The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress Arrives

SCBX NEXT Tech, 4th Floor, Siam Paragon, Free entry

Some exhibitions arrive, drop a polite curtsy and vanish. Not this one. The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress, a 16-metre garment stitched from the flags of countries that still criminalise same-sex relationships, lands in Bangkok for its first Southeast Asian appearance, co-hosted by the Dutch Embassy. The maths keeps shifting when it debuted in 2016 the dress held 78 flags, but legal reforms in places like Singapore have already pulled a few off the dress and replaced them with rainbow panels. That shrinking count is the quiet punchline of the whole project, evidence that fashion and law can occasionally have a productive conversation. The exhibition, set inside the gleaming tech-forward halls of SCB Next Tech at Siam Paragon, coincides with the anniversary of Thailand’s marriage-equality legislation and the 25th anniversary of the Netherlands’ own equal-marriage law. Details at siamparagon.co.th.