Who are your least favorite designers?

[BaroqueRockstar]

giorgio armani (i think i've seen enough pajama pants variations for the rest of my life)
versace (ok, i liked spring 07 but besides that all of donatella's other collections did nothing for me)
matthew williamson
dsquared
elie saab
ralph lauren
michael kors
marc jacobs too

 

[kasper!]

giorgio armani.....

boring as always and he is overrated in my country which sucks >_<

 

[poptheglock]

celeb designers, louis vuitton, dsquared, galliano, anna sui and versace!

 

[belletrist]

-Prada (EWWWW) and its little sister Miu Miu (even more shameful!)
-Everything that was touched by the (dirty) hands of Galliano (Dior, Dior HC, his own trash)
-Almost everything that comes from Italy (they should stick to cinema, food, and opera...) including Dolce&Gabbana and D&g (no difference), and Dsquared
-Tom Ford. Do a gogo-boy career, but do not try to make something intelligent, you just can't.
-Louis Vuitton - Pure trash. Woe on them.


-Perhaps the too "conceptual" brands (Carpe Diem, LMaltieri, Lumen & Umbra, Label Under Construction). When the concept is more interesting than the clothing itselves, when everything is made to add a pseudo-hype (to increase the price), it's not longer understated, it's stupid (my own opinion)

 

[juliapiquet]

^^ rebel to fashion!!!!!!!

haha kidding

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

with the exception of Marni - everything coming from Italy in regards to womenswear.
Prada - trite and lacking any signs of originality or innovation.
Marc Jacobs - overhyped and like Muiccia, lacks any signs of originality and blatantly steals the ideas of others.
Most of 'THE' NY designers - namely that horrid Kors man, The Proenza boys for their irrelevance, Zac Posen for his banality and lack of taste, Marchessa, and many, many others
HEATHERETTE (!!!)
John Galliano
Karl Lagerfeld
All of these useless and degrading celebrity-pinned lines, esp. the Olsen's and Kate Moss's lines since they are seen as 'superior' in some unfathomable way.

 

[telepathicgoat]

I agree 100%

This is why so many Fashion designer are not in business. They get to carried away with the artistic aspect only.

ow please

im not talking about that at all
if ur gonna be into arts, and ur in it for the money, im sorry thats just pathetic

i live and work in paris, for one of the biggest fashionhouses around today, and do you think that all they think about is money??

please, and i dont mock anyone.

all im saying is that there seems to be a big difference in motive between american designers and european designers

and im not talking about theatrical graduate-collections, thats not what i mean by schools in europe AT ALL

my friend is starting a new department at parsons, and she wouldnt agree more. in america its all about bussiness, so are the graduation-collections and so on....

(of course im not generalizing, but to make a point, i may sound like i am)

And if you are a fashiondesigner you dont have to be "in bussiness" to be a designer. bleh

 

[telepathicgoat]

Fashion is a business.
Why do all these designer spend so much money on their shows, handing out free clothing to celebrities, and ads. They expect to get money back.

It would be nice to do something entirely b/c you love it but mortage, bills, and maintaining an expensive lifestyle (like some of the designers) require lots of money and they need to get the money some place.

It would kind of be naive to assume that designers go into the business b/c they love clothes and clothes only. Most of them go into the business b/c of their love of clothing, their love of glamour, and the possiblility of making huge amount of money.

I don't think it is wrong to go into the business with the idea of making a lot of money as long as they have the talen to back it up.

AND THATS THE REASON WHY SO MANY PEOPLE DISLIKE AMERICAN FASHION

ta-daa!

 

[telepathicgoat]

Why start my own label? when I can go join some else's mess. I don't need your motivational speech. A school in Europe will nor increase a skill nor make you a better person. Fashion school is simply Fashion school. It doesn't matter where you, it's how much you get.

Mass production keeps a label a float. Not how great you can present a "theatrical" collection, or how prestigious a label is. EVERYTHING in Fashion is about Money. Boring or Exciting!!

Feel free to mock me and say what ever you want.

lol u sound like that grey woman on project runway, she was funny!!!!

 

[gallianoboy]

If you go on the Neiman Marcus website under DSQUARED menswear they are charging $525 for a simple hooded sweatshirt and $185 for a ringer t-shirt..U GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!!!

 

[belletrist]

European fashion (including French) is globally pathetic, and shallow too...
Perhaps even shallower than american fashion (most of them don't took themselves too seriously, whereas Prada and Dior use some mysterious kabbalah to make people think they are doing art). In term of design and quality, I still prefer Proenza Schouler to the aforementioned behemots.

Do you think Louis Vuitton and Dior fell like they have a messianic mission? Do you think Gucci is the epitome of elegance and design? Of course not.
Money money money. And money doesn't go well along good design and quality. Hopefully, some brands don't look at it, but they are relatively smaller...

And yes, a designer without funds is a future drama. Remember Jil Sander and Helmut Lang?

I still wonder how Ann Demeulemeester is still in business, even if she has a huge cult following...

 

[juliapiquet]

If you go on the Neiman Marcus website under DSQUARED menswear they are charging $525 for a simple hooded sweatshirt and $185 for a ringer t-shirt..U GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!!!

That's true D² is horrifically expensive, a rip-off.. But I it anyways

 

[Squizree]

^^I hate Prada too, and I think that Muiccia is deeply unoriginal, but how can u just say that she uses "mysterious kabbalah to make people think she's doing art". Thats a very arguable point.
And of course Gucci is not the epitome of elegance. There is no universal epitome of elegance. There is no one designer or label that is accepted as the epitome of design. If there was, things would be very boring.
Its the fact that we all have different tastes that makes fashion as great as it is.
And u cant really blame designers for focusing on money. Because ultimately fashion designers are designing for a living.

 

[rangerrick14]

Anything from NY, LA or Italy but my favorites to hate are Carolina Herrera, Oscar de la Renta, Heatherette, Betsey, Anna Sui, Zac Posen, Blass, Valvo, Armani, Chaiken. I think NY and LA are designing in a bubble for their boring celeb clients and ladies who lunch so that they are not challenging the ideas of beauty and aesthetics. You might call PRada ugly but for the sheer idea of being different she is brilliant. this whole enviroment make designers like Isabel Toledo and Doo ri not get recognition for their sheer brilliance in cut and drape and crap like Heatheret and Oscar can make boring glam dresses and sell them all. There are such few American designers who can say something on a global scale it's sickening.

 

[BaroqueRockstar]

^i forgot about oscar. his collections honesty make me angry.
i used to like chaiken, when they were more suits-heavy, but their latest stuff isn't very impressive at all.

 

[C0UTUR3_WH0R3]

I have Two!! Heatherette and Betsey Johnson!(I love them as people though).

Oh I love Heatherette and Betsy Johnson. I love their look, so eclectic.

 

[Mota3089]

AND THATS THE REASON WHY SO MANY PEOPLE DISLIKE AMERICAN FASHION

ta-daa!

But then yet again they can't seem to get their hands off American Fashions.

IT IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!! Even if it isn't mentioned in the Design Studio.

You seem very threaten by someone who has a whole different point of you. You kind never seems to amaze me. Your comments will never change my views. End of story!

 

[Spike413]

But then yet again they can't seem to get their hands off American Fashions.

IT IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!! Even if it isn't mentioned in the Design Studio.

You seem very threaten by someone who has a whole different point of you. You kind never seems to amaze me. Your comments will never change my views. End of story!

I'm curious to know if you've ever designed anything yourself. If you have then perhaps you'd feel differently about insisting that design is only about money. What about the designers (mostly non-American) who struggle to make money but continue to design because they love it? What about stories like Galliano and McQueen who were designing in relative poverty because they had something to offer the fashion world.

I just really think it's terrible that you seem to think that monetary success=talent.

 

[C0UTUR3_WH0R3]

I can't really say who my least favorite designer is because I love them all. Each designer, whether they are American, European or whatever brings something different to the table. In my opinion fashion would be boring without them all, in all their good and bad variances. I can tell you however who my favorite is...Alexander McQueen...oh yeah.

 

[Mota3089]

I'm curious to know if you've ever designed anything yourself. If you have then perhaps you'd feel differently about insisting that design is only about money. What about the designers (mostly non-American) who struggle to make money but continue to design because they love it? What about stories like Galliano and McQueen who were designing in relative poverty because they had something to offer the fashion world.

I just really think it's terrible that you seem to think that monetary success=talent.

Galliano and Mcqueen were just craving the need to get noticed. Look at them now. You think there success is attributed to just their talents?

I don't think so.