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Bangkok Fashion City was a campaign under the Ministry of Industry of Thailand. This 1.8-billion-baht program's purpose was to establish Bangkok as a regional fashion hub and eventually as a world fashion leader on the level of New York, Paris, and Milan. [1] The project was initiated by the Thaksin administration in 2003. It was scrapped in 2006. [2]

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References

  1. "Bangkok Fashion". Archived from the original on October 4, 2006. Retrieved October 31, 2006.
  2. Wongsamuth, Nanchanok (2014-02-05). "Bangkok Fashion City to hit runway again". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 19 September 2015.