Ten years later I was in the summer palace of King Ramma five of Thailand on the ultimate fashion location shoot. The client was fashion house FlyNow , with clothes in the style (loosely) of Gustav Klimt. Mere mortals are forbidden access, of course, but somehow there we were. I still to this day don’t know who pulled the strings. There was only one stipulation: don’t look in the king’s mirror. It means certain death.
A charming superstition, perhaps, but there was nothing charming about the soldiers who trained their eyes on us the whole time.