The awards are about to start after a flurry of late arrivals: Daphne Guinness with Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, Zac Posen with a twirling Doutzen Kroes and Thakoon Panichgul who asked how early arrivers Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer and Lauren duPont looked in his pleated minidresses from resort. (The latest of them all [...]

A group of Angelenos will be celebrating Earth Day in style at tonight’s inaugural “Out of the Ordinary” event at L.A.’s vintage mecca The Way We Wore. Hosted by Dita Von Teese and Debi Mazar, the party and fashion presentation will showcase 32 revamped looks from the likes of Juan Carlos Obando, Kevan Hall, and [...]

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Woke up after a restful night of sleep at the Four Seasons. Thank God, since it will be a long day today, after a very long day yesterday with four interviews and portraits. Even though it’s unseasonably chilly, I decided to go for a swim. It was really windy out; there were riptides in [...]

Many of fashion’s chattering classes panned Michelle Obama’s election night dress from Narciso Rodriguez’s Spring 2009 collection. But that clearly didn’t deter the soon-to-be First Lady from giving Rodriguez another go. In fact, Rodriguez made two custom pre-inaugural looks for Mrs. Obama—the purple coat she wore to the morning service at Arlington National Cemetery and [...]

We just got a first look at Thakoon Addition. It turns out that the designer kept his promise of the annex collection hewing closely to the runway but with an emphasis on customer favorites. That means loads of cool, wearable dresses in the wide array of super-chic prints—including some lovely micro-florals and a subtle micro-leopard—that [...]

Does anyone remember what anybody wore to the Oscars in February? Doubtful. But Sarah Palin’s rimless specs? A phenomenon. This year, politics shouldered aside pop culture for pride of place in the global imagination, and, like it or not, fashion came along for the ride. Thakoon Panichgul, of course, likes it just fine: In August, [...]

“I needed character and I needed a mix,” Lauren Goodman of Domino explained of her decision to feature Christian Louboutin, Michael Bastian, and Vanessa Bruno, among others, in the September fall fashion issue. “I was looking for designers who have a vision. Not just their merchandise, but how that really relates to everything that they [...]

There’s more to a good pair of shades than, um, meets the eye–especially if they’re made by Thakoon Panichgul, the designer explained at Thursday night’s launch of his new sunglass line at Soho’s Ilori boutique. For the lenses, the designer favored pinkish brown and a smoky clear shade that “sort of gives the face air.” [...]