Binibining Pilipinas: Beauty Ever After. Image: INQUIRER.net/Armin P.
Adina The Binibining Pilipinas pageant is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and the longest-running national pageant in the country is chronicling its six decades through a coffee-table book titled “Beauty Ever After.” The monumental project was already teased to avid followers during the celebration of the 60th coronation night last month, and pageant afficionados have been eagerly waiting for the book to come out. The Binibining Pilipinas Charities Inc.
(BPCI) finally launched it on Thursday, Aug. 15, in Quezon City. A small reunion of the pageant’s queens throughout the decades witnessed the unveiling of the book, a collection of interviews with dozens of the most iconic titleholders from the Philippines, international winners and runners-up, and some surprise Bb.
Pilipinas alumnae many would have never thought came from the national pageant. Bb. Pilipinas queens gather for the launching of the 60th anniversary coffee-table book.
Image: INQUIRER.net/Armin P. Adina Among those who graced the occasion with her presence was Miss International 1979 Melanie Marquez, who told INQUIRER.
net that she was so excited when she learned there would be a book that got her to go in front of the camera lens once again after her retirement from modeling. “It’s been a long time. So yeah, I’m just grateful that I’m part of the book.
They just called me up. Basta naman nandito ako (as long as I am her.