PASSIONATE Filipino fashion advocate and Tourism Promotions Board (TBP) Chief Operating Officer Marga Nograles has been a staple thumbs-up girl in The Manila Times Lifestyle's most fashionable SONA list since the Duterte administration. Her husband, Karlo Nograles, of course, was the prominent 'Cab Sec' (cabinet secretary) at the time, while she ran the now celebrated Filipino fashion brand Kaayo, besides being the supportive wife and hands-on mother to three children.

Prominently championing the products of indigenous communities through her brand and NGO undertakings, the Marcos administration took notice of her efforts and appointed her to lead the TBP in October 2022.