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A new cover I styled for Wallpaper* Thai edition, January 2010, I very in love and happy with it. The theme is all about introducing and ranking all the design school and colleges in Thailand.. talking about how good and bad they are and who behind it, that shape the Thai design scene.

The shoot including lot of graphic sign elements that associate with design things in different fields; Graphic design, Interior design, Film, Architecture, Product design and so on…

And now it time for me to get busy for February cover of Wallpaper* magazine… so I hope you enjoy this January issue of Wallpaper* Thai edition!

After having long hair for 15 year because I believe that short hair is so not me! Then I’ve finally cut it short at last and took a picture for 4th Anniversary of Wallpaper* magazine Thai edition, August 09 issue : New creative elite. People who can shape the future of this country. And it turn out short hair not bad at all… The magazine featuring people in lot of categories such as artist, art activist, architecture, interior designer, fashion designer and etc. My picture was taken to put in Stylist page along with two other Thai stylist .

At the interview shoot everyone has their own model along with the article. For me, my fashion start about 1990. It all about grunge fashion and haute couture at that time. I think my inspiration and who am I today mostly come from the magazine called ‘Dutch’.

Dutch was an Avant-Grade fashion magazine that only last for 40 issue at the late 90s but it leave a big mark to my heart (I still keep all those old issue as a diamond in my collection). It’s about how cheap grunge and expensive couture meet each other, it is about ‘Dress down couture’. The magazine really shape what I am today interm of my beauty perception. The magazine speak out loud about the beauty of not perfection, the beauty of the uglyness!

I styling my model wearing a gorgeous red velvet coat from Prada mix with customised grunge T-shirt I made myself, also Chanel gold chain necklace and hat from Thai designer and sure Dr.Martens boots.

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

It is a test shoot for photographer and model and it happen in early March. We working with lot of beautiful clothes from Prada, Dries Van Noten, Jil Sander and many more. And today my assistant absolutlely fierce!!!

We are working with one Canadian girl and another Russian girl. One of the test shoot set will be publish in 2 magazine this June.

The shoot went on like usual until we got some free time at the end of the shoot… My assistant then got an idea he want to be like Madonna in the advert of Madonna for Louis Vuitton as we have the LV collection of shoes and clothes at the studio.

I think my assistant a bit FIERCE than madonna ;-)) as he dress more with bangles from Burberry, bag and hat from Chanel… but one thing missing is that he got a bit of SHORT legs compare to the goddess mother.. I think my assistant is very cute and funny. He made hard and stressful job become fun to do!!?!?!? DO YOU LIKE HIM ;-))

It was a tight schedule shoot of the last Spring-Summer 2009 collection as most of the brand would go on sale season and it all about Pre-fall now. This is a fashion shoot for CRUSH, men magazine in Thailand, that I did last week.

CRUSH magazine don’t want any female fashion like something in your face as Maxim or FHM did. So the fashion result in a clean styling but elegant and sexy. The clothes in this set are the mix of Spring-Summer 2009 pieces with underwear from Hermés shirtdress to Chanel jacket mix with see-through lace from La Perla.

The girl we working with is one of the best model in Bangkok ;-)) It really good when you pick the right girl to work with, I can tell you!

I always pay attention to the detail of having the right girl for the right shoot as I used to have lot of experiences that even though the photographer is great and the clothes are stunning but with the bad girl, the picture could end up not quite like it should be… and this I seen in lot of fashion shooting today that not really success.

Here the link of contact sheet and sample layout. The magazine will come out in this month and I hope everyone like it…

It was in March 2008 when I was in Helsinki and one thing I remember is how nice and charming little city to live.

We arrived at night around 7pm. and by the time we got to the hotel it was about 9pm. and everything in Helsinki was so quite. Doesn’t seem many people walking around city centre in the night. Or is it just because it is a big city with just only  578,126 people…

First morning in Helsinki for me is Sunday. I woke up quite early with the photographer and start exploring the town near our hotel a little bit. It is about 8am and it is not much people around town. The temperature here a bit chilli but I have a nice cardigan to keep me warm.

Our hotel not very far from port of Helsinki and it is walking distance to Helsinki Cathedral. The Helsinki Cathedral is very huge while the decoration is very clean and simple just like St.Paul in London another thing in common with the St.Paul is a tourist spot. In here we see many tourist on the big staircase enjoying a sun in a nice sunny day.

In the afternoon me and photographer start do some shooting around town for Premiere magazine. It was very easy job to work as the town is so clean and beautiful to take a picture. After we finish our job, we start doing more our little walk to everything in town and what we found is a nice park and a beautiful glass house.

before we leave Finland, we also visiting a small town with an icy lake that breath takingly beautiful to end our journey… and am 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!