Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garcons for H&M Designer Collection

[Scott]

^its so utterly dishonest...more explicitly disgustingly deceiving. just think for once i gave high-street a chance to win me over after my years and years of uncompromising principles against them. but the one that did seem to be the more genuine,in turn,does the same things the rest i detest do. i love rei and cdg but all this is really leaving a bitter taste for h&m now.

 

[lucy92]

i agree, i think h&M shows a lot of contempt for consumers.
they think the CDG, cavalli etc collections are "too good" for most of their customers
i think H&M just rests on its laurels the rest of the year. its as if they aren't even trying...for example, right now my H&M just has a lot of licensed apparel with pictures of catwoman, hello kitty, snoopy etc. its just garbage really. the rest of the clothes arent even cut well anymore. its just basics.

 

[Street_a_Licious]

guys, have you checked online? the austrian online store sells the collabo from the official release date on, so i guess other online H&M stores will offer that too. even if there's no store near you, you can still hope that the online store won't crash and get stuff there geez.

 

[BerlinRocks]

check www.hm.com They are not expensive after all, i was scared at first but after checking the prices are very cool!

don't agree .........
if the quality remains what h&m quality is, i think this is absoluty hors-de-prix .....
but if the quality is nice, i guess the price are ok .....

oh and i'm kind of disappointed by the menswear now that i can clearly see what will be sold .....
guess i won't spend that much money .........

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

I always thought that spotted cardigan was a shirt. it's really expensive! £39.99 but i'm going to get it probably. I'm deciding between the dark red colour and navy...

i think it will be nice, i haven't seen it yet, but it's a very old CDGCDG style cardigan, we used to have it in our store. It is printed in a CDG way.

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

don't agree .........
if the quality remains what h&m quality is, i think this is absoluty hors-de-prix .....
but if the quality is nice, i guess the price are ok .....

oh and i'm kind of disappointed by the menswear now that i can clearly see what will be sold .....
guess i won't spend that much money .........

...quality, i trust Rei Kawakubo, you will not get CDG quality of course nor HM...i am expecting something in between...

She did exactly what I was expecting so I am not dissapointed by the designs and women are by far the best!

 

[user500]

I wonder if you can buy the mens pants without the jacket...
It would be a chance to get a nice basic pant.
The boiled wool pants and suit is unfortunately only available in reduced quantity as the website says (which means it is only available in the flagship store of each country??).

 

[kahlilg]

ia gree .

 

[ElectricAlyce]

I didn't mean that is was H&M showing distain for their customers, although I think their thoughts on 'luxe' is getting a bit too much, showing how many stores are cut back. If this collection was as videly availble (and cheap) as "normal" H&M clothes, the collection would loose the momentum, and it would be nothing like owning a CDG-garment. I'm not saying this is H&Ms fault, and what I said may be true to Norway moreso than other places, I dunno. I think the real "criminals" here are the ones that go shopping at H&M regulary (not meant as a negative, I do that too), that will throw themselves at anything that is "designer", just like people pay for basic t-shirts that have a big "D&G" printed on the chest (at least almost). Let's face it, some of the CDG-pieces are just plain... wierd, at least by H&M standards, but time will tell if these pieces will be picked up by the fashion-avant garde that actually loves fashion but can't afford to pick up "real" CDG or if the hype will lead to what I mention "oooh this is a designer garment, I must have it".

 

[BerlinRocks]

I wonder if you can buy the mens pants without the jacket...
It would be a chance to get a nice basic pant.
The boiled wool pants and suit is unfortunately only available in reduced quantity as the website says (which means it is only available in the flagship store of each country??).

on the french h&m it says that the suit is sold as a suit ....
so you cannot buy the pants without the jacket.

...quality, i trust Rei Kawakubo, you will not get CDG quality of course nor HM...i am expecting something in between...

ok then

 

[Boluda]

I didn't mean that is was H&M showing distain for their customers, although I think their thoughts on 'luxe' is getting a bit too much, showing how many stores are cut back. If this collection was as videly availble (and cheap) as "normal" H&M clothes, the collection would loose the momentum, and it would be nothing like owning a CDG-garment. I'm not saying this is H&Ms fault, and what I said may be true to Norway moreso than other places, I dunno. I think the real "criminals" here are the ones that go shopping at H&M regulary (not meant as a negative, I do that too), that will throw themselves at anything that is "designer", just like people pay for basic t-shirts that have a big "D&G" printed on the chest (at least almost). Let's face it, some of the CDG-pieces are just plain... wierd, at least by H&M standards, but time will tell if these pieces will be picked up by the fashion-avant garde that actually loves fashion but can't afford to pick up "real" CDG or if the hype will lead to what I mention "oooh this is a designer garment, I must have it".

i think you're being a bit too harsh.
all the time people buy for the brand.
i come on this forum every day and people are all over louboutin, dior, givenchy, etc.
i mean is everyone here on this forum a millionaire?
for once H&M gives 'the common folk' the opportunity to own a designer item and that makes them criminals? come on now.

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

for once H&M gives 'the common folk' the opportunity to own a designer item and that makes them criminals? come on now.

i agree!!!!!!!!!!! the lowest price for a main line CDG jacket is 700++++
the dress\coat was like 3.000+++++, the shirts are 200++++.
its really nice that some people that cant afford to buy CDG everyday will have this opportunity...

oh, and about the designs, Rei Kawakubo chose her "best of" as she said in an interview, my opinion, the designs are very well chosen even if we were expectinng something more avant garde, but they are going to be worldwide and some people are not into creative fashion design and maybe even this might scared them....
B)

 

[ElectricAlyce]

i think you're being a bit too harsh.
all the time people buy for the brand.
i come on this forum every day and people are all over louboutin, dior, givenchy, etc.
i mean is everyone here on this forum a millionaire?
for once H&M gives 'the common folk' the opportunity to own a designer item and that makes them criminals? come on now.

no no no, you misunderstood what I meant. I certainly didn't mean that, I don't own anything from CDG but I got lots of H&M, I'm 20, student, I can't afford comme de garçons unless I don't want to eat for a month. So I'm not trying to be arrogant here, it is a GOLDEN chance for all the fashion-concious to dip into the world without having to rob a bank! What I was "attacking" was the... not-so-fashion-concious that normally wouldn't pick these pieces up if they DIDN'T have a CDG-label on it.

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

no no no, you misunderstood what I meant. I certainly didn't mean that, I don't own anything from CDG but I got lots of H&M, I'm 20, student, I can't afford comme de garçons unless I don't want to eat for a month. So I'm not trying to be arrogant here, it is a GOLDEN chance for all the fashion-concious to dip into the world without having to rob a bank! What I was "attacking" was the... not-so-fashion-concious that normally wouldn't pick these pieces up if they DIDN'T have a CDG-label on it.

you saying that there will be people buying CDGxHM without knowing who CDG is and because its the anual designer collection an becasue it will advertised everywehre?

I really wanna see those people, it will reeeeeeally funny!

 

[Boluda]

obviously the way it's marketed people are going to check out the CDG collection at h&m if only out of curiosity.

but id rather laugh at the - rich and not so rich - people who buy real designer wear, those that buy the brand or the logo but would not even get a second look at it had it got a different tag on it.

(eg this forum, it's ALL ABOUT brand)

i'm not crazy about everything from the CDG h&m collection, but i'll go check it out.....probably for the brand.

 

[softgrey]

boluda...i don't know what you are talking about...
this forum is not all about brands- designer or otherwise...

it's about indie designers, vintage, streetstyle, and mass market---
just as much as it is about designer..

if anything- the H&M thread and AA threads and the zara are some of the MOST popular in the shopping section...

this is definitely a VERY democratic place...
we have people from ALL over - all age groups, all income brackets, all different styles, etc..

sure- there are some people who are sucked in by the designer label...
but..most of us here know that the label is just a piece of fabric and we all pretty much agree that you cannot BUY style..

 

[Boluda]

^
yes, i agree with that. i was extrapolating.

 

[lucy92]

here are closeup images of the suit and the 350$ dress coat from nitrolicious.com. looking at the closeup images makes me think the construction of the dress-coat is not at all worth it. it looks laughable to me actually.

 

[kahlilg]

^yeah it does look kind of cheap.

 

[Tiffany7]

Im REALLY interested in the wool drop crotch shorts BUT theres no way. They dont sell online in the US & ebay will be double the price or more... SUCKS!!