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This is what survivors are made of grit, power, and passion. Here's how Iloilo-based Filipino designer Cyrix Muyco found healing and strength through fashion

- MARIAN SAN PEDRO

It was depression and anxiety that pushed designer Cyrix Muyco to pursue fashion. Creating new things became his coping mechanism. He has always been into arts, like his father, who serves as his inspiration. In high school, Muyco would thrift clothes and then reconstruct these for events. Despite his inclination in the arts, the designer pursued a background in business administration and marine engineering.

“If I want to continue this career, I’ll have to board the ship,” he expresses. “I don’t think I can do that because I have depression. Even now that my work is on land, I still get triggered. What more if I go onboard for ten months? So I told myself, why not finally pursue the fashion industry?”