Rock ‘n’ roll street fashion and an over the top dance act made this year’s Pinktober breast cancer awareness charity event hard to forget.
The Hard Rock Café Bangkok and Bangkok Young professionals (BYP) celebrated women at the event on Oct. 9 that raised over THB104,000 for the Queen Sirikit Breast Cancer Foundation. Two checks of THB20,000 were presented to the breast cancer foundation on behalf of the Hard Rock Café, Asia Pacific University, and Garuda Indonesia.
The all-pink event even saw straight dudes donning rosy shirts in the name of healthy boobies. Pink-themed cocktails by Vice Versa Cocktail Catering were made with pomegranate, lychee juice, and vodka and topped with pink rose petals.
A catwalk emerged from the staircase all the way to the main stage as volunteer models paraded 10 winning designs from the Hard Rock Café DIY T-shirt competition. The models trotted down the runway to the rock songs of live band, Origins.
One of the models, Didi Pg was wearing a stunning black number made from a Hard Rock shirt. Designer Praneetsin Muangchuin from Bangkok University talked about the concept, “Black Rose represents sustainability and eternity like the concept ‘Rock never dies.’ The name describes its powerful soul. If you compare a woman to a black rose, she’s charismatic but with the strength of thorns as her self-defense. It has beauty and delicateness, but also thorns.”
Providing the ultimate female-empowerment entertainment of the night was the all-female (sort of) Waacking dance trio dressed in 10-inch heels and flashy pink outfits. Drag queen Miss Pangina Heals elaborated on why they chose to dance to Michael Jackson’s “Black or White”: “The song celebrates adversity and diversity. It brings people together to beat this bastard that is cancer.”
“These events are usually boring, but we heard there would be street dance that’s why we came,” said one wide-eyed spectator.
