Thakoon Panichgul

Filed under: Accessories , News , Designers & Brands Designer Thakoon Panichgul. Photo: Getty Images. Thakoon Panichgul, the genius behind Thakoon , is branching out into fine jewelry. The ready-to-wear designer (and Michelle Obama favorite) has signed on to design for Japanese jewelry company Tasaki . One of the largest jewelers in Asia, the company came looking for Panichgul . "They scoured for me and searched me out," Panichgul told StyleList. "My PR office in Japan called and said this fine jewelry company wanted to speak to me and only me. They saw a synergy in what we do," he explained. It was a ... Read Full Story

Thakoon Panichgul DALLAS & KOBE, Japan, Nov 9, 2009 / FW/ — New York-based designer Thakoon Panichgul who is known for his playfully romantic creations that ooze with understated elegance has been named as Creative Director of TASAKI, the high-end Japanese jeweler. Founded in 1954, Tasaki Shinju is one of the very few companies that have continued to cultivate, manufacture and sell pearls. In 1995, TASAKI became the only company in Japan that earned the rights to purchase rough diamonds from the De Beers Group. It then established a diamond grinding and polishing system at its own factory. Today Tasaki is a leading jewelry ... Read Full Story

November 9, 2009 Elizabeth Monson Thakoon Panichgul has been a fashion world favorite since he started his eponymous line, Thakoon , in 2004. This has really been a breakthrough year for the young designer, though; mainly thanks to Michelle Obama wearing one of his dresses to the DNC on the night that Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President, and then another one of his designs to the G20 summit . We will now have more ways than ever to wear a piece of Thakoon as Panichgul was recently named the Creative Director or TASAKI , a Japanese fine jewelry line, and announced a ... Read Full Story

Designer Thakoon Panichgul backstage at his fall 2009 runway show. Style.com’s Laird Borrelli said of designer Thakoon Panichgul’s first collection in September 2004: “In just ten pieces, Thakoon Panichgul put himself on the map with an aesthetic that’s forward-looking, respectful of the past, and not at all vintage.” And in those three points captured the tone of every collection to follow. The designer has built his name on pieces that are deceptively simple and fluidly contradictory: looking to the future yet inspired by the past. Born in Thailand, raised in Omaha, and educated (in business) in Boston, Thakoon moved to New York where he ... Read Full Story

On Friday, February 20, the last day of Fashion Week, designer Thakoon Panichgul of the label Thakoon collapsed into an egg-shaped chair at Bergdorf Goodman's white-tableclothed seventh-floor restaurant for tea with the Daily Transom. The fashion industry cafeteria of sorts had been offering an elaborate afternoon tea service all week courtesy London's Berkeley Hotel (it was called it Pret-A-Portea, not to be confused with midtown sandwich chain Pret-a-Manger). Fashion Week had been a long slog, said the designer. "I'm soooo tired. I can't catch up on sleep." He was wearing the same red plaid shirt he'd been wearing all week, he said, paired with ... Read Full Story