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A penchant for eclecticism
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 28/06/2019
» Angela Missoni has an instinctively observant eye befitting a creative director who has helmed her family's fashion brand to global regard for over 20 years. Within the first few seconds of stepping into the new Missoni store which has just opened at Central Embassy, she is quick to catch the discord within the flagship's ambience: the distasteful black tape holding down speaker wires, a hat on a stand angled at a disagreeable position and this writer's purposely mismatched earrings.
The politics of parade outfits
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 15/08/2016
» 'That is the type of design we need," Thailand's shooting athlete Tanyaporn Prucksakorn says of Team USA's opening ceremony look.
Longing for a better Comic Con
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 06/05/2016
» Very little squealing went down at this year's Bangkok Comic Con -- at least from yours truly. The massive geeky gig last weekend, now in its third year, was again hosted at BITEC this past weekend, although this year by True Visions and not the old co-host, BEC Tero. If you missed it, you didn't miss very much, as the smaller, local booths (distributors of books, DVDs, merchandise) that did not join BCC made for a pretty dull affair.
Asia focus
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 29/02/2016
» Internationally best-selling author Kevin Kwan chuckles when he describes what his movie producers come across when scouting for locations or attending posh parties in Singapore with the local film crowd.
Filthy rich, and loving it
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 10/08/2015
» Days of back-breaking labour in the desolate boonies, farming for their lives, is a stale cliché concerning the Chinese. Women are no longer under some ring of patriarchal oppression and they contemptuously shun haute couture dresses bedecked with phoenix and dragon embroidery. This is a new and brave China we are talking about -- they are not just crazy rich -- they are China Rich, as Kevin Kwan's second book title aptly coins it.
whipping up a storm
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 16/06/2015
» Why anyone would want to live in Westeros sounds insane (and morbid), but to those that fantasise about it, Jessica Henwick suggests that Dorne is probably the best city to do so.
Comic Con conquers Bangkok
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 23/05/2014
» The chance to peruse through mountains of toys, buy comics at ridiculously low prices, meet silver-screen idols and have photo-ops with the likes of Iron Man, Arale and other much-loved movie and cartoon characters, finally arrived earlier this month at the inaugural Thailand Comic Con.
A survey of Siam: It's shopping as usual
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 03/02/2014
» Our beloved Siam Square goes through torments, both political and non-political, and has survived throughout the years to maintain itself as the hub of teenage trendiness. Siam Square's latest test barely three years after the red-shirts riots is the People's Democratic Reform Committee's "shutdown" operation, with its centre at the Pathumwan intersection.