Two American things Thais really like come together this season. As one of the exclusive projects that celebrate American pop culture and to commemorate Coach’s 75th anniversary, the house of leather joins hands with the House of Mouse to create limited-edition bags that play canvas to the world’s most famous mouse. With sketches created by Disney’s animators, Mickey Mouse sits on the signature glove-tanned leather of totes, bag packs, wallets and messenger bags. Like the previous Peanuts collection, the embossed character at the bottom of the bag is a bit of a blink-and-you’ll-miss decoration, but this time, there are bold hang-tags in the shape of Mickey’s gloves and face also. If you’d rather proclaim your love more loudly, some bags have the actual Mickey Mouse ear sprouting out from body, which can be spotted a mile away, be it in black or the very red of Mickey’s two-buttoned pants. Find the Disney x Coach collection at Coach stores in CentralWorld, The EmQuartier and Siam Paragon.
For the little misses, Something Boudoir launches a dreamy collaboration with Playhouse (who holds the licensing rights to Disney) to design a pre-autumn collection inspired by The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. Young and urban, the mad array of pieces are as frenzied and colourful as the Mad Hatter’s Party. Mix and match the soft-knitted sweaters, lace shirts, loose pants, cropped tees and printed skirts for your own look that could either turn out girly, sporty, cute, dainty or whatever you want. Even if you don’t want to wear cartoons on your sleeve, there are pieces with fun catch phrases inspired by the cartoon, such as “You’re all mad” or “I’m late”. That’s about the only dreamy things we can list, because the downer we hate to break is that Something Boudoir is closing. There will be something to fill that void of course, so keep your eyes peeled on what new brand their father company, A-List, will conjure up.
Play 25 Hours
Fashion and music crossover is not a new thing. But, in the local scene, it can fire music fans with excitement when uber cool street fashion institution Greyhound Original chooses artists to work with. In the debut of The Iconic Collection, where GMM Grammy x Greyhound Original, 25hours lends its street attitude and rock spirit to Bandit Rassameeroj, senior head designer of Greyhound Original, in designing the limited-edition Play 25 Hours.
Referencing the overall 90s trends and tour merch, the 20-piece collab takes influence from vintage band T-shirts, grunge-aesthetic typography and borrows playful doodles drawn by the band’s frontman Lham. Die-hard fans can hit the next gig with a total look featuring T-shirts, oversized sweatshirts and extras like bandanas, totes and soccer scarves. A surprise collectible doll of “Uncle Tom”, a fictional character from the band’s Gravity MV, are in store at the launch.
Play 25 Hours will arrive at Fuse Pop-Up Experience on the second floor of Siam Center and at www.fuseshops.com from Aug 11 when other acts to launch the next capsule collections are also to be revealed. — Pimchanok Phungbun Na Ayudhya
This source first appeared on Bangkok Post Lifestyle.