Who are your least favorite designers?

[Squizree]

^You should feel even more dirty for considering her as a designer.

 

[KhaoticKharma]

I'm gonna have to go with the Etro and Missoni crews. Not that I have anything against the Boho crew, it's just that I feel like the put out the exact same collections every season. I know the prints are what makes those houses, but sometimes it's just TOO repetitive for my liking.

 

[ILucas]

Cavalli
Stella McCarthney
Michael Kors
Badgley Mischka
and all celebrity designers

 

[fincher]

Definitely Roberto Cavalli

 

[CharlottefromCA]

Armani.. he is a legend of the 80's, 90's.. now he is just.. stale

 

[helmut.newton]

I will never ever understand the hype surrounding Thomas Maier for Bottega Veneta and Christopher Decarnin for Balmain.

The former never ceases to bore me with his uninspired and monotonous design aesthetic (if you can really call it that) and the latter just amazes me with the amount of tackiness and kitsch he injects into Balmain.

Balmain is what I would call the manifestation of pretentious design. I find everything he designs to be incredibly over-thought and forced; no matter how much Vogue Paris protests to it being 'effortless'. And the prices? DOUBLE that of Balenciaga!! Ridiculous, no?

 

[Crying Diamonds]

Designers like Cavalli and Valentino I really don't like.
They create the sort of typically pretty, girly clothes that I hate.

 

[ponytrot]

Chloe is beyond hideous at this point in time, everything is grandma frumpy. Kitsch almost, but in a most awkward way.

Last Balmain collection underwhelmed me, it looked tacky and ridiculous (made even more pretentious with their sky high price points)...i just don't understand the hype- jewl encrusted zebra stripes?

I like some of Marchesa, but overall it's just regurgitated fairytale OTT red carpet stuff and rather cliche elements from the other designers. If it wasn't for Harvey Weinstein's power, that label would be utterly ignored.

 

[ponytrot]

Jeremy Scott's fashion is so repulsive.

Don't even get me started!!

and also House of Holland. They had their t shirt thing, now i just wish they (along with Fug-ness) would Go. Away.

i don't consider celebrities real designers (ie. LC, Jlo, shudder..Jessica Simpson etc) so thankfully i can disregard them in this thread.

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

Michael Kors is so plain

 

[holaloha]

This may be a long one:

Anna Sui (looks like I could get it at Target)
Calvin Klein (Francisco Costa is minimalism to the max, which i hate)
Diane Von Furstenberg (ehhhh)
Dries Van Noten (dont even get me started)
Fendi (Never been much of a fan)
Giorgio Armani (He needs to retire)
Givenchy (Turned goth)
Hussein Chalayan (I just don't understand the man)
Jean Paul Gaultier (Every collection I hate him more)
Jil Sander (It's like the designer doesnt try)
Marni (Same as Dries Van Noten)
Missoni (Do the same thing every collection: Crazily matched knits)
Ralph Lauren (He used to have talent... what a shame)
Sonia Rykiel (She annoys me so much)
Tommy Hilfiger (Used to have talent, just like Ralph lauren. One of those american brands thats just getting plain boring)
Yves Saint Laurent (I'm sorry to say it, but Stefano Pilati loves the color black and to do weird stuff with it. I dont know, occasionaly theres a good collection, ill give him that)

Sorry if i sound harsh. haha

 

[balmain1914]

I agree some from your list:
Diane Von Furstenberg
Ralph Lauren
Tommy Hilfiger
Anna Sui
Yves Saint Laurent (Stefano...)

 

[TianSoFine]

Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton; Every collection I've ever seen can be described with three of the six following words/phrases:
1.boring
2.tacky
3.trendy to the point of which I want to rip apart the entire American Apparel inventory
4.completely ripping off another designer
5.completely cheap-looking
6.looks like it's designed for 5-year-old girls

 

[ColorScreams]

Everyone is so vicious haha :b.

I dislike quite a lot of designers.
but my lips are sealed~ heh

 

[Unknownpleasures]

Karl Lagerfeld,Michael Kors and Miuccia Prada

 

[offtodreamland]

Dan and Dean for D squared

 

[MyNameIs]

For me, it's not so much that I dislike some designers. Some aesthetics are not my thing, but I can always find interesting/appealing pieces or collections even from the least likely houses. There are some that I generally like but are going through a really weird/bad period, ie, Missoni, Chloe, Dior, etc.

What bugs me most is the phenomenon of overrated designers. Up and coming (Alexander Wang, Rodarte, Christopher Kane) and established (Prada, Balenciaga, Givenchy), but no matter what they do it's automatically considered genius because of the label. Just looking at style's (or whoever's) Top Ten list of collections each seasons, and it's always the same tired choices. I wish people were more objective when it comes to appreciating something. Like it because it's great not because of where it comes from. I mean lets be honest, half the things Prada puts out wouldn't even warrant a second glance if came down the runway at say, Isaac Mizrahi or Max Azria.

 

[Phuel]

The worst offenders on my permanent hit list (in no particular order

Frida Giannini: What Tom Ford has so elegantly and so meticulously created for Gucci, this woman has torn down and put up her throwaway version; like the cheerleader teenage sister tearing down her older brother's refined taste for fine art and cinema and putting up posters of tacky popsters like Kate Perry, Rihanna, Pink... This is Frida's impact on Gucci to me.

Dean & Dan Caten : People will argue that they cut a really mean jacket-- but so what? All established designers cut a mean jacket. It's about creating an image, a brand identity, and these guys have created one of the tackiest image of gay men. It's like Fire Island on repeat at their presentations. Just because they hire the most beautiful models and most popular photographers to promote their name, their tackiness still manages to shine through.

Roberto Cavalli: Much like the Caten brothers, Cavalli has has kept the Eurotrash aesthetic alive and well. Yes, much like DSquared, the brand identity is all about the beautiful people. It's flashy and glitzy, and it's very fashion 101 and extremely shallow and superficial. Perhaps that's why all the Guidos and Guidettes are fans?

Karl Lagerfeld: His designs are so disposable to me. He is all about surrounding oneself with the most skilled seamstresses, tailors, and the most luxurious of materials, as well as top models, and excessive, million-dollar sets. With that kind of support that only money can buy, anything will look impressive-- maybe that's why when he works with denim,the humblest and most utilitarian of materials, it looks so trashy, because how can one glam up denim?

Alexander Wang, Philip Lim, Proenza Schouler, Jason Wu...: More hype than anything to me. Their designs are like, to use musicians as a comparison, the B-sides or demos of greater artists.