"Designer Clothes"

You would be hard pressed to find a pair of latest season Diesel jeans less than £100, the stuff you get in TKMaxx are usually very large side and stock of a few seasons old. This's no different from YSL, CK in TKMaxx also.

Jeans over £100 I think are in designer territory, I've seen Diesel, Energie jeans limited edition selling at £200-250, the average price is about £120-150.
A lot of "true" designer brands have their own spin-off brands like Dolce Gabbana have D&G, Roberto Cavalli have Just Cavalli and so on to compete with top "high street" brands like Diesel, Energie, Sixty, G-Star ...

I'd say the term designer is associated with anything a bit expensive nowadays with or without taste! Designer coffee, anyone? :p For the ridiculously expensive and exclusive stuff like Viktor & Rolf or Channel, it's not "designer" but "haute couture" where a normal looking jacket can cost £5000:D
 
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richard104 said:
I am getting confused. You go into some shops and they seem to have endless ranges of designer clothes (i.e levis, fred perry) then when you go onto said designer websites there are hardly any of the clothes that you saw in the shop? I have noticed this especially with "Designer Retail Outlets", are they selling fakes or do the companies just not advistise all of there lines??
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Seasons/Lines.

You have an annual Spring/Summer collection and then an annual Autumn/Winter collection.

The items you see in high street stores and retail outlets are from last season etc. and which is why they aren't advertised on the brand's site. Of course, you have to remember that the fashion industry like to promote their lines a season in advance. So around this time they'd be showing off their 2009 Spring/Summer collection.

Wow, I feel so gay knowing this.
 
toucam said:
I'd say the term designer is associated with anything a bit expensive nowadays with or without taste! Designer coffee, anyone? :p For the ridiculously expensive and exclusive stuff like Viktor & Rolf or Channel, it's not "designer" but "haute couture" where a normal looking jacket can cost £5000:D
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erm no

if you pick it up off the shelf and pay for it then that 5 grand jacket from channel isn't "haute couture" - it is simply a designer jacket the french term for stuff off the shelf is "prêt-à-porter "

if you take your girlfriend to Paris and you ***** 50 grand so she can get fitted for a particular dress (rather than buying one off the shelf) then that is "haute couture"

As for the people in this thread classifying Diesel et al as being 'designer' because they cost a little bit more than primark own brand - aside form the fact that yes they were, like primark clothing, designed by a designer - it is a farily standard highstreet brand tbh....

IMO for designer think Prada, Armarni, etc..etc..

haute couture is stuff that has been fitted to the owner, often a one off and pretty exclusive - the people who buy haute couture are known by the fashion houses
 
Chanel* ;).

As for Diesel, they have a 'high street' range but also a more exclusive range. The same does go for G-Star as well. :) So it is tricky to place it into 'designer or not' whereas Prada/Gucci are far easier.
 
dowie said:
erm no

if you pick it up off the shelf and pay for it then that 5 grand jacket from channel isn't "haute couture" - it is simply a designer jacket the french term for stuff off the shelf is "prêt-à-porter "

if you take your girlfriend to Paris and you ***** 50 grand so she can get fitted for a particular dress (rather than buying one off the shelf) then that is "haute couture"

As for the people in this thread classifying Diesel et al as being 'designer' because they cost a little bit more than primark own brand - aside form the fact that yes they were, like primark clothing, designed by a designer - it is a farily standard highstreet brand tbh....

IMO for designer think Prada, Armarni, etc..etc..

haute couture is stuff that has been fitted to the owner, often a one off and pretty exclusive - the people who buy haute couture are known by the fashion houses
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True but haute couture "can be used only by firms that meet certain well-defined standards", it's French but not limited to France but also Milan, London, New York etc...

What I mean is the extra exclusive brand like Chanel, Dior or V&R can be classified as such whereas Diesel, G Star and the likes can't be. But it's true that haute couture is mainly associated with custom-fitted fashion mostly with Italian or French brands, the same probably can't be said for Savile Row :D
 
I really dont get this whole "Designer" thing, surely everything is designer at some point as it was "Designed" by a fashion designer. I think it should be "Branded" rather than designer.
 
It's not what you wear, it's how you wear it.

I buy quality, regardless of price and label. Last night I wore True Religion jeans with an M&S Shirt. Who gives a fudge what it says on the label.
 
spoonz said:
It's not what you wear, it's how you wear it.

I buy quality, regardless of price and label. Last night I wore True Religion jeans with an M&S Shirt. Who gives a fudge what it says on the label.
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Absolutley, BHS currently do some great quality flatfront trousers.
 
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