Comments on: seven types of fashion designers

By: final fashion » click click – 20-02-13

final fashion » click click – 20-02-13 — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:41:55 +0000

[...] is the most interesting, forward ‘young’ designer working now, belonging in the same category as Ford, Jacobs and Lagerfeld when it comes to being able to talk as well as design. Here, he [...]

By: Fashion Incubator » Blog Archive » What kind of designer are you?

Fashion Incubator » Blog Archive » What kind of designer are you? — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:18:24 +0000

[...] learn and how to go about doing it. Caveat: There are other lists of designer types (I like the one Danielle wrote). Since I write mostly about designers starting clothing lines, my list describes those on an [...]

By: final fashion » the true fashion feud – words vs. images

final fashion » the true fashion feud – words vs. images — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:12:56 +0000

[...] rare fashion designers that do have a way with words possess a kind of superpower as brand builders. Coco Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, and Tom Ford are the outliers – fashion designers that can turn [...]

By: final fashion » the indefinable decades

final fashion » the indefinable decades — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:28:43 +0000

[...] The 1990s, the decade that defies easy visualization, was fashion’s intellectual phase. It evolved from a straightforward business into something much more complex and self-aware. For the first time it was the subject of rigorous critical and academic attention, and schools became very important and influential. Thus, the dialogue between designers and media became much more sophisticated. Braindead branding was abandoned and designers began to challenge the boundaries of fashion using narrative and spectacle. [...]

By: final fashion » inappropriation – why fashion is a cultural scavenger

final fashion » inappropriation – why fashion is a cultural scavenger — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:01:05 +0000

[...] grew up and are still located. The Mexican border is close to home, and their natural proclivity as narrative designers towards creating sad beauty explains why they were drawn to Juarez because of, not in spite of, its [...]

By: final fashion » why fashion bloggers are more like designers than critics

final fashion » why fashion bloggers are more like designers than critics — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:56:20 +0000

[...] bloggers are brilliant at expressing themselves through images and words – just like the most successful designers are. Media is not used to translate reality in an informative way, instead it is used to bring their [...]

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:58:14 +0000

Elle – totally agree Christobel Balenciaga fits in the Technician category.

Glad you enjoyed Ana!

By: Ana

Ana — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:22:31 +0000

Bookmarked with a capital B!

I love the Narrators.
Also the artisans.

I respect the Technicians, but usually look more to what hey have inspired than to what they themselves have created.

Something along those lines applies to the Conceptualists, too.

This all applies in the broadest of senses – there are probably designers who appeal to me within all the types.

By: Elle

Elle — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:55:23 +0000

What about Balenciaga in the Technicians category?

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:52:45 +0000

Thank you Yvonne. I did go to fashion school – for design – Ryerson University in Toronto. A very technical/commercially focused program.