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Byline: Jane Herman
People have been sending Thakoon Panichgul a lot of flowers lately: bouquets of cabbage roses, hydrangeas, and peonies. Maybe that's why flowers have turned up all over his spring collection, from the blown-out floral prints to, perhaps most interesting, a concept for a new silhouette. "The peonies are so tightly packed, they take days to bloom," Panichgul says. "My pieces sort of open like that."
In his August presentation to the Fashion Fund judges, Panichgul gave each panelist a hand-cranked music box. As the models entered in dresses charmed with sweet, offbeat details-painted seams, a knotted neckline, those pink peonies-they played a twinkling Moonlight Sonata. "That music-box sound instantly takes you back to that sense of discovery that's such a big part of fashion and being a girl," Panichgul ...