Thai fashionista recreates designer gown with bags of prawn crackers

A 28-year-old Thai woman has become an Internet sensation overnight after she posted her own version of a high fashion gown that's made from bags of prawn crackers.

Sine Benjaphorn is a plus-size model and owner of a clothing store in Ratchaburi, a province west of Bangkok, Thailand. The gown that she chose to replicate was a peach layered gown that Thai actress, Chompoo Araya wore to a L'Oreal event during the recent Cannes Film Festival.

According to Benjaphorn, she was inspired after seeing pictures of Araya and went out to buy bags of prawn crackers -- a popular savoury snack -- to sew them together. The end result from the colour down to the layering and wavy texture is uncanny. 

After posting a side-by-side comparison of her posing in the gown on the streets with Araya's red-carpet picture on May 12, Benjaphorn's post quickly went viral on Facebook, with many netizens praising her for her talent -- both in design and comedy.

"I’m shocked. I never thought this many people would share my photo. And I’m on every news channel," Benjaphorn told reporters.

This peach gown is not Benjaphorn's first attempt at recreating a celebrity's iconic look. She has also dressed up as Katy Perry in her "Roar" music video and Claire Danes in her much-talked about Zac Posen gown that she wore during to this year's Met Gala.

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