Word: panichgul
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...Michelle might not yet know what she will wear when her husband is sworn in as the 44th President of the U.S., the fashion world has been feverishly wagering on who will create her Inaugural wardrobe. Odds favor Chicago-based designer Maria Pinto, 51, an Obama favorite, and Thakoon Panichgul, 34, a Thai-born designer whose name went viral when Michelle wore his red floral-print dress on the final night of the Democratic National Convention. Other possible contenders include Jason Wu, Narciso Rodriguez and Isabel Toledo. Some insiders venture that Obama might even play the low-key populist card...
...someone with authority and style that people can look up to," says Panichgul. "It's a new way of looking at fashion. It's about women who are real and confident and in a position of power, as opposed to the celebrity thing, which is so false. But this is about confidence, power and intellect. It's about something more real...
...live in West Chelsea, and it's my favorite thing to walk the streets and go in and out of galleries, just walk around the neighborhood. New Yorkers are very neighborhood-centric, and that's what they like to do," says 34-year-old fashion designer Thakoon Panichgul. Born in Bangkok, Panichgul?who extends his collection this month with a secondary line available at Barneys New York, Dover Street Market, London, and Lane Crawford, Hong Kong?moved with his family to Omaha, Neb., at age 11, where early glimpses of fashion magazines and the Roman Polanski film Rosemary's Baby...
Even antipurple people have gotten sucked in by the color's zeitgeistiness. "I always hated purple, and I hated people who were into purple," says Manhattan-based designer Thakoon Panichgul, a favorite of Michelle Obama's who in December will launch a collection at Target. "But it has an element of angst that I gravitated to this season...
...already filling up for the fourth and final creation of Lancôme's Pout-à-Porter fashion-lipstick series. The first of the collection, a dazzling red by designer Behnaz Sarafpour, sold out before it even hit stores. Two more wildly successful shades later, up-and-comer Thakoon Panichgul takes his shot with Pixel Pink, a sheer raspberry, in stores this month...