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By  The Nation
9 Mar 2010
Bangkok International Fashion Week is really getting stretched out - from an ancient civilisation lost in the sea to the far distant future

Acclaimed designers|including Chamnan Pakdisuk, Sirichai Daharanond, Bhubawit Kritpholnara (Roj Singakul) and Pollapath Asavaprapa will rule the catwalk for Bangkok International Fashion Week, amid a special visit from New York's celebrated Koi Suwannagate.

The 17 clothing parades being staged from March 18 to 21 at Siam Paragon's Parc Paragon will promote "Fashion for Life" with outfits for this spring and summer 2010 collection.

And the label Issue is going to do it underwater - in the huge aquarium at Siam Ocean World.

That fits in with Fashion Week's aim to raise Bt40 million for marine conservation.

Meanwhile the designers at Asava for Singha are just back from New York and want to present "The

Other Upper West Side", with preppy styles for smart women, including chic uniforms, trench coats, pleated shirts and silk evening gowns.

The Big Apple's own Nantirat "Koi" Suwannagate has Audi's backing for a line inspired by the classic Thai novel "Si Pandin" - "The Four Kingdoms". The handcrafted clothes are ultra-feminine and very romantic.

Pusdee Mun Tarbhon will show a semi-couture collection for "Busardi Presented by Giffarine Tenshi" that's called "Subtle State of Mind". The beautiful outfits reflect your changing spirit and sometimes-anguished emotions using pink, yellow, purple-grey and gold.

Nissara Liptawattana of Dusk till Dawn has fallen in love with the charmingly scary movie "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" and is using criss-crossed coloured bands to signify love's subconscious restraints.

Accenting her clothes of thick cotton, wavy silk and lace lining will be some interesting costume jewellery from Wonder Brothers, designed by Anusak Kaew Krachang.

Over at the Tube Gallery, Phisit Jongnarangsin and Saksit Pisalasupongs have been screening "Spartacus" and came up with outfits worthy of Roman goddesses and the warriors who fight over them. Expect lots of draping and pleating, plus beadwork, sequins and metallic thread.

Flynow is sweeping for inspiration all the way from the Renaissance to the 17th century, but there's modernism among the romance, with layers of silk, chiffon and see-through fabrics in rust, brown, yellow and grey.

No one is going further back in history than Issue by Bhubawit Kritpholnara (Roj Singakul), though. It's presenting "Lemuria, the Lost Continent in BC 70,000". The label will convince you there really was such a place with its use of artefacts among the linen, chiffon, silk and denim, all blowing bubbles on an underwater runway.

Come up for air with Theatre, which is taking a young couple on a romantic and sensuous vacation, complete with ethnic decorative elements, floral prints, graphics, stripes and polka dots.

The men will be clothed this year by Painkiller, 27 Nov, Mob F and Singha Life.

Painkiller's confident-not-flamboyant minimalism will appeal to art lovers, while 27 Nov's "27 Family" gets some gothic and grunge mileage out of the screen ghoul comedy "The Addams Family".

Mob F, the multiple-brand involving 42 designers, is making a name in individuality, and Singha Life has quenched the thirst of thousands of free-spirited men.

Also due on the catwalk are the sweet threads of Kunitar and 8E88, who are planning a fun show with the help of GSM Advance. "Kunitar's Dressing Room" will have dozens of celebrities and top models participating.

Then there's the Code 10 extravaganza of evening and party dresses from Sanshai, Vatit Itthi, T-Ra, Chai, Pravit Sawadwiphachai, Real, Maruwut, Tipayaphong Poosanaphong and Tipanan Krairiksh.

And China's Wang Zhen will put on a JNBY show called "Nostalgic Warm", where the 1980s collide with the future.

Swimwear by Phuket Mermaids draws inspiration from Spanish culture.

And Fash, the label launched by Srinakarinwirot University students, might just teach the professionals a thing or two.
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