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Rokh was also an old Céline alumnus, like Do. I am a huge fan of all the designers you are comparing Rokh with and I don't really agree. I think he has a very recognizable style and while you can compare his work to Dion Lee's and Do's himself (fail to see the David Koma similarity at all), it is all still fairly different. These are all Helmut Lang/Margiela heirs and I doubt it is anything like dated. In fact, they are very contemporary (which is why H&M hired him) and are the future of fashion.Something rather Peter Do-esque about these, with some earlier Dion Lee or David Koma. Looks pretty dated.
Now is a moment to test my theory that is the correlation between H&M collabs and the Gautlier collabs. Probably pointless but we shall see. Balmain, Simone, Rabanne...
Of course everyone has references, otherwise new collections wouldn't exist and those we love couldn't! Frankly, it's one of the things I enjoy about observing fashion, seeing and pulling apart the references because seeing how they're used or harnessed is a way to perceive the designer's point of view. I'd say with the Koma similarity it is more of the sensibility when it comes to garment "slickness". The dresses have that streamlined and rather aerodynamic look on the body but not in a Chalayan way. I see that in a lot of Koma's work and his Mugler, which there are touches of in this in my eyes.Rokh was also an old Céline alumnus, like Do. I am a huge fan of all the designers you are comparing Rokh with and I don't really agree. I think he has a very recognizable style and while you can compare his work to Dion Lee's and Do's himself (fail to see the David Koma similarity at all), it is all still fairly different. These are all Helmut Lang/Margiela heirs and I doubt it is anything like dated. In fact, they are very contemporary (which is why H&M hired him) and are the future of fashion.
It's unfortunate that people in this forum are so allergic and reactionary to newer talents and never fail to draw comparisons, etc. Pretty sure the designers these same people now praise got the same kind of bashing in their beginnnings. Everybody has influences because no one lives in a vacuum, to pretend anyone is excluded from having influences is a lie a lot of people seem here seem to like to think.