GIFTED: RAFE TOTENGCO.

Byline: Bambina Olivares Wise

Accessories designer and Nine West creative director, Rafe Totengco, shares his favourite places, items and social networking sites An accessories designer with a serious case of wanderlust, Philippine-born Rafe Totengco is Nine West's new creative director. After setting up a successful fashion label called Schizo in his native country, he moved to New York to study at the famous Fashion Institute of Technology. He stayed on to establish his eponymous bag line, Rafe, in 1997, which was acquired last year by Jones New York. His skill for balancing style with function and blending & uptown sophistication with a downtown edge& has won him …