Veeky Forums Designer Showdown

ITT vote on who you think should win each round and advance through the bracket

+1 raf

>putting virgil and jerry over based junya

fuck yo

I'm happy to add more competitors to the bracket

+1 demna
+1 raf
+1 virgil

i can't decide between yohji or ricks....

but imma go with ricks b/c i own more of his clothing.

Michele
Yamamoto
Slimane
Lorenzo

Raf vs yohji final showdown

OP here
I added 8 more designers to the bracket

Ackermann
Yamamoto
Margiela
Michele
Watanabe
...
Browne
Slimane

tom ford
tom ford
tom ford
tom ford
bottega veneta
berluti
tom ford
tom ford

I'll decide who moves on to the next round in the morning
Get your votes in while you still have time

HA
RO
MM
AM
JW
[Free space]
TB
RS

Basically copying you, but as much as I like Slimane, Raf is more interesting desu senpai desu.

Ackermann
Yamamoto
Margiela
Michele
Watanabe
...
Browne
Simons

ann demeulemeester
patrik ervell
helmut lang

retard

Haider
Rick
Margiela
Allessandro
Errolson
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Thom
Hedi

Demna
dick ovens
Hedi
dont care

He can't have every dope designer ever.

Slimane

ackermann
yamamoto
margiela
gvasalia
watanabe
abloh i guess
browne
simons

1: Haider
2: Rick
3: MM
4: Alessandro
5: Junya
6: Virgil
7; Thom Browne
8: Hedi

...

Demma
Yohji
Hedi

Alessandro
Rick
Hedi
Virgil (obviously)

this is so fucking stupid holy shit

Haider
Yohji
Alessandro
Virgil
Thom
Raf

Haider
RO
Karl
Demna
Junya
Virgil
Massimo Osti
Raf

Demna
Yohji
Raf
Virgil

Haider
Rick
Hedi

1
9
4
12
2
10
14
6

Ackermann
Yohji
Margiela
Demna
Hugh
Abloh
Thom Browne
Raf Simons

Ackermann
Yohji
Margiela
-
Junya
-
-
Raf

Haider Ackermann
Yohji Yamamoto
Martin Margiela
Demna Gvasalia
Junya Watanabe
///////
Thom Browne
Raf Simons

>"Virgil"
>Jerry
Can both of them lose?

This, daddy hedi always win

Alright I'm calculating scores RN so stop voting for the moment

Ok, numbers don't lie, Hedi is the winner.

+1 Maison Margie's
U guys need to understand that in the end of the 20th century, margiela completely changed the way people looked at fashion. Modern runway wouldn't even be the same if it weren't for mmm.

what you need to understand is margiela wouldn't have existed if yohji and rei hadn't completely fucking changed the entire western approach of fashion in the 80s and paved the way for the antwerpians and literally fucking freeing fashion from the staleness that the european tradition had gone

Agreed. Margiela wouldn't have been the same w Asian designers doing exciting groundbreaking things with fashion. I think what's important about mm is he bridged these new more"abstract"ideas with Western fashion. He implemented these influences as a European designer, as well as many new ideas such as anonymity which came together beautifully

Alright, you can now cast your votes for who should move on from round 2

Margiela

>new ideas such as anonymity
nah that was more of Reis and Yohjis asian minimalist approach that did that, margiela was just more literal and meta about it
I'd credit him on making deconstruction to whole new places and really challenging what makes something high fashion, granted again both were something rei and yohji started

Forgot to add that margiela made a lot of euro designers take Japanese designers seriously. I absolutely love junya and Yohji, but my personal style is more so influenced by margielas work.

HA
MM
JW
RS

Yohji

Margiela

Junya

Thom

Not denying rei and yohji as excellent designers. I love that people respect them and look up to them in our world today. In the beginning they faced a lot of controversy because of fashion "traditionalists" who didn't like anything that wasn't one specific style. I do believe that they were and still are very important in fashion, but I think margiela was the catalyst for these influences in Western fashion

Yohji
Margiela
Junya
Raf

yohji
margiela
junya
raf

+1

+1

Round two voting will close at 4:00 PM EST
Get all of your votes in now

Michele
Yamamoto
Slimane
Abloh

The winners for round 2 are in
You can now begin voting on who you think should move on to the finals

MM
JW

Yohji
Raf

Hedi
Slimane

Yohji, Raf
wait rick lost to yohji, wtf guys

mm
jw

Nigga where are
>Jun Takahashi
>Dries Van Noten
>Alexander McQueen
>Jil Sander
>Ann Demeulemeester
?

Yeah, fuck you. I'll go with Sruli Recht.

jun hackahashi is not relevant

Alexander Wang
Yohji Yamamoto
Martin Margiela
Alessandro Michele
Junya Watanabe
Virgil Abloh
Thom Browne
Hendi Slimane

Yohji
Raf

The final showdown is between Raf and Yohji

YOHJI
O
H
J
I

THE YOUTH
+1 RAF

raf

Rick slimane

Rick owens clothing aren't durable like Yohji Yamamoto. Yohji wins.

How the fuck did Hedi slimane lose you nigger

RAF

YOH-JI

raf and by far

Raf Simons defeats Yohji Yamamoto with a score of 4 to 3 to become the winner of the Veeky Forums designer showdown

Raf

Raf

Nice, but I vote Yohji, I guess.

Last couple rounds were actually hard.

Based Raf

Cuz not every fit can be paint-on-pants with chelseas.

you should make a strawpoll or something

Margiela
Raf

R A F
A
F

if these are such influential and important designers why have I never seen anyone dressed in their clothing (not even in big cities)? who actually wears any of their clothing and not just the basic "expensive" brands (gucci, yves saint lauren, etc.)

Come to downtown Toronto, you'll see

Haider
Yohji
Margiela
Demna
Junya
Virgil
Massimo
Hedi

Maybe you don't recognize it when you see it? I see most these designers pretty frequently in LA and the few times I've been to NYC. But competition isn't most influential or popular, just who fa likes most.

Dis nigga

>Virgil Abloh
>Designer
Pick one