Greatest Designers of All Time

[Afreekan]

Please post a list of greatest designers and labels of all time. Here's mine

Designers
1. Yves Saint Laurent
2. Coco Chanel
3. Christian Dior
4. Muicca Prada
5. Tom Ford


Labels
1. YSL
2. Prada
3. Chanel
4. Dior
5. Jil Sander

 

[kit]

APOLOGIES FOR BEASTLINESS , BUT HAVE WE NOT HAD THREADS ON THIS TOPIC , TOO TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION , ON D'S&C's BEFORE .


Please do a search , Afreekan .

 

[Lena]

its ok kit, we havent had the combo before,
so we can let it be for all the new members joining tFS

lets be sweet to afreekan

 

[kit]

its ok kit, we havent had the combo before,
so we can let it be for all the new members joining tFS

lets be sweet to afreekan

POINT taken , Lena , it must be the heat getting to me , I'm usually so tolerant of others , demanding so much in that direction , myself .

Sorry Afreekan

 

[gallianoboy]

How could you put Christian Dior (the man himself) as one of the top designers of all time. Aside from his "new look" he only lasted at Dior from 1947-1952 (his death). He is a great designer but by no means one of the greatest. He could have gotten there but he didn't have enough time....at least in my opinion!!!

Top designers of all time: 1. Coco Chanel
2. Yves Saint Laurent
3. Cristobal Balenciaga
4. Karl Lagerfeld
5. Givenchy


Top designers CURRENT LIST: 1. Karl Lagerfeld
2. Marc Jacobs
3. John Galliano
4. Miuccia Prada
5. Alber Elbaz

 

[kit]

Top designers of ALL time .
Yves Saint Laurent
Claude Montana
Rei Kawakubo
Yohji Yamamoto
Issey Miyake

Top labels today

Issey Miyake Mainline
Comme des Garcons
Yves Saint Laurent
Hermes
Dior Homme

Actually , I'm trying to look at both womenswear and menswear , but I cannot but veer a little to the latter in my choices .

Hope this adds to the gaity of nations .

 

[fuchimama]

Coco Chanel... no, no, don't believe the hype! Coco was a con. She suppressed the feminine form and did little more than put a label on shoddy sportswear and ugly dresses. Plus, she was horrible to her mannequins.

10 best past:
Rudi Gernreich
Bill Gibb
Callot Soeurs
Ossie Clark
André Courrèges
Mariano Fortuny
Bonnie Cashin
Madame Gres
Charles James
Jean Desses

Present:
Alaia
Rei Kawakubo
Henrik Vibskov
Martin Grant
Olivier Theyskens
Nic Ghesquiere
Gaspard Yurkievich
Maurizio Altieri
Miuccia
Yegor Zaitsev

 

[blackrose]

Top Five (Past)

1. Coco Chanel
2. Christian Dior
3. Elsa Schriapelli
4. Madame Gres
5. Yves Saint Laurent

 

[ChagueCouture]

Hi everybody from phoenix az!
heres my first post and contribution... my favorite designers



1. Erte
2. Poiret
3. Adrian
4. Edith head
5. Givenchy
6. Coco Chanel
7. Christian Dior
8. Emilio Pucci
9. Yves Saint Laurent
10. Tom ford

 

[Lena]

please kindly stay on topic..
give your all time TOP designers
and all time TOP labels

 

[Lena]

DESIGNERS
*Balenciaga
*mme Gres
*Mariano Fortuny
*Sibylla
*Coco Chanel
*G. Beene
*Rudi Gernreich

LABELS
*Biba
*Etro (perfumes)
*Hermes
*Bless
*Marni

 

[Afreekan]

APOLOGIES FOR BEASTLINESS , BUT HAVE WE NOT HAD THREADS ON THIS TOPIC , TOO TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION , ON D'S&C's BEFORE .


Please do a search , Afreekan .

please forgive me, I am new. I should have known that a topic like this would have been discussed before. To respond to Galianoboy's comments about Dior; He gave us the New Look, what more can you ask for. If the Beatles only gave us SGt. Pepper's or Nas only gave us Illmatic, they still will be considered one of the greats. Nahmean?

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Coco Chanel... no, no, don't believe the hype! Coco was a con. She suppressed the feminine form and did little more than put a label on shoddy sportswear and ugly dresses. Plus, she was horrible to her mannequins.

Please have a prize.

Other than that; Kit's list seems very good, cut Dior Homme for me though...

 

[VICTIM]

Designers
Coco Chanel
Christian Dior
Yves Saint Laurent
Vionnet
Vivienne Westwood

Lables
Dior
Gucci (tom ford era)
Biba
Dior Homme
Chanel (or any other house associated with Lagerfeld)

 

[fouroclock]

Designers:
Coco Chanel
Jean Paul Gaultier
John Galliano
Miucca Prada
Tom Ford

Labels:
Dior
Chanel
Versace
Prada
Givenchy

 

[VICTIM]

actually i should probably add to the best lables list VERSACE (when gianni was designing)

 

[kit]

Other than that; Kit's list seems very good, cut Dior Homme for me though...

Actually , I thought long and hard over the last one and only put in DIOR HOMME , faut de mieux .

I think that I will take a chance on infuriating Arturo 21 , and nominate one of the staple labels of my fashion life STILL -

' Marithe et Francois Girbaud ' . The REAL one from Paris :-

http://www.marithefrancoisgirbaud.com/


NOT the overseas watered -down , licensee rubbish , like TWENTY - Barcelona , etc .

 

[tricotineacetat]

good god, I find nothing worse than Girbaud, from their technofibres, patchwork details and gimmicks, I find it terribly dated... (they´ve also been starting to copy from designers like McQueen)

I find it quite hard to name a list "of all times", many of the legendary names would come to mind for me... for sure Balenciaga for his structured silhouettes, the Japanese (especially Yohji Yamamoto) and the inventor of the Bias-cut, Madeleine Vionnet. The list goes on, although I wouldn´t necessarily find Christian Dior a very important innovator (as well as Hubert de Givenchy or Marcel Rochas) - apart from Yves Saint Laurent who was a pioneer with his women´s tuxedos.

However, here´s my greatest designers of today list (in no order

- Olivier Theyskens
- Hussein Chalayan
- Junya Watanabe
- Hedi Slimane (apart from the silhouette, it´s the textiles that are subversive in men´s fashion)
- Nicolas Guesquière
- Hamish Morrow
- Sophia Kokosalaki (for her instantly recognizable hand-finished, draped clothes - if only she would find a manufacturer that can actually *produce* all this...)

I never really understood the point about Alber Elbaz, though - I find a lot of what he does for Lanvin a bit too easily made from a technical point of view - classic garments with frayed edges in luxe fabrics, what´s the deal about this?

 

[kit]

good god, I find nothing worse than Girbaud, from their technofibres, patchwork details and gimmicks, I find it terribly dated... (they´ve also been starting to copy from designers like McQueen)

I find it quite hard to name a list "of all times", many of the legendary names would come to mind for me... for sure Balenciaga for his structured silhouettes, the Japanese (especially Yohji Yamamoto) and the inventor of the Bias-cut, Madeleine Vionnet. The list goes on, although I wouldn´t necessarily find Christian Dior a very important innovator (as well as Hubert de Givenchy or Marcel Rochas) - apart from Yves Saint Laurent who was a pioneer with his women´s tuxedos.

However, here´s my greatest designers of today list (in no order

- Olivier Theyskens
- Hussein Chalayan
- Junya Watanabe
- Hedi Slimane (apart from the silhouette, it´s the textiles that are subversive in men´s fashion)
- Nicolas Guesquière
- Hamish Morrow
- Sophia Kokosalaki (for her instantly recognizable hand-finished, draped clothes - if only she would find a manufacturer that can actually *produce* all this...)

I never really understood the point about Alber Elbaz, though - I find a lot of what he does for Lanvin a bit too easily made from a technical point of view - classic garments with frayed edges in luxe fabrics, what´s the deal about this?

Fair does , Trico

I'm talking a fashion life , not just a moment . Girbaud represents the ultimate in French chic , no less and no more .

Always super jeans , with the little touches that mark out a label's particularity .

I really miss their , ' Compagnie des Montagnes et des Forets ' leathers from the 80s , and they also did some super leathers for ' Ruffo ' , around the same time .

I think that they have started doing leather again , but I've not yet seen it .

Loking foward to doing so .

 

[Rachelle]

Designers:

John Galliono
Karl Lagerfeld
Jimmy Choo
Marc Jacobs
Monique Lhuillier

Labels:

Hermes
Fendi
Dior
Chanel
Luella