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Travel helped shape young star's fashion sense

YOUNG ACTRESS Gwen Zamora says travel helped shape her fashion sense.

Gwen, or Gwenalle Tasha Mae Pallera Agnese, was born in Australia to a French father and a Filipino-Vietnamese mother. She moved to the Philippines when she was 6.

When she turned 14, the family left for Singapore and stayed there for a year. Then they lived in Thailand for two years.

Gwen went to Beijing to work as a teacher’s assistant/drama teacher for six months, before heading back to Australia. There she stayed for eight months.

She’s based in Manila now.

“When I was younger, my mom would send me to France every summer,” she told Living Stars during a visit to her Makati condo. “When I came home, I’d look totally different—from wearing baggy pants, for instance, I’d be in skinny jeans and ballerina shoes.”

She’s a “mood dresser,” Gwen confessed. “Sometimes I look super girly, but I can also dress up as a rocker or a hippie.”

Her cousin Anna, who helps shop for the actress, said Gwen prefers the “rugged look” most of the time: “When she was younger, she would braid rubber bands and use them as bracelets. She likes black shirts. At age 13, she cut her hair and dyed it black. These days, I can say I’m quite successful in infusing color into her.”

Gwen added: “In first year high school, I started shaving my legs and wearing short shorts. There was a time when I had ‘emo’ bangs—and saw the world through one eye. But I still had good grades and my teachers loved me.”

Clothes

I have so many shorts, but the tattered pink pair is what I wear again and again.

I’m into lacy tops, like the light-green piece from Top Shop. The fabric is see-through but it doesn’t look too revealing.

I like my MC Hammer pants, too, which I wear to tapings or out-of-town shows because they’re so comfy.

The leather jacket is from Zara—it’s so cool. I bought a lot of leather jackets in Thailand, but left most them in Australia.

I wore the fleece jacket in China because it gets really cold there. It’s thick but not bulky.

The pair of denim pants is one of the first editions from Cheap Mondays. It used to be super black, now it’s gray. I remember when I bought it: The shop was in the middle of nowhere in Paris and had fake rats dangling all over. Everyone said the best pants were sold there.

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!  I loved getting asked by the white kids if I could “dance like that.”  The answer was no, but I sho did try!  The only thing that could make my efforts complete…. were…those….pants!!!  How could I get those pants?!   I’d never seen anything more wonderful in my whole life.  I needed them.  I longed for them.   They weren’t in any of our stores at the time, so I thought only rich people wore them.  I was tormented by how their silky, baggy, shiny goodness could continue to dazzle and elude me at the same time.  Ahhh, Hammer Pants.  How I loved you… back then.