Torres, Carmina Villaroel, Rachell Ann Go, Sam Milby, John Spainhour, Paolo Avelino, and Vina Morales.

He was a former member of the Fashion Designers Alliance-Manila (FaDAL), Uly is an Ateneo Masters degree holder, a fashion brand consultant and the founder and chief designer of VATICAN Fashion Museum (founded in January 2008), a designer shop at The Podium.