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Descendants of dance
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 10/09/2015
» Kenny Ortega has another hit on his hands. If there's a movie featuring dancing, then we tend to think of this acclaimed American director, producer and choreographer. Ortega is behind various cult musical phenomena that different generations of teens have grown up with, from the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, Michael Jackson's This Is It concerts, to the globally-embraced High School Musical trilogy.
No space for the plain
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 27/08/2015
» Over at Miu Miu, things are just as campy. This autumn/winter, the sassy ladies' brand treads on that borderline between classy and tasteless. It's all about finding beauty in the ugly, a tricky and ironic notion if there ever was one. Since animal prints have long been personally hard to pull off, it is the key feature that runs throughout the whole collection. This season offers lots of material for you to practice your print-on-print game to check how well your mix and match skills fare.
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.
Turning over a new leaf
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 24/07/2015
» Ironically, one of the oldest German tea traders feels more at home opening up their very first tea lounge in Thailand than they would in their motherland. Still, they wouldn't be the first to do so, as Twinings and Whittard of Chelsea are among other European tea powerhouses that chose Bangkok as their choice of destination.
Going West
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 14/07/2015
» Wakey wakey, Thailand. Look at what the winds are bringing in: Thai remakes of American series. How well is any of this is going to go down? So glad you asked, because we did our homework.
Nice numbers, no plot
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 26/06/2015
» If you're in the mood for dance-offs and dance sequences in the streets, in practice rooms, in restaurants, in studios, in bars, in front of the Bellagio Fountains, on motorcycles, on TV, on the harbour, on buses, on the stage, on another stage in the US, and amid a monolith of a canyon structure, then ABCD 2 (Any Body Can Dance 2) has more than enough dancing for all.
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.
From Amsterdam to Amsterdenim
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 04/06/2015
» Known as the denim Mecca of the world, today heads turn to Japan for the finest and most premium jeans man can produce. Italy runs a pretty close second, being home to some of the best fabric mills, as well as having a long heritage of vintage looks. Mention this textile and America too comes to mind, for being the nation that has globally popularised jeans, ensuring the product transcended its original functional purpose of being worn by labourers in the mines. But for those outside of the denim loop, it is hard to envision how the Netherlands, a country anything but fashion-forward, could be seen as the new centrepoint for denim, both commercial and niche.
Living by the sword
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 07/05/2015
» For Tommy Dunne, the weapons master of Game Of Thrones, fiddling around with Swarovski-encrusted swords, bronze shields, bows and spears is all in a day's work. Showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff even roped him into a season four cameo as the blacksmith who reforges Ned Starks's Ice into the iconic swords, Oathkeeper and Widow.
Height of Korean chic
Muse, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 18/04/2015
» The Japanese have had their turn making waves in the fashion retail world, but now it seems to be the turn of the Koreans, with big high street brands finally coming to Bangkok. We give you a closer look at two well-known brands that Thai fashionistas have always followed, one which has recently celebrated its first store at EmQuartier, and another which ran out of stock due to huge sales within just a couple of days after its launch on Zalora. Forget the hassle of flying to Korea as everything is now right here on our doorstep.