Lydia Querian

Lydia Querian is a Telly Award winning multi-faceted artist and producer in fashion, dance and music whose vision is to pursue deeper cultural work in the realm of entrepreneurship. She founded Divine Creative Studio with subsidiaries in the advertising, music and fashion promoting Filipino culture across the country. Born and raised in Metro Manila, Philippines, she migrated to California in 2010 where she saw different perspectives of the community between her homeland and the diasporic community. Her work is inspired by the intersectionality of cultural yearning amongst the community and the need for representation amongst Pilipinx and Indigenous peoples in the Philippines.

She’s toured nationally and internationally with respected artistic groups and was a featured artist at Smithsonian Folklife in 2017. She co-founded several organizations, chaired several others and produced many events that act as pillars in the Filipino diasporic community. She is the executive producer of Gongster’s Paradise, the ONLY Kulintang Festival in North America which has been long standing since 2017. Her fashion designs were recently featured at SS21 and SS22 New York Fashion Week: Indigenous is the future.

 

Lydia Querian is a multi-faceted artist. A fashion designer, dance and music practitioner whose vision is to pursue deeper cultural work in the realm of entrepreneurship. Born and raised in the Philippines, she lived in San Francisco for 10 years and is now based in Hawaii. She's done several performances, having toured nationally and internationally with Dancing Earth, Kularts, Parangal Dance Company, and Fusion Dance Project. Querian was a featured artist at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2017 and the Merrie Monarch Festival in 2016. Lydia completed Fashion Design and Fashion business certification from Parsons New School and as her work evolves.

 

She frequently immerses with indigenous communities in both Southern and Northern Philippines She co-founded several organizations, chaired several others, and produced several events that act as pillars in the Filipino community. She is the executive producer of Gongster's Paradise, the only Kulintang Festival in North America, which has been long-standing since 2017.
 

Her work was recently featured at SS21 and SS22 New York Fashion Week. 

 

Daily Malong and all her other work are on a mission to help empower Indigenous Filipino artists to continue their living traditions by extending appreciation in the diaspora. She believes that bringing indigenous practices to the future perpetuates time-tested traditions, helping the present and protecting the future. Each indigenous textile, music, and movement executed today helps navigate societal atrocities, prevent climate change, and restore a more sustainable environment.