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This is my second time in Macau and it was absolutely more enjoyable than last time. I went there to do a fashion shooting with Honeymoon+Travel magazine, and Macau’s tourist board. We had the tour guide from the tourist board who was the best – all the time we were there, he treated us like royalty.

Since we were surrounded by casinos, it would have been a shame not to have tried gambling! We tried our luck on the dogs (greyhound racing) and while everyone else lost their money, I won a small fortune. I placed $10 bet and won $100.

And here are some pictures from Honeymoon+Travel, Macau issue. The models are a real couple, they’re a famous TV stars in Thailand. So enjoy!

A cover I styled for Wallpaper* Thai edition, January 2010, another cover that I’m happy with. The theme is introducing and ranking all the design schools and colleges in Thailand.

The shoot included a lot of symbols associated with different fields of design: graphic design, interior design, film, architecture, product design, etc.

Looking forward to see the cover on the magazine stands, and I hope everyone will love the January issue.

Laos is like Thailand’s brother. Even though we speak different languages, they pretty much sound the same and I can guess the meaning. I believe our languages come from the same root.

We arrived in Vientiane in the morning when everything was calm and peaceful. The work started right away at the temples around the city. The temples here look absolutely stunning. They’re very old and very beautiful, like some kind of idyllic oriental retreats.

After many shots around the temples, we took some photos around the Victory Monument (Laos Arc de Triomphe). I noticed that people in Laos are very friendly and relaxed all the time.

I got the feeling that it would be a perfect place for someone who wants a quite life. They would find Laos to be heaven on earth.

In the night after the shooting we had a wonder around town to get a feeling to the place, and found out that a lot of teenagers go to a place called ‘Center Point’ just to have some hot soya milk and chat with their friends. How cute is that? This wouldn’t happen in Bangkok for sure. The kids in Bangkok prefer beers and cocktails to soya milk.

The magazine has already come out and I hope everyone loves the fashion pictures. Here’s the link.

After having had long hair for 15 years because I didn’t think short hair suited me. I’ve finally had my hair cut short at last. Then I had my  picture taken (with my new hair) for 4th Anniversary of Wallpaper* magazine Thai edition, August 09 issue. The theme of the issue was the New Creative Elite: people who can shape the future of this country (Thailand). And it turned out short hair doesn’t look bad at all. The magazine featured people from many different fields, such as artists, art activists, architects, interior designers, fashion designers, etc. My picture was taken for the stylists page along with two other Thai stylists.

The article feature each stylist next to their own model styled in own distinctive style . For me, my interest in fashion started in the early-mid 90s, I am inspired by grunge fashion and the haute couture collections of that decade. I think my inspiration and who am I today comes mainly from the magazine ‘Dutch.’

Dutch was an avant-grade fashion magazine that only produced 40 issues during the 90s, but it left a big impression on me (I still keep and treasure all those old issues). The style of Dutch was all about how cheap grunge and expensive couture can be blended together seamlessly – it’s about ‘dress-down couture’. The magazine really did shape what I am today in term aesthetics and my perception of beauty. The magazine sort out beauty in imperfection: the beauty of the ugliness.

I styled my model with a luxurious red velvet coat from Prada mixed with a self-customised grungy T-shirt, a Chanel gold chain necklace, a hat from a Thai designer, and Dr Martens boots.

The magazine’s out now in Thailand. And man!!! I look like I’ve just turning 20 in the picture. 10 years youger, HOW LOVELY!!!…. ;-))

It was a test shoot for photographer and model in March. We working with lots of beautiful clothes such as Prada, Dries Van Noten, Jil Sander and many brands. But the most interesting thing of the day was my assistant that he was absolutely fierce in those pose!

We worked with Canadian and Russian girls to produce beautiful fashion spreads for 2 magazine. The shoot went on in the morning and finished in late afternoon a usual. After the shoot, my assistant had an idea of doing some picture of himself with LV clothes that we had just like the LV’s advert.

I thought my assistant were FIERCE than madonna ;-p as he dressed more stylish with bangles from Burberry, bag and hat from Chanel. Only one thing missing, he hasn’t got that long Madonna legs! Anyway, I think my assistant is very cute and funny. He alway made my hard and stressful job become entertaining thing to do. Wasn’t you love him too ;-))

It’s a tight schedule work for late Spring-Summer 2009 season fashions. This was a fashion shoot for CRUSH, Thai men magazine, that I did last week.

Even though Crush magazine is a men magazine but when they produce sexy women fashion they don’t want a porn visual for their magazine likes Maxim or FHM. This is why the fashion that I did for them was a clean stylish with a hint of sexy elegance. The clothes in the set were a mixed of Spring-Summer pieces with the underwear collection – for example Hermés’s shirtdress and Chanel’s jacket mixed with see-through lace from La Perla.

The girl we worked with was one of the best girl in Bangkok ;-)) It really good when you pick the right girl. I can tell you!

I always pay attention to the casting process as I often had bad experience with it. Even though the photographer great, the stylist is amazing and the clothes are immaculate, the picture could turn out to be poor because of the wrong model for the job.

Here is the link of fashion spreads. The magazine will come out in this month and I hope everyone love it…