Ponytail Journal

We couldn’t be more thrilled to share with you the long-awaited W’menswear Autumn Winter 20 collection - ‘The Radical Spirit’ This season we took a field trip to the Golden Triangle, where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar meet at the confluence of Mekong rivers. It was an adventure wher..…

The remote mountains of the Golden Triangle; where Burma, Thailand, and Laos meet, were once filled with red and white poppies grown for opium. Up till the end of the 20th century, it was known as the world’s second-largest opium producing region after Afghanistan. During that time, opium had funded…

With the sun still yet to rise, we loaded up the van and began making our way up north to a section of Mekong River where Thailand meets Lao and Myanmar. Known as Golden Triangle since the 1970s, the region has experienced a long and turbulent history of poppy cultivation, opium smuggling to proxy w…