At the age of 24 the young woman decided to move back to Thailand where a job in the fashion industry was in the offing. “A friend of mine told me that Louis Vuitton was looking for a person to fill the role of assistant to the general manager in Thailand. I was already interested in fashion and so I thought I would give it a try. I had no experience in the field but I wanted to know everything about it,” she says.
What followed was a four-year crash course in the apparel business, during which Pin also dipped a toe in public relations with Fendi, before she struck out on her own by opening PP Group. Her first role at her newly formed company was as brand manager of the Christian Lacroix and Emilio Pucci labels in Thailand. “I started PP Group in 2003 after the brands approached me to see if I was interested in becoming a distributor. Initially I thought it too big a project for a relatively inexperienced 28-year-old to handle, but it was such a good chance to really establish myself in the industry,” Pin explains. The fashion world in Thailand at the time was comparatively small and knowledge of distribution sources and deals only came about through word of mouth.