Pinoy Buzz: Welcome Dinner

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">MANILA, Philippines - The world leaders gathered at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Welcome Dinner on Wednesday wearing Barong Tagalog made by Filipino fashion designer Paul Cabral.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Upuy9CmNv-Ff7ln5NaybeBzpBLRaCvocolesxzEFhjQ8K6dxIKef4ei4IOCQIkMWNQD6HUd-Xfitq3YFc59Edcl7IOAS8E5wUfGi1hEbgV5_NWl0Pn6N8fc7_Lb_39DPMar60klF3LXK/s1600/Trudeau-NIETO-OBAMA-APEC.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Trudeau, Nieto and Obama" border="0" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Upuy9CmNv-Ff7ln5NaybeBzpBLRaCvocolesxzEFhjQ8K6dxIKef4ei4IOCQIkMWNQD6HUd-Xfitq3YFc59Edcl7IOAS8E5wUfGi1hEbgV5_NWl0Pn6N8fc7_Lb_39DPMar60klF3LXK/s640/Trudeau-NIETO-OBAMA-APEC.jpg" title="Trudeau, Nieto and Obama" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto<br />and US President Barack Obama. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo Credit:  Reuters/Edgar Su</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Within APEC, it is customary for the host economy to provide Leaders with cultural attires to wear for the annual family photo. Just as when the Philippines first hosted APEC in 1996, the Economic Leaders this year were given barongs to wear during the photo session. Even the women wore variations of the embroidered formal shirt.<br /><br />“Our provision of formal wear for the world leaders is reflective of our renowned hospitality and conveys our people’s warm welcome,” Cabral said.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzDcCSqt6WHOtfcvXY1SI_nvQtbOAmy-mAB1Lhil31lmJ4zIe_XlVL5hxzsvFWO2DiQtyrNDexzG9mkpeYeRPwxwJF7EDg6fJJJPw6SpJpASZv1jTDF3fIYBCwU19GbuJkZks54nCVhtSc/s1600/Paul-Cabral-apec.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Paul Cabral dressed the 21 Economic Leaders." border="0" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzDcCSqt6WHOtfcvXY1SI_nvQtbOAmy-mAB1Lhil31lmJ4zIe_XlVL5hxzsvFWO2DiQtyrNDexzG9mkpeYeRPwxwJF7EDg6fJJJPw6SpJpASZv1jTDF3fIYBCwU19GbuJkZks54nCVhtSc/s640/Paul-Cabral-apec.jpg" title="Paul Cabral dressed the 21 Economic Leaders." width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul Cabral dressed the 21 Economic Leaders. Photo: apec2015.ph</td></tr></tbody></table>“As a designer,” he says, “there is no greater honor than seeing one’s creation being worn by the different heads of economies. As a Filipino, it gives you so much dignity and pride.”<br /><br />Check out some photos of world leaders wearing barong- who do you think gave justice to Cabral's work? (Photo credit: Edgar Su of Reuters).<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBuLkn4txgcfnElK5yDVryaG56O6g9uoMhrNNpkHwzWmlW6XqE1gdYdtrTD0bfDrxXl8AqV-Szd7tbSCTFAddrW0EhnY8FQpB0PlPCKtB1T43dqvOXhN5Qq6ZPJFdYPurGizkxOFujPDj9/s1600/APEC-Leaders-with-Spouses-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="APEC Leaders’ Family Photo with Spouses" border="0" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBuLkn4txgcfnElK5yDVryaG56O6g9uoMhrNNpkHwzWmlW6XqE1gdYdtrTD0bfDrxXl8AqV-Szd7tbSCTFAddrW0EhnY8FQpB0PlPCKtB1T43dqvOXhN5Qq6ZPJFdYPurGizkxOFujPDj9/s640/APEC-Leaders-with-Spouses-1.jpg" title="APEC Leaders’ Family Photo with Spouses" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">APEC Leaders’ Family Photo with Spouses. Photo: apec2015.ph</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZMeJJgT6IrrRt_NqOgAMoXSdWZvsEBwIJEaAH6EuPy8zF1Mf3op1bwinZ3Hc6587vLTCWGkUF_0SXipkIGUSTWm8gej-Dlf91cFwnXAEswWT-tjT_Sdvd0KWu65xAB8tGoCu_oTmwFECl/s1600/APEC-Leaders-with-Spouses-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="APEC Leaders’ Family Photo with Spouses." border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZMeJJgT6IrrRt_NqOgAMoXSdWZvsEBwIJEaAH6EuPy8zF1Mf3op1bwinZ3Hc6587vLTCWGkUF_0SXipkIGUSTWm8gej-Dlf91cFwnXAEswWT-tjT_Sdvd0KWu65xAB8tGoCu_oTmwFECl/s640/APEC-Leaders-with-Spouses-2.jpg" title="APEC Leaders’ Family Photo with Spouses." width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">APEC Leaders’ Family Photo with Spouses. Photo: apec2015.ph</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_RGC0cJkh2RVOxF4jmnYgm82GlZvKA0nc_-hNLNS4wlHTnpFTuty32QheLfOwa9VjTm2LN-_3RfbgmQaZ1ko_d3ZIFn9C66WVl3h2FLu2pM3343dK0f-MN74kSVTwpKDDjZShU_rnLBgB/s1600/apecbarong-Trudeau-NIETO.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto" border="0" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_RGC0cJkh2RVOxF4jmnYgm82GlZvKA0nc_-hNLNS4wlHTnpFTuty32QheLfOwa9VjTm2LN-_3RfbgmQaZ1ko_d3ZIFn9C66WVl3h2FLu2pM3343dK0f-MN74kSVTwpKDDjZShU_rnLBgB/s640/apecbarong-Trudeau-NIETO.jpg" title="Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdgU4lS8mjPn-Tl0qnPqtBAi3uGVoiP9tYFlLO_tW9uSV2ncqY4w6YhXlsFv2MhyphenhyphenTFzAEMjgyZV5X1EkWxsINOFNoc6O7kwoG7xPE7vIzqkb5mEYbKvujCrLmbXug43VTLl7YZotQyFPI/s1600/apecbarong-sOBAMA-Trudeau.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="US President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau" border="0" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdgU4lS8mjPn-Tl0qnPqtBAi3uGVoiP9tYFlLO_tW9uSV2ncqY4w6YhXlsFv2MhyphenhyphenTFzAEMjgyZV5X1EkWxsINOFNoc6O7kwoG7xPE7vIzqkb5mEYbKvujCrLmbXug43VTLl7YZotQyFPI/s640/apecbarong-sOBAMA-Trudeau.jpg" title="US President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">US President Barack Obama and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgpZodOtlj-NaLHx4x2K-UYdcHHYa69be7ML-Lpknyfk4sNeQWtDSG9CoLi7eDwPscxMz4_CF3Jgy7ePOOodcY7OQG6-loZ71wgdXNXormJZpbN5O6rpJjA_9SMeXPfPambRr2vDCFUKwI/s1600/apecbarong-xi-jinping-medvedev.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev." border="0" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgpZodOtlj-NaLHx4x2K-UYdcHHYa69be7ML-Lpknyfk4sNeQWtDSG9CoLi7eDwPscxMz4_CF3Jgy7ePOOodcY7OQG6-loZ71wgdXNXormJZpbN5O6rpJjA_9SMeXPfPambRr2vDCFUKwI/s640/apecbarong-xi-jinping-medvedev.jpg" title="Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev." width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRvyHDCQO8IZ77zNaeis_R0zr7WK7PdqPtmjUAjwc8U6Z2jyNDit_2-oajcXhknLyabGubLKVXJq_oLdLFxoVRPkYL12wfr55Tan1ZY0eXkgrQ14enWdMDIHkDr3w4CZB4fIKC1L25_iaN/s1600/colombia-apec.JPG" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and his wife Maria Clemencia Rodriguez Munera " border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRvyHDCQO8IZ77zNaeis_R0zr7WK7PdqPtmjUAjwc8U6Z2jyNDit_2-oajcXhknLyabGubLKVXJq_oLdLFxoVRPkYL12wfr55Tan1ZY0eXkgrQ14enWdMDIHkDr3w4CZB4fIKC1L25_iaN/s640/colombia-apec.JPG" title="Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and his wife Maria Clemencia Rodriguez Munera " width="492" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and his wife Maria Clemencia Rodriguez Munera</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaaoRHjGnQkDe2oapcj6NvJyWIXPNL1xjLwfJ-7IV0oHWE2AmdH3ZBEelM8PtE8ZRl-oWdPuIEMKbIkKeEj2XsqCYNhYv5iQ78FaTlhgnDYtsUHhTSAePfOryCy0kOctfIHMUYkshVNp-k/s1600/hongkong-chief-exec-apec.JPG" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Chief Executive of Hong Kong Leung Chun-ying and his wife Regina Tong Ching-yi " border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaaoRHjGnQkDe2oapcj6NvJyWIXPNL1xjLwfJ-7IV0oHWE2AmdH3ZBEelM8PtE8ZRl-oWdPuIEMKbIkKeEj2XsqCYNhYv5iQ78FaTlhgnDYtsUHhTSAePfOryCy0kOctfIHMUYkshVNp-k/s640/hongkong-chief-exec-apec.JPG" title="Chief Executive of Hong Kong Leung Chun-ying and his wife Regina Tong Ching-yi " width="436" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chief Executive of Hong Kong Leung Chun-ying and his wife Regina Tong Ching-yi</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzBrnGY8zSN-WgoMRgKxB94g7kWWItcIRjqP5393S9Y2zFi0Zn2LCzyK7-yvrg-JnidC_D4YaKHwqyUVl962pe4FoKkE7xDRF8VRSoO-AptIo3BAOuF3cYZS0kLjBHTuXhzDa7k9wrCloA/s1600/Japan-ABE.JPG" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wearing the traditional Philippine "barong", and wife Akie" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzBrnGY8zSN-WgoMRgKxB94g7kWWItcIRjqP5393S9Y2zFi0Zn2LCzyK7-yvrg-JnidC_D4YaKHwqyUVl962pe4FoKkE7xDRF8VRSoO-AptIo3BAOuF3cYZS0kLjBHTuXhzDa7k9wrCloA/s640/Japan-ABE.JPG" title="Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wearing the traditional Philippine "barong", and wife Akie" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wearing the traditional Philippine "barong", and wife Akie</td></tr></tbody></table></div>

IN PHOTOS: World leaders in 'Barong Tagalog' during APEC 2015 Welcome Dinner

MANILA, Philippines - The world leaders gathered at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Welcome...