{"id":188,"date":"2014-12-01T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/?p=188"},"modified":"2015-01-11T20:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T18:00:36","slug":"chu-suwannapha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Chu Suwannapha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-189 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/designer_ChuSuwannapha.jpg\" alt=\"Chu Suwannapha\" width=\"635\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/designer_ChuSuwannapha.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/designer_ChuSuwannapha-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/designer_ChuSuwannapha-200x110.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/designer_ChuSuwannapha-620x342.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/>Chu Suwannapha is a familiar face on the South African fashion scene.\u00a0 Known for his instantly\u00a0recognisable prints and colourful dress code and large spectacles, Chu is launching his menswear collection at SA Menswear Week AW 2015. \u00a0 What must be one of the most anticipated designers, Chu brings over 25 years of his fashion experience to this collection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Originally from Thailand, Suwannapha was a fashion designer and business owner manufacturing and selling under his own CHULARP fashion brand. \u00a0 He then went onto Paris as both a stylist and studying fashion at ESMOD PARIS. \u00a0 From there, Suwannapha came to South Africa and for many years was the fashion director at Fair Lady magazine.\u00a0 Presently Suwannapha is the fashion director of You, HuisGenoot and Drum magazines for Media 24.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His keen eye for fashion has also seen Suwannapha as stylist on a number of campaigns for brands such as Levi\u2019s, Woolworths \u201cProudly South Africa\u201d, Brides &amp;Home, GQ and many more. \u00a0 Also having recently won the award for Most Innovative Fashionista at the SA Style Awards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chu Suwannapha will be showcasing at SA Menswear Week on Saturday 07 February at 7pm to launch his CHULAAP label to the South African fashion media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chu Suwannapha is a familiar face on the South African fashion scene.\u00a0 Known for his instantly\u00a0recognisable prints and colourful dress code and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-designers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/designer_ChuSuwannapha.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menswearweek.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}