Please help us name the top 10 fashion designers!

[chelmel]

What are the top 10 high-fashion designers of today? Do you think they influence the styles, or the consumers? Who decides if the fashions are "in"?

Please help us, this is for a school project. Thanks!

 

[matilda]

okej here's what i think:
Miuccia Prada
John Galliano
Marc Jacobs
Donatella Versace
Karl Lagerfeld
Stefano Pilati
Oscar de la renta
Donatella Versace
Nicolas Ghesquière
Valentino
(Pheobe Philo, I know she's quiting, but I just love her

 

[ETROsexualJ]

My Personal Favorites (I could never put them in any order, so this is just random off the top of my head)...
1. Marc Jacobs
2. Kean Etro
3. Giorgio Armani
4. Carolina Herrera
5. Oscar de la Renta
6. Tom Ford (techinally has no designs out AT THE MOMENT; but, I am shiver with anticipation over his upcomming men's line.)
7. Miuccia Prada
8. Stefano Pilati
9. Christopher Bailey
10. Karl Lagerfeld

 

[tricotineacetat]

I think you were rather asking who´s most influential no? I´d say these ones are, in no particular order:

- Nicolas Guesquière @ Balenciaga
- Alber Elbaz @ Lanvin
- Phoebe Philo (formerly) @ Chloe
- Hedi Slimane @ Dior Homme
- Marc Jacobs @ Marc by Marc Jacobs & Marc Jacobs
- Stefano Pilati @ Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche
- Miuccia Prada @ Prada
- Helmut Lang (formerly) @ Helmut Lang
- Yohji Yamamoto @ Y´s and Yohji Yamamoto
- Dries Van Noten @ Dries Van Noten

Not all of these are my favourites, but judging from what they have moved in mainstream fashion and other designers/labels right at the moment, I think they are the most influential ones right now. There are certainly other designers that I think would deserve equal recognition or that I think are certainly as fashion forward thinking as these ones listed, but just from an influential point of view, these ones are without doubt.

 

[Fade to Black]

My top 10, no order:

Christopher Bailey at Burberry Prorsum
Yohji Yamamoto at Yohji Yamamoto/Pour Homme/Y's/Y's for Men
Raf Simons at Raf Simons/Jil Sander
Hedi Slimane at Dior Homme
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana at Dolce & Gabbana
Marc Jacobs at Marc Jacobs/Marc by MJ and Louis Vuitton
Alber Elbaz at Lanvin
Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga
Alexander McQueen
John Galliano for Dior

I would say these 10 designers are the top 10 right now for their importance, influence, and overall relevance to today's fashion world and the fashion consuming population.

 

[ultramarine]

Quoting the fabulous Mariah Carey:
"No entiendo -tu pelo-"

Errm... the overall Top 10 fashion designers nowadays are:

*John Galliano // Dior
*Karl Lagerfeld // Chanel
*Miuccia Prada // Prada
*Marc Jacobs // LV - MJ
*Chris Bailey // Burberry
*S. Pilati // YSL
*S. Dolce & D. Gabbana // Dolce & Gabbana
*Phoebe Philo // Chloe
*Valentino // ditto
*Donatella for Versace (?)


Errm ... on another note .. Im surprised how many of the designers listed on my list I dislike :/

 

[snowqueen]

It depends how you are ranking ... i mean is it in terms or designs, quality and overall. Or is it the ones who have influenced trends and whats on the high street more. I mean if its influencial id say vivienne westwood would be near the top ... i mean look at the whole punk thing.

 

[jec]

mines not in order either:

karl lagerfeld-lagerfeld gallery/chanel
roberto cavalli
carolina herrera-Herve Pierre
phoebe philo-chloe
marc jacobs-MJ/LV
nicholas ghesquiere-balenciaga
viktor horsting/rolf snoeren-viktor&rolf
jean paul gaultier-jean paul gaultier/hermes
Tom Ford
christian lacroix

its sorta hard coz dere r otha realli good designers out dere but i spose dese r da 10 fav ones of mine.. nd plus.. its a realli limitd time frame othawise id put in lik cristobal balenciaga nd coco chanel nd all dat..

 

[softgrey]

hi jec...
weclome to tFS...
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we have many members for whom english is not a first language so this helps us communicate most easily...

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[*sayan]

Rei Kawabuko for COMME des GARCONS

 

[fashionista-ta]

I have eliminated a couple I don't particularly care for (Karl, Stefano) to get this down to 10, in no particular order ...

Miuccia
Marc
Nicolas
Christopher
Alber
Dries

and these who I believe haven't been mentioned yet (thought I'd mix things up a little & give some of the little guys a chance )

John-Paul Gaultier
Hussein Chalayan
Martin Grant
Oliviers Theyskens

As far as who influences fashion ... sure, both the designers and consumers do, as well as buyers, stylists, celebrities, fabric mills, and the fashion press. I don't think it's possible to say that any one entity or type of entity "decides" what's in fashion. If I want to wear something and can't buy it, there's a dead end. If designers, stylists, and magazines push something, and we all decide it's unwearable, they're SOL.

 

[bello123]

What are the top 10 high-fashion designers of today? Do you think they influence the styles, or the consumers? Who decides if the fashions are "in"?

Please help us, this is for a school project. Thanks!

matilda U GOT DONATELLA 2 TIMES!

 

[malú_pokhontas]

My favorities...

1. Marc Jacobs
1.Donatella Versace
2.Vera Wang
3. Giorgio Armani
4. Carolina Herrera
5.Valentino
6. Miuccia Prada
7.Roberto Cavalli
8. Miuccia Prada

Of course that these designers (and others too) influences the style,the consumers,the buyers,but fashion is not only this.Is what the people really wear,not shoes of $2000.Fashion is what you see in the streets,it's what you can do with your own clothes to look always different.

 

[matilda]

matilda U GOT DONATELLA 2 TIMES!

opps..one of them should be christopher Bailey

and i also forgot to ad, my list isn't my personal pics, it's just the top ten designer i think has the most influence

 

[fouroclock]

Karl Lagerfeld
Miuccia Prada
Stefano Pilati
Nicolas Ghesquiere
Michael Kors
John Galliano
Marc Jacobs

The first four names that I mentioned were the driving forces of the new conservative movement. Chanel tweed, high waists by Pilati. And even though they can't afford it, even 18 year olds are getting influenced by whatever these four designers put on the runway. Lagerfeld mixes vintage Chanel designs with light colours that younger people can buy, which is a pompromise for people who are getting older so that they don't look old but they don't look immature neither. Michael Kors can be the fifth member of that group, although he makes it more American and casual.

Galliano's there because he's cool.
Marc Jacobs for incorporating New York/Bohemian influences.

There are other movements going around, like hip hop, but I don't know who I can crown (or baseball cap) as the designer who polished it into a respected style statement.

 

[Yanka]

Marc Jacobs
Karl Lagerfeld
Valentino Garavani
Miuccia Prada
Hedi Slimane
John Gallian

 

[Salvatore]

Tom Ford
John Galliano
Miuccia Prada
Karl Lagerfeld
Alexander McQueen
Nicolas Guesquière
Alber Elbaz
Marc Jacobs
Stefano Pilati

 

[tricotineacetat]

I´d appreciate if some people would read the headline a bit more carefully... the question was not "who are your ten favourite designers", but who are the most influential ones. Thank you.

 

[Fade to Black]

I wasn't listing my 10 favorite designers, i'm listing those who I think are the most influential right now, in my opinion. I don't even like most of the designers I listed.

 

[tricotineacetat]

I wasn't listing my 10 favorite designers, i'm listing those who I think are the most influential right now, in my opinion. I don't even like most of the designers I listed.

Sorry if you felt addressed, but that girl that posted just quoted the ten that she listed as her favourites, thus I felt that someone must have misunderstood the topic.