“Oh, I feel both happiness and sadness because I stopped singing a long time ago. So what I felt inside was ‘Rita, you are old. They [the fans] don’t want you anymore and they put you aside. You must live like this till your last breath.’ So when Ko Thit (composer Mg Thit Minn) called me, I was quite pleased,”

“People hardly know the values of the old works and they don’t know how to preserve them,” he said, adding, “the price of paintings changes over the time and the prices of the ones I bought in the past have increased many times now. So, I hope this exhibition can show people how valuable old paintings are and why they should keep and collect them,”

A male model lounged on a chaise longue in a “glam rock” patchwork coat with a feather boa, inspired by France’s veteran rocker Johnny Hallyday, while another slumped in a sumptuous patchwork dressing gown made up of vintage Italian silk ties cut up into hundreds of pieces with frayed edges in a design dubbed “the hangover.”