{"id":182676,"date":"2025-11-24T20:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/?p=182676"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:32:28","slug":"with-the-lingorm-duo-as-global-ambassadors-dior-capitalizes-on-the-thai-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/with-the-lingorm-duo-as-global-ambassadors-dior-capitalizes-on-the-thai-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"With the LingOrm duo as global ambassadors, Dior capitalizes on the Thai wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Dior Couture has just appointed two Thai actresses, themselves representatives of the T-pop craze, as global ambassadors. The duo, composed of Sirilak Kwong and Kornnaphat Sethratanapong, was also the big winner in terms of influence at Paris Fashion Week Spring\/Summer 2026.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Thai wave is stronger than the K-pop wave.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s what emerges from a report by Karla Otto, Lefty, and CTZAR, which praises two local celebrities with international appeal: Sirilak Kwong and Kornnaphat Sethratanapong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is precisely these <b>two actresses, aged 30 and 23 respectively<\/b>, who have <b>distinguished themselves in romantic series<\/b>\u2014the famous dramas\u2014that <b>Dior<\/b> has just catapulted to global ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Thai Drama Queens<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sirilak Kwong and Kornnaphat Sethratanapong,<\/strong> <strong>better known<\/strong> by their nicknames<strong> Lingling and Orm<\/strong>, are the <strong>new global ambassadors<\/strong> for the LVMH group&#8217;s fashion house.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_182680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182680\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-182680\" title=\"Christian Dior Thai ambassadors\" src=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christian_Dior_Thai_ambassadors-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Christian Dior Thai ambassadors\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christian_Dior_Thai_ambassadors-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christian_Dior_Thai_ambassadors-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christian_Dior_Thai_ambassadors-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christian_Dior_Thai_ambassadors-480x600.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christian_Dior_Thai_ambassadors-750x938.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christian_Dior_Thai_ambassadors.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Christian Dior Couture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The duo, nicknamed LingOrm<\/strong>, gained fame through series such as <strong><em>The Secret of Us<\/em> <\/strong>and <strong><em>Only You<\/em><\/strong>. They have thus established themselves as the<strong> spearhead of a rapidly developing genre, Girls Love (or GL)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the<strong> Karla Otto, Lefty, and SCZAR report<\/strong>, <strong>the two young women have even surpassed the famous representatives of Hallyu<\/strong> (the South Korean wave) and its K-pop stars<strong> in terms of engagement and media value<\/strong>, which the luxury industry had become completely enamored with since the post-Covid era, with BTS and BLACKPINK as its standard-bearers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>During the last Paris Fashion Week, the duo clearly dominated the media scene<\/b>. <b>Orm<\/b> took the lead with <b>$23.5 million in EMV<\/b>, followed by <b>Lingling<\/b>, who generated <b>$21.5 million in EMV<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Well-honed cosmopolitanism<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like Lisa, one of the star members of the South Korean group BLACKPINK\u2014herself of Thai origin\u2014<strong>Thai celebrities seem to be adopting one of the recipes for success behind the internationalization of the Hallyu wave<\/strong>:<strong> recruiting multilingual personalities<\/strong> capable of speaking to as many cultures as possible, particularly Asian ones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_182682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182682\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182682\" title=\"LingOrm profile Channel3\" src=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LingOrm_profile_Channel3.jpg\" alt=\"LingOrm profile Channel3\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LingOrm_profile_Channel3.jpg 900w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LingOrm_profile_Channel3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LingOrm_profile_Channel3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LingOrm_profile_Channel3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LingOrm_profile_Channel3-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LingOrm_profile_Channel3-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LingOrm_profile_Channel3-750x750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LingOrm_profile_Channel3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a9 <\/span>Channel3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For example, <strong>Lingling<\/strong>, born in Hong Kong to a Chinese father and Thai mother, is <strong>fluent in four languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and Thai<\/strong>. After starting out in the world of beauty pageants, she was discovered by Channel 3 and has built a solid career in the entertainment world. At the same time, she is known for being the <b>founder and CEO of the lifestyle brand <i>Always Wonder<\/i><\/b> and for having been an <b>ambassador for other brands such as <i>Hera<\/i>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For her part, <b>Orm<\/b> is a <b>nepo baby<\/b>. More specifically, she is the <b>daughter of actress Koy Narumon Phongsuphap<\/b>. She made her debut in 2019 in the series <b><i>Hotel Stars<\/i> <\/b>and has appeared in several Thai dramas, including <b><i>Game of Outlaws<\/i><\/b>. She is also the creator of her<b> own fashion brand<\/b>, <b><i>Keep Silent<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The two young women made their first appearance at a Dior fashion show last March<\/b> <b>before returning<\/b>, under the leadership of Jonathan Anderson\u2014the newly appointed creative director of the fashion house\u2014<b>in October<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The duo is set to star in <b>a new drama produced by Channel 3, adapted from the novel \u201cWad Fun Wan Wiwa.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_182683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182683\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182683\" title=\"Lingorm visual\" src=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Lingorm_visual.webp\" alt=\"Lingorm visual\" width=\"640\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Lingorm_visual.webp 640w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Lingorm_visual-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Lingorm_visual-480x599.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a9 Christian Dior Couture<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dior was one of the first French luxury houses to capitalize on the rise of the Thai wave (T-pop). The first step was taken in <b>2023<\/b> with the recruitment of actors Nattawin Wattanagitiphat, alias <b>Apo<\/b>, and Phakphum Romsaithong, known as <b>Mile<\/b>, as male ambassadors. That same year, Italian fashion house Gucci followed suit with Davika Hoorne as its first Thai ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read also &gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/gucci-chooses-davika-hoorne-as-its-first-thai-ambassador\/\">Gucci chooses Davika Hoorne as its first Thai ambassador<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured photo: \u00a9 Dior<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dior Couture has just appointed two Thai actresses, themselves representatives of the T-pop craze, as global ambassadors. The duo, composed of Sirilak Kwong and Kornnaphat Sethratanapong, was also the big winner in terms of influence at Paris Fashion Week Spring\/Summer 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":182675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"Dior Couture has appointed Thai actresses Sirilak Kwong and Kornnaphat Sethratanapong\u2014aka Lingling and Orm\u2014as its new ambassadors.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1964],"tags":[23233,24470,22546,24133,23244,23007,22970,22419],"class_list":["post-182676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brand-strategy","tag-apac-en","tag-communication-et-marketing","tag-dior-en","tag-divertissement-en","tag-egeries-en","tag-khol-en","tag-lvmh-en","tag-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}