Forget the Red and the Black. Right now, it’s all about the Red and the Blue. The 2012 elections will mean a full year of face-off between the red Republicans and the blue Dems. All of a sudden, the red and blue Masai prints at Thakoon and Kim Jones’ men’s collection for Louis Vuitton are [...]

Using hand-sewn Mexican fabrics supplied by Museo Textil De Oaxaca, the designers behind 12 different lines, including Eddie Borgo, Wes Gordon, Thakoon, and Michael Bastian, have each created limited-edition pieces for tonight’s Project Paz gala and silent auction in New York, which will raise money to promote peace in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. “It was important [...]

Resort shows brought a tropical breeze, and editors went bananas for Hawaiian prints. But lately, street-style stars have been stepping out in a different motif: paisley. The retro seventies pattern has long been synonymous with names like Etro, but Oscar de la Renta (Fall ‘11), Carven’s Guillaume Henry (Fall ‘11), and Chloë Sevigny for O.C. [...]

Thakoon Panchigul is the latest designer to jump on the digital bandwagon. As of today, fans of the designer’s eponymous label will be able to get their hands on the signature printed dresses with the click of a button at his new e-commerce site, Thakoon.com, designed by the fashion-favorite Web gurus at Tony King’s King [...]

Gossip Girl returns to the air tonight at 9 p.m., and sources tell Style.com it’ll have a new guest star: contemporary artist Laurie Simmons (right, with gallerist Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn). The “Pictures Generation” photographer and portraitist appears on the show to create a commissioned portrait of the van der Woodsens—one that, one presumes, will hang [...]

Thakoon Panichgul hit London this week for a splashy soirée at Soho House Basement and a trunk show for Net-a-Porter’s VIP clients. But it wasn’t all work and no play. Panichgul found a little time to explore the city. (There he is, above, tryinig on the local accouterment in East London.) He sent back the [...]

Brilliant, traffic-stopping red has made a big splash on the runways these past few seasons, lending flash to everything from suiting to coats. This season saw the trend extend to footwear, too. At Thakoon (left), Alexander Wang (center), and Marc Jacobs (left), vibrant, slightly pointed pumps and booties got an added jolt from a wild [...]

The gridiron faceoff was fierce yesterday for Super Bowl Sunday, but so was the catwalk competition at ACW Worldwide’s model call for the casting agency’s Fall 2011 New York shows. The lithe and the leggy arrived to try for a spot on the New York runways (ACW casts Thakoon, Y-3, and Jen Kao, among others), [...]

Golden girl Elle Fanning may be only 12 years old, but her star is on the rise. Sofia Coppola’s already proclaimed her affection for the young actress, and now the Mulleavy sisters of Rodarte have cast her, too: In a Rodarte-costumed short film, The Curve of Forgotten Things, by director Todd Cole. It premieres officially [...]

Close readers of the Q&A with Tony King that went live on this blog earlier today will have noticed a screenshot of Thakoon Panichgul’s Web site. But anybody tempted to visit left disappointed. The designer’s site is in the middle of a major overhaul (courtesy of King & Partners); it’s scheduled to relaunch on [...]