Thakoon Videos

Runway, backstage, and front-row footage from the shows.

Here's an incredible clip I found. If you love fashion shows, vogue, models and the madness of it all, give it a watch! Life meets fiction ... Devil Wears Prada? It's sensational ... :)) Btw! I heard The September Issue is coming to theatres soon! Can't wait to watch it! :) Enjoy!Author: flingybee Tags: The September Issue Vogue Fashion Designers Catwalk Models Devil Wears Prada Meryl Streep Anna Wintour Grace Coddington Anne Hathaway Jean-Paul Gaultier Karl Lagerfeld Thakoon Movie Posted: 28 August 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

Backstage at Thakoon, makeup artist Diane Kendal was creating a soft, smoky, smudgy eye with an emphasis on the eyebrows. New Yorks Aja Mangum got some tips on how to re-create the look at home; watch the video to learn how to wear your makeup next fall. Author: NewYorkMagazine Keywords: nymag new york magazine beauty aja mangum diane kendal nars thakoon john wilson fashion week Added: February 18, 2009

Runway, backstage, and front-row footage from the show. Author: style Keywords: Style studio fashion party designer model clothes Thakoon Added: February 18, 2009

Thakoon Panichgul started in fashion as an assistant at Harper's Bazaar writing photo captions. "I was like, 'I don't know if this is for me,'" he told New York fashion director Harriet Mays Powell when she stopped by for a studio tour. He quit in 2004 and, just four years later, saw his red-cabbage-print dress on Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention. "I didn't know that she was gonna wear it that night. When I saw it on TV it was the most magical thing," he said. Watch the video to hear more about Michelle's dress and see an up-close look at Thakoon's new collection. Author: NewYorkMagazine Keywords: thakoon panichgul fashion studio clothes clothing dresses color runway nymag.com Added: January 21, 2009

http://www.instablogs.com/ Satyam fraud One feels terribly ashamed of Mr. Ramalinga Raju, for the amount of damage he has done to the Indian IT industry is simply un-imaginable. Astonishingly the news broke out this morning but Mr. Raju and his CFO s are not behind the bars. In fact, the company which audited their accounts all these years plus the chartered accountants should be banned from their profession. My heart goes out to the employees of the company but didn t they act stupid by believing in sales which they knew never existed. Anyways the cat is out of the basket and those who have invested their hard earned money in big names with huge assets and apparent profits should begin exercising caution. Sectarian riots on Muharram, Pakistan The 9th and 10th day of Muharram are sensitive days of the Islamic month of Muharram in Pakistan especially in the NWFP province where a number of districts are prone to sectarian violence. The north western district of Hangu is particularly infamous for sectarian riots. Violence has broken out in the town more than a dozen times since 1998. This year the government has prepared a special security plan to prevent any sectarian outbreak in the town as well as curbing the threat of terrorists who are believed to have plans for using the sectarian tensions as a precursor for their own malign designs. Army and frontier constabulary have deployed security teams at all the strategically important spots in and around town. A strict curfew has been enforced in Hangu since last evening January 6 in order to prevent the vulnerable exposure of any religious procession. The curfew will hold till the 10th of Muharram which falls on the 9th of January. Hundreds of people have fled to neighboring town and cities in order avoid any emergency in the city of Hangu. Fashion and Michelle Obama Michelle Obama it seems is the right person to rejuvenate the US fashion industry. She could potentially do what Jackie Kennedy did; bring about a new awareness and a fresh outlook. During the election campaign she signaled an interest both in looking stylish and also in advancing the cause of American fashion and those who design and make it. She wore off-the-rack stuff from J. Crew and, at times controversially, designs by fashion darlings like Isabel Toledo, Thakoon Panichgul and Narciso Rodriguez. She brought to the campaign a sophisticated approach to high-low dressing, a determination to adapt designers work to suit her self adding jewelry or sweaters or wearing flat shoes with sheaths or even altering dressmaking details. That s how Michelle Obama is, a woman without any pretence and a working mother with kids who knows the big designer names but also shops at J. Crew and the Gap. http://www.instablogs.com/

http://www.instablogs.com/ Satyam fraud One feels terribly ashamed of Mr. Ramalinga Raju, for the amount of damage he has done to the Indian IT industry is simply un-imaginable. Astonishingly the news broke out this morning but Mr. Raju and his CFO s are not behind the bars. In fact, the company which audited their accounts all these years plus the chartered accountants should be banned from their profession. My heart goes out to the employees of the company but didn t they act stupid by believing in sales which they knew never existed. Anyways the cat is out of the basket and those who have invested their hard earned money in big names with huge assets and apparent profits should begin exercising caution. Sectarian riots on Muharram, Pakistan The 9th and 10th day of Muharram are sensitive days of the Islamic month of Muharram in Pakistan especially in the NWFP province where a number of districts are prone to sectarian violence. The north western district of Hangu is particularly infamous for sectarian riots. Violence has broken out in the town more than a dozen times since 1998. This year the government has prepared a special security plan to prevent any sectarian outbreak in the town as well as curbing the threat of terrorists who are believed to have plans for using the sectarian tensions as a precursor for their own malign designs. Army and frontier constabulary have deployed security teams at all the strategically important spots in and around town. A strict curfew has been enforced in Hangu since last evening January 6 in order to prevent the vulnerable exposure of any religious procession. The curfew will hold till the 10th of Muharram which falls on the 9th of January. Hundreds of people have fled to neighboring town and cities in order avoid any emergency in the city of Hangu. Fashion and Michelle Obama Michelle Obama it seems is the right person to rejuvenate the US fashion industry. She could potentially do what Jackie Kennedy did; bring about a new awareness and a fresh outlook. During the election campaign she signaled an interest both in looking stylish and also in advancing the cause of American fashion and those who design and make it. She wore off-the-rack stuff from J. Crew and, at times controversially, designs by fashion darlings like Isabel Toledo, Thakoon Panichgul and Narciso Rodriguez. She brought to the campaign a sophisticated approach to high-low dressing, a determination to adapt designers work to suit her self adding jewelry or sweaters or wearing flat shoes with sheaths or even altering dressmaking details. That s how Michelle Obama is, a woman without any pretence and a working mother with kids who knows the big designer names but also shops at J. Crew and the Gap. http://www.instablogs.com/

F/W 2008 runway show-with brand new pop-up facts

"We are absolutely invested in emerging talent. Part of us has always been about celebrating young designers," Marka Hansen, president of Gap North America recently told WWD about the chain’s decision to bring in upcoming designers to collaborate on a limited edition collection of white shirts. As part of their partnership with the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund to promote fresh design talent, Doo-Ri Chung, Thakoon Panichgul, and Kate & Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte have all been hired to create white shirts - a Gap staple for 35 years – retailing between $68 to $88 as part of the Gap Design Editions. "Throughout history people have always tried to redesign the classic white shirt — that's what made it so exciting,” says Chung about her shirtdress inspired by iconic American sportswear designer Claire McCardell. The ad campaign in which the designers appear with their designs - the only way to discern who designed which pieces - was shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, and stars fashion model A-listers like Stella Tennant, Liya Kebede and Carmen Kass. The campaign will run in high profile outlets like The New York Times, WWD, and the May cover of Vogue. "Vogue has a long tradition of supporting young talent — in particular, our local talent — to secure a brilliant future for American fashion,” adds Vogue’s Anna Wintour. “And Gap's Design Editions project…will give a boost to the three CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners, and bring their wonderful designs to a much bigger audience." However, whether the Gap Design Editions collaboration helps the ailing Gap out of its prolonged slump remains to be seen. "Such short-term design initiatives are positive indications of their intention to improve, but it will probably require at least two to three years of reexamination and re-engineering before Gap can reclaim some of its former status," opines Arnold Aronson of Kurt Salmon Associates. "They must revision the business in terms of merchandise thrust, fashion sensibility, depth and breadth of assortments, size and number of stores." Moving toward less expensive, faster fashion is probably the solution, agrees Mark Montagna, an analyst at C.L. King and Associates. "They need to define their market, which is what they are working on. I believe they need to buy with greater breadth and less depth and run it more like the H&M and Forever 21 where you get faster fashion. Their strategy of buying deep and narrow just encourages customers to wait for the sales…Gap should be doing what H&M does — get a collection by someone like Madonna or Karl Lagerfeld. These are people America has heard of." Fashiontribes Daily Lifestyle & Fashion Blog