By Aisha Hassan on December 2, 2025
There is a distinct luminosity to the brand All That Glitters. It is jewelry designed for people in motion, for those who move through the world with intention, carrying fragments of memory, color, and place. As the mother brand of Disenyo Del Sur, a creative platform championing contemporary Filipino design and craft, All That Glitters sets the emotional tone and standard of artisanship.
Founded by creatives who grew up between geographies and cultural rhythms, the brand reflects a design language shaped by movement. High-tone stones, sculptural forms, and subtle volumes recall a time when people dressed with elegance, moving between cities and islands, for instance, rather than urgency. Many of the pieces are modular, and all are crafted by hand.
Dia is proud to welcome All That Glitters and, by extension, Disenyo Del Sur, to our community of brands. Below, Amanda LuYm (CEO & Creative Head) and Cacay Moras, (President & CFO), take us inside the designs.
How does Filipino heritage shape the way you design or curate pieces within Disenyo Del Sur?
We value what is handmade, what is considered, and what brings beauty into the everyday because it is how craft exists in our culture. Color, texture, and small moments of joy are not afterthoughts; instead, they are intrinsic to how we move through the world. This spirit informs our curation. We choose pieces that carry the warmth, optimism, and playfulness that Filipinos are known for, while still holding a refined, contemporary point of view. We design from a place of joy, and we hope that feeling is something people sense when they discover our work.
Why did you choose to create a platform rather than a label?
We chose to build a platform because so many women-led makers and independent designers around us were facing the same challenges—beautiful work, powerful stories but limited visibility. Instead of adding one more isolated label to the mix, we wanted to create a shared voice: clean, contemporary design unburdened by the laborious caricatures of cultural trope yet still honoring and elevating the heritage behind it. We also wanted to prioritize personal evolutions and narratives for our brands and the other brands we showcase, without the heavy framework that a lot of current artisanal avenues and points of sale place upon independent labels. It is important for us to honor their visions as creatives, first.
Let’s deep dive into three items from Dia’s curation, and why they’re special.
The Large Gray Coin Pearls on Chainlink Earrings create a quiet dialogue between structure and softness. The clean, minimalist geometry of the tops referencing 90’s sculptural minimalism with the sharp juxtaposition of the organic irregularity of the pearls, create an entirely contemporary statement piece that embodies All That Glitters design philosophy.
The Citrine Drops on Flower Studs has golden citrine briolette drops designed to detach and shift with the wearer’s needs. No two are alike, as each stud is individually handmade by our artisans. The floral shape recalls the flora of the region, not in literal motifs but in softened silhouettes and organic surfaces that feel distinctly Southeast Asian with a subtle feminine grace.
The Peridot & Amethyst Drops on Marquise Studs create a quiet dialogue between structure and color. The palette—drawn from the tropics’ deeper notes of forest green and dusk violet—recalls tropical landscapes as well as the broader Southeast Asian histories of traded stones, dyes, and pigments moving between cultures. A fully detachable design underscores the brand’s commitment to modularity.
Is there a particular technique or tradition you hope to preserve?
We hope to preserve the quiet poetry of the handmade—the hand-set stones, the soulful hand-finishes, the techniques that rely on touch rather than the machine made. There is a warmth and human cadence in those gestures that can not be replicated with precision tools. That “presence” of the maker, unseen but felt, is always foremost.
What themes or emotions are inspiring your current collections/curations?
Amanda: A great deal of my inspiration for the jewelry comes from the landscapes and cultural memories that shape life across Asia—the blues found on our side of the Pacific, the sandy textures of resort towns, and the historical palettes carried through both the Sino and Indo spheres of influence. I always center a worldview built between balancing elegance and languid leisure: the kind of casual Asian chic achieved when clothing and adornment is no longer performative but is intrinsic to living well. Those influences inform the scale of our motifs and the clarity of the jewelry silhouettes in All That Glitters. Less about fashion trends and more about a way of moving through the world with quiet assurance. The notion of Timelessness is of foremost importance to everything I do.
Who or what outside of fashion—art, music, landscapes, cultural memories—influences your brand direction?
Amanda: I come to jewelry through the eyes of a visual artist. I trained in fine art and photography at UCLA, and I grew up moving between California and Cebu, so the way I see the world is through that third-culture rhythm—urban sensibilities softened by island life. Abstract expressionism, Japanese Zen, and a lifelong reliance on instinct guide how I approach form, color, and movement. I believe in more of a “call and response” to current energies felt, rather than cookie cutter fast fashion trends.
It is also what inspires All That Glitters and the wider Disenyo Del Sur platform. This notion of interplay between place, memory, and stillness—the feeling of “place” as much as the actual location. The pieces I create come from the cadence of a vagabond existence/desire for a far horizon and the searching for ease that is found in transit between the spaces. The non performative aspect of adornment is what interests me and its ability to connect is where I like to “live” creatively. These rhythms remind me to create things that feel lived-in, intuitive, and emotionally resonant—pieces for people who dress with intelligence and style.
What is your dream for the next phase of Disenyo Del Sur as a platform?
We sometimes joke that our dream is one of world discovery—our pieces quietly making their way across borders like small cultural ambassadors. In truth, our hope is more grounded: we want our pieces to find the people who will genuinely love and live with them. We want All That Glitters and our other labels to reach new shores, new environments where there is room for a slower, more intentional kind of beauty. Not unlike our forbearers, trading across oceans and finding new opportunities for all of us. Disenyo Del Sur was born in the pandemic, as a life raft for ourselves and our partner brands. We would love for it to grow into a fleet of beautiful ideas circumnavigating the globe.
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
