🇹🇭Kad Kokoa 📍Bangkok When it comes to Thai craft chocolate, @kadkokoa_chocolate is definitely the first shop that appears in my head. I have been their loyal customer for 2 years already. Locally sourced and made with heart, their artisanal products are all worth the try. My favorites are definitely the Napolitains, Coffee Nibs Chocolate, and Chocolate Cashew Nut Spread. ❤ No additives nor even cocoa butter is added. Only organic cane sugar is mixed to their cocoa and that's what makes me fanatical about them. Every bite is intense and pure. 曼谷也有厲害的巧克力業者，這家知名的Kad Kokoa所用的可可豆是來至泰國不同府，非常值得推薦! 他們家的巧克力本身完全沒有加任何奶油或添加物，只有單純的有機蔗糖跟純可可，這也就是為何我從他們開業到現在都是他們的忠實顧客。 我獨愛黑巧克力，越高濃度越愛，但這家的最高的72%已經像85%，沒有其他多餘的奶油香真的差很多。 他們家的品質都非常的優，不論是巧克力片，飲品，糕點，到週邊商品都很值得入手，不論是自己吃或是送禮都很得體，連包裝都很繽紛討喜。 如果你也愛巧克力，下次來曼谷別忘了來支持一下泰國當地的農民!!🥰

모든 것에 감사합니다...사랑해 💜 “Don’t blame yourself. It’s okay to lean back when you’re tired. If you’re tired, I can become your pillar of strength. This is the reason why I started making music. I hope our music can become your little source of strength.” ✨ These words comforted me and made me hope for better days ahead when I was a low point in my life, living in a foreign country by myself, relapsing from stopping medications, out of a job, burning my savings, running away from the pressure and expectations in the city I’m from, grieving over losing my great love and thinking of ending it all. Yoongi’s “The Last” made me weep for days—words I wanted to say, all encapsulated in a song. You can judge me for being a “fanatical teenage girl” but you don’t have any idea what they mean to me and how they were the ones that helped me get out of a dark time in my life—when no one else did. So yes, I will shameless flex my love for them. Thank you world for giving us BTS. 🥰 #HappyYoongiDay #HappyBirthdaySuga 🐱🍯✨

This is the second post regarding Tonari no Otakara Antique Hunter @tonari_no_otakara . I first conceived of this store when I attended ComplexCon @complexcon for the first time and encountered a new movement there. At the first ComplexCon in 2016, I was taken back by people’s feverish enthusiasm toward me on the show floor. The visitors welcomed me with almost fanatical excitement and most people seemed to know both my face and my work; they recognized and understood me and my work even more than the visitors to my solo exhibition at a museum. Seeing the interest of people who are into street fashion in my art, with their almost explosive desire to acquire them, I seriously wondered what in the world could be the reason. Vinyl figures and prints were flying off the shelves. People were buying such items with a similar level of enthusiasm as they showed at the sneaker booths, grabbing what they could. They ran around the show floor carrying my work along with boxes of sneakers. What was happening? I wondered. One possible explanation I could think of was that I had become a familiar face in the world of street fashion as a result of my work with Kanye West. In 2007 I designed the cover for his album Graduation, and a year later I made the animated music video for Good Morning, one of his singles. Perhaps this relationship got imprinted in the minds of today’s sneakerheads and they recognized my existence by association: Kanye West —> Graduation album cover —> Good Morning music video —> the creator who made them. Kaye West took interest in me in the first place because, I am told, he had seen my collaboration with Louis Vuitton @louisvuitton in 2003, the multicolor monogram, in the Vuitton store in Chicago. I also heard that his friend and manager Don C @chicagodonc ,as well as Virgil Abloh @virgilabloh , were there with him, which prompted them eventually to foray into mainstream street fashion. 👉 Continued on next page