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Marimekko wraps Bangkok sky train in its iconic Unikko print to celebrate 70th anniversary
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he Finnish floral brand Marimekko has since 1951 been on a mission to bring joy to people’s ever yday lives with bold prints and colors. In celebration of the brand’s 70th anniversar y, Marimekko has in collaboration with Bangkok BTS launched the “Bringing joy to everyday life’ campaign which features an entire BTS sky train wrapped up in Marimekko’s signature print. The campaign aims to bring brightness to every station in Bangkok and the train is covered in the brand’s well-known and well-beloved orange Unikko design. Unikko, the poppy print, is one of the brand’s
most recognizable designs created by Maija Isola in 1964, who came up with it as a challenge to the brand’s founder Armi Ratia’s ban of floral patterns back in 1964. It is not the first time Marimekko brings joy to Bangkok. Last October, the Finnish brand brightened up Bangkok’s monsoon season by wrapping a BTS sky train in a blue hue of its unique Unikko poppy print which was the brand’s fall/winter 2020 color palette.
Swedish Gaston Luga now available in Thailand
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he Swedish brand Gaston Luga, producer of quality backpacks and accessories inspired by Scandinavian design and living, is now available in Thailand. According to an introduction by the Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok, Gaston Luga does not only provide beautiful design and highquality products, but Gaston Luga has also committed to sustainability. The brand does not use Animal-based materials, they use plantbased leather with some of the products being made from vegan apple leather, a biomaterial created from discarded apple skins.
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Gaston Luga also implements Low Impact Packaging in the form of boxes from FSC-certified paper printed with soy ink, making them eco-friendly and recyclable as well as biodegradable plastic. Moreover, Gaston Luga has been a carbon-neutral organization since 2019 in partnership with Carbon Footprint Ltd to offset their carbon footprint by donating to the Escarpment Environment Conser vation Network (Esconet) to suppor t projects to restore local forests.
