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Valentino showcases Pavillon des Folies
Life, Published on 28/03/2025
» Maison Valentino celebrated the Pavillon des Folies spring/summer 2025 collection with an exclusive event at The Glass House, Nai Lert Park in Bangkok, last week. Held on March 20 and 21, the event showcased a curated selection of women's and men's ready-to-wear pieces, alongside Valentino Garavani handbags, shoes and accessories from the collection. Guests had the opportunity to explore Valentino Garavani bags, including standout runway designs such as the Valentino Garavani 9to5 bag, featuring the all-over Cherryfic pattern and the highly coveted Valentino Garavani Le Chat de la Maison cat-shaped minaudière -- both destined to become the season's most desirable accessories. The two-day event offered guests an immersive and exclusive experience, highlighting the Pavillon des Folies campaign and celebrating Valentino's ongoing dialogue with fashion and contemporary culture.
Remembering soul' s ' Sultans of Sweat '
Life, John Clewley, Published on 21/01/2025
» For twenty years, between 1961 and 1981, the hugely popular US soul and R&B act Sam & Dave, thrilled audiences with their all-action, stompin' soul music. Both singers were brought up singing in gospel choirs at church and they took their 'pleading preacher' call-and-response gospel style to secular audiences.
Macondo encountered
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 31/12/2024
» Ideally, good books should be left alone, even if they sit enshrined in a cobweb after a thousand years of solitude. In the reality of today's content industrial complex, that is unacceptable. Every good book can be and must be adapted. To watch is to live, to binge is to breathe. Literature is not a paradigm of text but fodder for algorithm. So here it is, with an air of inevitability, the much-touted, long-awaited, rigidly respectful and adequately decent Netflix series One Hundred Years Of Solitude -- the first eight parts, with the remaining eight coming next year.
Mastering time zones
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 12/07/2024
» The fruit of internal research and the development of a patented process, Rolex has mastered ceramics for making durable, virtually scratch-proof components whose colour is unaffected by ultraviolet rays. Thanks to its chemical composition, ceramic is inert and cannot corrode. Moreover, it can be highly polished for a long-lasting lustre.
Catch the late Donald Sutherland in these films
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 26/06/2024
» There is more to Donald Sutherland than President Snow. Although the veteran actor who died last week was most recently known for his role in The Hunger Games franchise (2012-2015), Sutherland actually starred in many films and won 24 awards, including an Honorary Oscar in 2018. He also won a Primetime Emmy in 1995 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in the miniseries Citizen X.
Root of the matter
Life, John Clewley, Published on 20/07/2023
» Earlier this year, Craft Recordings released the 2CD compilation Birth Right: A Black Roots Music Compendium with the aim of introducing the astonishing variety and depth of black roots music in the US in just 40 songs. Historian Dr Ted Olson and producer Scott Billington have done a great job of presenting a wide range of styles and genres -- from trad jazz to gospel to Louisiana la-la to Gullah music to country blues to brass bands. It's a fascinating musical ride for the listener.
Prêt-à-porter perfection
Life, Published on 26/08/2022
» To express the inspiration of "The Movement", the upscale German leather brand MCM (Modern Creation München) recently debuted its autumn/winter 2022 collection for the first time in Asia Pacific at Iconsiam.
Joyful elegance
Life, Noko, Published on 24/06/2022
» Last June, Benjamin Comar took the helm at Piaget and it has been a great first year for the CEO, highlighted by the brand's double win at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève 2021.
Contemporary artists channel their inner Poe
Life, Published on 07/04/2022
» A group of Chinese and international artists have joined hands to form a unified identity to touch on the concept of reality during "A Dream Within A Dream", which is running at Tang Contemporary Art until May 3.
It's alive!
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/12/2021
» Doomsayers will have to hold out a little longer. Cinema -- as in people sitting in the dark taking in a communal experience of audiovisual sensations -- is still breathing, moving, enlightening.