The suit is sharp, the shirt crisp and the leather on the shoes burnished. Now it’s down to the final touches, particularly the slickest of watches. At last I got the chance to do a proper fashion story in BRUMMELL magazine after working as a fashion assistant for 2 issues. I have to thank Dominic Bell, the art director of Brummell, who gave me this opportunity.

For the watches & jewellery issue the theme is ‘Horology’. I was commissioned to produce the main style section and 2 double-page spreads on women’s and men’s watches. I’m very proud as I could say that all fashion stories in this issue were all styled by me. What an amazing opportunity!

The main story and a story on women’s white watches was shot by Bruce Anderson. He’s one of the best photographers I’ve work with – precise, efficient with immaculate results. The story is the life of a businessman keeping track the time from dawn till dusk.

The fashion story included an amazing range of suits and overcoats from Alexander McQueen, Bottega Veneta to Giorgio Armani, and an incredible leather briefcase from Bally and a mock-croc briefcase from Burberry.

I also made some small props for the women’s watches page by making geometrical forms. So in this issue on the upside, I had fun calling in and cutting things up, while the downside was a desire to buy an IWC watch that was absolutely over my budget with a price tag of £13,500.  Well! I don’t have that much money to spend now but it doesn’t mean I won’t have that much money in the future..  I keep telling myself everyday :-)

The magazine has already come out to subscribers of Dow Jones’s Financial News. I’m very happy with this Brummell issue. These are great fashion stories for my portfolio. Another small step closer to the heart of UK fashion industry!

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For the first fashion set for The Quarterly autumn 2011 I had the chance to work with food. The shoot aimed to combine the best of Italian watchmaking with the best of  Italian ingredients from olive oil, pasta to amazing purse-like tomatoes!

The fashion features watches from traditional Italian companies such as Guiliano Mazzuoli, Panerai, Bulgari, Maccaniche Veloci to fashion houses including Gucci, Versace, and the very first watch collection by Ermenegildo Zegna by Girard-Perregaux.

My favourite watches have to be the ones from Guiliano Mazzuoli and Panerai that come with dark brown leather straps. They look amazing, something I could wear with a t-shirt or jeans for any occasion.

The star of the story are those incredible tomatoes that at first glance look just like a red velvet drape bag from Prada a few seasons’ past. They’re also tasty, not just good-looking, sweet, fresh and juicy.

Another great piece of work for published  Schön!, a London-based fashion magazine. The fashion story took inspiration from the book ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy, the idea being what it would be like to be alive when the world ends. This is a girl who travels across continents looking for a new habitat.

I’m so lucky to have had the chance to work with the incredible hair stylist Soichi Inagagi and the amazing make up artist Joey Choy. We worked together to create a unique look that for every single outfit. The fashion shoot also had awesome props made by my assistant, Fay Lamchaiprasert. So super thanks to her too!

We had Lina model for us and she is the true star of this fashion story.  Working with her and 10 outfits was very really fun and very easy task. This is yet another great fashion story that Sarah Brimley, our talented photographer, amazed me again.

The magazine has come out already, so you could grab a copy from any newsstand or follow this link for the online version.

This might not be a main fashion story or the cover for a magazine but I’m very proud to work on ST Men’s Style. One of the best men’s style magazine from London produced by Show Media for the Sunday Telegraph, not to be confused with the Sunday Times, this one from the Telegraph is much classier!

I have to say big thanks to Ciara Walshe for giving me the opportunity to work on this issue. She’s an amazing senior Art Director at Show Media who works on all ST magazines from ST Fashion, ST Kids, ST Watches & Jewellery to ST Men’s Style.

Worked for Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE and Wallpaper* in Asia before doesn’t guarantee my success in the UK. This’s small step with ST magazine is a big leap for me, a step closer to a chance of working for Vogue one day. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Online version of a magazine can be seen here with my work on page 18 and 30-31.

Working on the ‘What to Pack’ story for The Quarterly magazine is always challenging. For this autumn issue’s Italian theme, I decided to create a mosaic tiles by printing on paper. This simple technique created the illusion of mosaic floor from the south of Italy.

The work started very early as usual with glueing all the printed paper together. Then selected products for the story from amazing copper python bag by Zagliani, beautiful green crocodile shoes by Tod’s to shimmering knit jumper by Prada.

As always I worked with Tif Hunter as he’s lots of experience doing these complicated fashion spreads. The images might look very simple but the process behind it is a truly daunting task. I learn something new every time I work on this story and I love it!