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Here’s my latest piece of work for Wallpaper* Thai edition, February 2010. The theme of this cover is ‘Eco-friendly living’ – and I just realized that the cover actually looks a bit like the painting ‘American Gothic.’

Painted by Grant Wood in 1930, it’s considered one of the most important works of 20th century American art. What a coincidence! Both in the composition, pose and the message. This might be something from our subconscious; remembering our history of art classes at university.

We tried to be environmentally friendly and save energy while doing the shooting. We used the sun as our main source of light, spending 7 hours on the roof of the studio. This gave me a little bit of sun burn for a couple of days.

The clothes are spring/summer 2010 collections from Dior, Prada, and Louis Vuitton. And also lots of Thai designers that use eco-friendly materials and methods.

The magazine is out now for all Thai Wallpaper fans, and I hope everyone loves it :-))

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.

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…

It was in March 2008 when I was in Helsinki and one thing I remember was the charming little city.

We arrived at night around 9 p.m. at this time the street was already quite. It wasn’t look like many people around city centre. This prove that it is the city with the population of  578,126 people.

Our first morning in Helsinki was Sunday. I woke up quite early with the photographer and started survey the town near our hotel. It was about 8 a.m. and it was still quite in the town centre. The temperature here was a bit chilled but I had a lovely chunk cardigan to keep me warm.

Our hotel not very far from the port of Helsinki and it was a walking distance to Helsinki Cathedral. The Helsinki Cathedral was very huge with clean and simple decoration just like St. Paul in London. In here we saw many tourists sat on a big staircase enjoying a sun in a nice sunny day.

In that afternoon we started some photo shoot around the town. It was very easy job as the town was so clean and beautiful for a picture. After we finished our job, we went to a nice park with a beautiful glass house to enjoy some sun ourselves.

Before we left Finland, we also visited a small town with an icy lake that breathtakingly beautiful to end our journey and I’m sure I will be back here again!

I’m not in Tokyo at this time but am in Sendai and Kobe. Here Cherry blossom are everywhere for about a week to enjoy in April. This was a chance to experience some authentic Japanese apart from manga and Harajuku girls.

We stay in very nice and traditional hotel and yes it has a hot spring here. So basically life here apart from working with fashion shooting for Honeymoon & Travel, it is about sight seeing around town, relaxing in hot spring and yes having a big Japanese feat most of the meal!

The food we have here are much more a surprise. Every evening at the hotel they always serve some kind of feat to us (am already forgot what it called in Japanese). It had all kind of Japanese food you could imagine including ‘uni’ or Sea Urchin  (I must say I don’t really like it, but well I’m not a raw food lover anyway). So every dinner, food will start serve one after another (sure lot of Sake too) for over two and a half hours. It absolutely made me felt like a KING!!!!!

I also had a chance to try fresh young Sake that not look like Sake but MILK in Sendai.. It has very sweet taste with a strong alcohol. I must confess I’m not enjoy that much would prefer a normal Sake to drink than sweet alcohol!

And when am in Kobe, What else could it be but try the best beef in Japan and I want to assure you all.. IT THE BEST BEEF I’VE EVER TRY! and everyone should try when you are there.

At the very last day we stop by doing some shopping and I brought some interesting stuffs from Issey Miyake and Comme Des Garçon (there are pretty much cheap in here compare to Bangkok and London, I mean quite reasonably price here) before pack our bags and head to the airport. And I hope in very very near future I be back there in Japan real soon.

It has been a long time since I’m visited Moscow and recently just look through the old photo files on the disk and what i found is a memories.

It was a trip for work actually not even much a holiday but apart from stressful situation to get the fashion shooting done for Wallpaper* magazine, I would say it pretty much a HOLIDAY for me. Moscow is very interesting city, my top favorite things here is Architecture, Sculpture of the important people and also monument around the city too. I know lot of you guys especially American would list this country on last as a holiday destination.

And well if you wanna know they are a dark side of the city too. Apart from beautiful building, It is a traffic that is very bad start from 4pm to midnight. That I think it might be a result of road systems in town that build to be a circle of ring road from the centre and sure too many cars in here as well. The guys that is our Russian guide, (we need a guide to survive here as no one speak english! I mean very few) called their own town as ‘Lord of The Ring’ town dub from the road system…

I was in Moscow probably the best time of the year! Well, how could you imagine how hard it is to live in temperature -30ºC until you try once and this i called it the best time of the year to experience it. It was in late December and early January. All the lake and all canal already turn to be an ice.

The hard part to live here i think it is the night! It was so cold that i could not even walk round with bare face and nothing on my head. I’m sorry PETA but I think this is the place that seem resonably to wear ‘Animal Fur’ to keep you warm. I mean yes you could wear some man-made fabric but that I’m sure would require so many layering and might cost you more than having a one off fur coat that would be with you for a lifetime. Anyway, PETA I only have rabbit fur hat! Apart from that scarf and coat are just wool, and a nylon bomber jacket inside with 4 more cotton layering, ok!?…

The sun in here at this time of year would come out around 5hrs that it! I think it about 9am. to 2pm. then it start to get dark as a night. This is the reason why lot of picture I took look very much like sunset picture, eventhough it support to be sunrise at about 9am. or 10am.

One of the most beautiful thing in here is the tube station or they called it METRO. It is decorated with a real palace touch for common people. Every stations has a different theme of story but they are all contained hi-standard luxury apart from the train itself, well, a bit more communist minimalism theme in green army style train.

We decided to go for a fast food for a meal. Even though, McDonald is just round the corner but we decided to have ‘Kumpir’ or Jack Potato that is quite popular fast food in Russia. These Jack Potato shop in Russia is like a McDonald that happen to be in every street near you and easy to get and for me look more healthy than BigMac for sure.

Here a link to some our fashion picture for Wallpaper* Thai edition, Russian issue. It was a real hard work againt the cold weather. I remember that our 120 film camera stop working because of the very low temperature and poraloid seem useless as it not develope any picture on it and adding to all those troubles our models start to had problem with the cold as well. Luckily that our 645 Digital camera managed to safe our trip!