With their unusual forms and intriguing finishes, the furniture and household objects by Bangkok-based British designer Alexander Lamont just cry out to be touched. Be it lamp, cabinet or table, his pieces have more in common with antiques than most modern furniture in that each one has its own individual texture and character – albeit… [more]

For its latest offering, young Thai urbanwear label Q Design and Play have again looked to the past for inspiration. While their last collection, Give Peace a Chance, revisited the seventies, namely how peaceniks campaigning against the Vietnam War dressed, their latest, Before 20th Century, is influenced by the work of late Italian surrealist Piero… [more]

Old pieces abound at Bangkok’s retro train market Since Bangkok’s Talad Rot Fai, or Railway Market, first opened a year ago, the city’s young, hip and fabulous have been bringing a certain chemistry, enthusiasm and dynamism to what might have been just another swap-meet. On any given Saturday or Sunday evening, Talat Rot Fai is… [more]

Designer, Ms. Prin Sachakul, sees her label The Oddyssee as a sort of laboratory where disparate creative elements drawn from fashion, art, graphic, music and film are fused together to create exciting new clothes. It’s a wildly ambitious, fashion-meets-art concept that’s in full effect in her autumn/winter collection ‘Winter Wonder Field’: a set of vintage… [more]

Showcased at October’s Elle Fashion Week, whimsical women’s label Kloset’s latest collection is about “a journey on an endless road by a group of strangers who join a road trip unexpectedly but share the same dreams.” This Huckleberry Finn road trip like conceit translates into feral but stylish clothes featuring prints of blossoms, pines and… [more]

When we first heard Bangkok was getting a new terminal we were excited. Imagine: no more queues at the immigration desk! As it turns out, though, Terminal 21, at Asok Junction, is a new landing strip for the city’s shopaholics not airplanes. How does it vary from the glut of other malls in the capital?… [more]

Khun Dee, the owner of this organic shop, wants Urban Tree to be seen as a mini-mart for the naturally addicted. Located in the historic Dusit district (close to Ratchawat, Sriyan and Banglumphu markets), the clean white exterior of this shop stands it apart from the area’s busy array of stalls and restaurants serving mouth-watering… [more]

Last month’s Elle Fashion Week gave the best Thai designers in the business a run on the catwalk over at CentralWorld. One of them, Ek Thongprasert, has just been singled out as one-to-watch by W Hotel’s Global Fashion director, New York It girl Jenn้ Lombardo. Shortly before debuting his meticulously tailored new collection, Curated, in… [more]

The top all-in-one spot to get the lowdown on current Thai designers, Mob. F’s new autumn collection unites 40 brands of fashion and accessories under a jaunty ‘Cool Tribe Mix’ theme. Among the bright and bold items now on sale at the 1,000m² multibrand space – which mimics a typical department store only minus the… [more]

If it’s furnishings you’re after, you can’t get bigger or more all-in-one-place than the Crystal Design Center. A twenty or so minute drive out of central Bangkok, this humungous mall strip-like complex allegedly stocks a staggering 10,000 home décor and furniture brands. It’s made up of eight low-rise buildings, each linked by neat, obstacle-free pedestrian… [more]

While Memorial Bridge (aka Saphan Phut) Night Market isn’t much more than throngs of tented stores and make-shift tables selling cheap goods, the regal backdrop is incomparable. Built in 1932 during the reign of King Rama VII (and dedicated to his predecessor King Rama I), the brightly-lit Memorial Bridge, known in Thai as Saphan Phut,… [more]

by Pattarasuda Prajittanond Bangkok-based designer Milin Yuvacharuskul graduated from London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with a B.A. in Fashion Design with Printed Textiles, later working in the U.K. as a stylist, designer, and columnist for clients ranging from magazines to commercials to films. She later moved to New York to study… [more]

There’s a new record shop in town! This is good news for the vinyl junkies of Bangkok and even for their possibly less enthusiastic girlfriends or strictly ipod-sporting buddies, who can sit next door and enjoy a coffee while their partner digs for the ultimate rare edition. Strictly speaking, it’s really just the location which… [more]

Central Department Store is arranging the 13th year of Asia’s most spectacular annual timepiece exhibition, people who look at their watches for more than just the time will love the Central International Watch Fair 2011, where they say the featured 180 brands are worth “more than 5,000 million baht”. Tick them off – Sarcar, Maitres… [more]