Summer Wedding Lookbook
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SUMMERWEDDING LOOKBOOK
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“WELL, DID YOU WANT TO
BE A TEACHER?” WE ASKED
KNOWINGLY.
SHE SMILED.
“THAT WAS MY MOVE! I TOLD HIM
I WANTED TO BE A TEACHER
SO I COULD MEET UP WITH HIM.
BUT HE DIDN’T KNOW FOR SURE
SO, LITERALLY, AS SOON AS HE
ARRIVED, HE ASKED ME IF THIS
WAS A DATE. AND I SAID YES THIS
IS A DATE!”
FORTUNATELY FOR ART, THAT
WOULDN’T BE THE LAST YES
HE’D HEAR FROM PALOMA. SINCE
THEIR INITIAL DATE AT THE ICONIC
CHA CHA CHA RESTAURANT
IN SAN FRANCISCO, THE TWO
HAVE BEEN GLIDING AND TWO-
STEPPING INTO EACH OTHER’S
LIVES WITH SHARED PASSIONS
FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING,
COOKING, SUPPORTING LOCAL
ARTISTS, AND BUILDING A FAMILY
WITH ARTNELSON’S SON FROM A
PREVIOUS MARRIAGE, TIMYAS.
“I WASN’T IN A PLACE WHERE I WAS
LOOKING,” ARTNELSON SHRUGGED.
COMING OUT OF A DIVORCE, THE
CALIFORNIA NATIVE WASN’T
ACTIVELY DATING. “I REALLY
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LOVE AT CHA CHA CHAWhen you ask Paloma Belara about her first date experience with Artnelson Concordia, she immediately crinkles into laughter. “He didn’t even know it was a first date,” she waved. Press her further and you’ll understand why.
Introduced by their musically inclined friend (an understatement at best, their friend is none other than Jack or “Kiwi” in the hip hop world), Paloma instantly took a liking to the high school teacher. So much so she asked Art if the two could get together because she “wanted to become a teacher herself.”
THOUGHT SHE JUST WANTED TO
INTERVIEW ME ABOUT BEING A
TEACHER!” HE SMILED BROADLY.
BUT, THE CHEMISTRY WAS
UNDENIABLE, THE COUPLE ADMITS.
IT WAS A GRADUAL ROMANCE,
EXPLAINS PALOMA. “THE
PROPOSAL WAS REALLY SIMPLE,
NO BIG SHOW OR SPECIAL
EFFECTS, BUT OUR ENTIRE
JOURNEY AS A COUPLE FELT LIKE
A PROPOSAL, “ SHE POINTS OUT.
“WE TOOK OUR TIME TO GET TO
KNOW EACH OTHER, LEARN EACH
OTHER, AND ALSO BE RESPECTFUL
TO THE FACT THAT HIS SON
WAS ANOTHER PIECE TO OUR
RELATIONSHIP THAT HAD TO BE
HANDLED WITH LOVE AND CARE.
AFTER ONE YEAR, WE BOTH KNEW
THAT WE WERE COMMITTED TO
EACH OTHER AND READY TO KEEP
GROWING. I GRADUALLY BECAME
PART OF HIS SON’S LIFE TOO, AND
SOON THE THREE OF US WERE
ENJOYING LIFE TOGETHER.”
SO WHEN THE TIME CAME
AROUND FOR ARTNELSON’S
BIRTHDAY LAST NOVEMBER,
THE ANSWER WAS EASY WHEN
ARTNELSON ASKED PALOMA TO
BE HIS PARTNER IN LIFE.
“YES. I SAID YES,” SHE SMILED.
A FEW MONTHS FOLLOWING THE
PROPOSAL, ARTNELSON, PALOMA,
AND TIMYAS WERE GREETED WITH
MORE BIG NEWS THAT WOULD
MARK THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR
FAMILY: TIMYAS WOULD SOON BE
A BIG BROTHER.
LIFE THESE DAYS IS LOOKING FULL
AND ROBUST FOR THE BELARA-
CONCORDIA CLAN. THEIR STORY
AND COMMITMENT TO EACH
OTHER, FAMILY, COMMUNITY,
EDUCATION JUSTICE, AND THE
LOCAL ARTIST SCENE EMBODIES
OUR LOOK GOOD, DO GOOD
MAXIM. CONGRATULATIONS TO
THEIR INCREDIBLE UNION AND
FUTURE AHEAD.
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ANDRIA LO
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STYLING
JENNY TON
JULIA RHEE
CO-FOUNDERS
RETROFIT REPUBLIC
MODELS
PALOMA BELARA
ARTNELSON CONCORDIA
TIMYAS CONCORDIA
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MAKEUP
JULIE DY
JULIEDY.COM
HAIR
GENEIVE JARAMILLA
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FOOD DESIGN
CHANDARA PHANACHONE
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LOOKBOOK DESIGN
DANIEL TRAN
ART DIRECTOR, RETROFIT REPUBLIC
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COPYWRITING
JULIA RHEE, WRITER + EDITOR
JENNY TON, EDITOR
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