Contemporary Avant Garde Fashion Designers

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Contemporary avant garde fashion designers. While watanabe still leads the designing for comme des garçons menswear and womenswear collections he manages to produce his own collection. Otherworldly presents avant garde garments styling fashion photography and young designers who are a whole galaxy away from the mainstream. A lot of our jokes about progressive fashion come from comme des garçons.

Yohji yamamoto an avant garde fashion designer from tokyo japan is known for making hip clothes with avant garde tailoring. Ghesquière was only 25 years old at the time and by turning the label into one of the most sought after he made a name for himself as an avant garde visionary. Watanabe is a revolutionary driven japanese designer who served as apprentice to the great rei kawakobo the owner and head designer of comme des garçons.

According to avant garde fashion designer barbara i gongini the most inspirational figures at the moment are old school avant gardists like yohji yamamoto rei kawakubo and junja watanabe portraid. New high tech fabrics and melting forms are no longer science fiction but reality. Celebrated as one of the most avant garde and technologically innovative fashion.

Perhaps most miraculously her status as the grande dame of the avant garde is consistently unchallenged. Retro futuristic pop art fashion by watanabe. Ask any designer which other designer he admires and the answer inevitably is kawakubo.

He stayed at the house for a total of 15 years before entering his current title as creative director at the house of louis vuitton through which he has continued to build his reputation as one of the most influential fashion names of our time. Unwearable subversive radically post human alien. In honor of the women that have blazed the trail in fashion design we take a look at the 25 most influential female designers with the help of parsons francesca granata and pratt s jennifer.

Yamamoto who originally went to law school decided after graduation that he wanted to help out at his mom s dressmaking shop instead.