9,000 vendors
26 acres
nearly half a million visitors each weekend.

Jatujak is clearly the mother of all Bangkok markets. But to label Jatujak as simply a market is to do it a disservice of epic proportions.

While it is indeed a shopper’s paradise, Jatujak is also a microcosm of the entire country. On any given weekend, Thailand’s rich and Thailand’s poor, Thailand’s old and Thailand’s young, Thailand’s urban and Thailand’s rural, Thailand’s tourists and Thailand’s Thais can all be found mingling, meandering and merging in the stifling, clogged lanes of Jatujak Market.

While one end of their massive amalgam of humanity throbs with rural farmers hawking their earthen wares, the other pulses with urban youths sitting in cramped cafés sipping their afternoon away.
It is this uncertainty, this chance of a treasure around every corner that makes Jatujak what it is.

Wandering down the twisting, turning aisles of clothing, crafts, furniture, flowers, antiques and animals is such a mesmerising delight that overheated explorers can hardly fathom making an escape.

Welcome to Jatujak, where uncertainty is all that is certain.

Extracts with permission from the book Bangkok Fashion Now & Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Street
www.bkkfashionnow.com

The following quote is from D. McLane, from the International Herald Tribune:

Chatuchak is the hub of grass-roots Thai fashion move,ent that draws its energy not from international labels but from Thai designers. They are often self-taught and come armed with a concept, a strong aesthetic sense, and enough start-up cash to rent one of the nearly 15,000 closet-sized stalls spread over Chatuchak's 14 hectares, or 35 acres.
A stroll through Chatuchak is like a fashion treasure hunt. You elbow your way slowly through its narrow lanes, called "sois", passing entire shops devoted to a single item.i[