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Most Memorable MEGA Ball Looks We’ve Seen on Stars

Before Fashion + Dance takes the floor, we rewind to the stars—from Heart to Nadine—who turned MEGA Ball into their own stage.

By Biel Arevalo June 11, 2025

Most Memorable MEGA Ball Looks We've Seen on the Stars

With MEGA Ball 2025 just moments away, the usual questions return: Who’s coming? What will they wear? And how far can this year’s theme—Fashion + Dance—be stretched? While we wait to see who pirouettes into the spotlight, we look back at the star moments that live rent-free in our heads, no matter how many MEGA Ball editions come and go.

Vice Ganda, 2017

Vice Ganda in John Herrera — ^{in john Herrera}

At MEGA Millennial Ball’s modern FilipinianaFilipinianaThe traditional national dress and style of the Philippines, encompassing garments such as the terno, Maria Clara gown, barong Tagalog, and baro't saya. Celebrated for handwoven fabrics and intricate embroidery,Go to Filipiniana Glossary affair, Vice Ganda arrived in a John Herrera creation with a seemingly endless train. Pray for Marawi ran along the hem, making the evening about more than just fashion.

Anne Curtis, 2017

Anne Curtis in Mark Bumgarner — ^{in mark bumgarner}

Modern FilipinianaFilipinianaThe traditional national dress and style of the Philippines, encompassing garments such as the terno, Maria Clara gown, barong Tagalog, and baro't saya. Celebrated for handwoven fabrics and intricate embroidery,Go to Filipiniana Glossary? Anne Curtis heard “modern” and answered with petals. In a blooming Mark Bumgarner creation, she stepped out as the loophole in the dress code—and it worked.

Catriona Gray, 2019

Catriona Gray in Mak Tumang — ^{in mak tumang}

Wearing rose gold like a second skin, Miss Universe 2018 turned the MEGA Equality Ball into a runway for visibility. She wore Mak Tumang, the same hand behind her winning lava gown.

Bea Alonzo, 2023

Bea Alonzo in Mark Bumgarner — ^{in Mark Bumgarner}

When MEGA Ball 2023 called for Art + Fashion, Bea Alonzo gave us form, control, and art in motion. All-black Mark Bumgarner, with padded shoulders and gloss, gave her the kind of gravity only art and confidence can pull off.

Heart Evangelista, 2023

Heart Evangelista in Schiaparelli — ^{in schiaparelli}

Heart Evangelista wore a Schiaparelli piece to the ball. In a simple black maxi, it was quiet until it wasn’t: gold straps, chains slung like punctuation, and a silhouette so relaxed it looked back into high art.

Nadine Lustre, 2024

Nadine Lustre in Ziv Rei Alexi — ^{in Ziv Rei Alexi}

For a night themed Fashion + Food, Nadine Lustre arrived in a piece that said both. The crackled Ziv Rei Alexi creation looked elemental—stone, bark, reptilian scale—but stood for something softer. A belief that fashion, like food, can be both ethical and evocative.

This year, the MEGA Ball stages its most kinetic fantasy yet with Fashion + Dance. Will we see looks that leap, turn, and sway? Or will the lights see more defiants? Whatever happens, we’re in for a spectacle.

Photos: MEGA ARCHIVES