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Unruly Heir Giveaway

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Moxsie is an online bou­tique mar­ket­place and they are giv­ing one lucky reader a free waist­coat (pic­tured above) from Unruly Heir. To be eli­gi­ble, all you have to do is com­ment and answer the fol­low­ing ques­tion: Who is your favorite designer and why?

Win­ner must have a U.S. address.

Dead­line to enter is Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 4, 2009 by 11:59 P.M.

Good­luck!

  • Tyler

    That vest is totally cute…perfect to pair with my new drop-​​crotch pants…

    My favorite designer is Hen­rik Vib­skov because he cre­ates truly unique, no-​​holds menswears that allows men to make use of inter­est­ing shapes, col­ors, and mate­ri­als all at once while still appear­ing masculine.

  • http://www.popjustice.com Asif

    Oooh, give­aways. I quite like the hoodie part of the vest. I already have tons of them, but one more can’t hurt!

    Tom Ford is my favorite designer and it’s not just because of his work on the run­way — he’s an incred­i­bly adept busi­ness­man. I love his sin­gu­lar focus on him­self as a brand and designer, and his neu­rotic focus on the small­est of details. In these dreary times, every­one needs an old-​​world fan­tasy escape.

  • Belo

    What a coin­ci­dence. I bought the sweat­pants pic­tured above from moxsie and wore them dur­ing this week’s freeze and boy they keep your legs warm and the lin­ing inside really helps. Well worth the price !!

  • Scott

    John Der­ian, for I love bespoke + vin­tage — but with a mod­ern sen­si­bil­ity and twist!

  • Clement

    D Squared.
    Sim­ples lines with a triple ounce of cool.

  • Jacob

    Dior Homme…duh.

    I could use that vest…

  • http://theemeralddandy.blogspot.com Emer­ald Dandy

    Karl Lager­feld is my answer, and no, I’m not try­ing to be cliche.

    I truly admire him for his many tal­ents and design aes­thetic. Not many peo­ple have been able to over­see so many fash­ion houses and enhance their suc­cess based off their dili­gence and hard work.

    I love how he’s con­tin­u­ally keep­ing Coco’s vision of Chanel going strong while always keep­ing things fresh and excit­ing. There isn’t another designer out there that is truly time­less and clas­sic, hav­ing never gone out of style. I espe­cially enjoy how Lager­feld has made an effort to dip into menswear for the Chanel line, every sea­son leaves me want­ing more!

    Lager­feld does won­der­ful work with Fendi as well. Feel­ing like part of the Fendi dynasty since the moment he started with them, Lager­feld has done so much to esca­late Fendi’s leather and fur busi­ness. Each year Karl Lager­feld finds a new way to rein­vent fur, keep­ing such a con­tro­ver­sial form of cloth­ing awe-​​inspiring. I’ll never for­get his lat­est fur cre­ations: fur dipped and dusted in real gold, as well as trans­par­ent fur. Cre­ative genius!

    Then of course there’s his own col­lec­tion, where he lets his pas­sion run wild. His pieces are so clas­sic and wear­able, styl­ish and ele­gant. There’s lit­er­ally no col­lec­tion that I’ve not loved.

    Karl Lager­feld is a cre­ative genius. He’s worked so hard to make Chanel and Fendi, two of the worlds biggest pow­er­houses, so suc­cess­ful with­out los­ing the integrity of their brands. He has so much going on for him­self and is absolutely unstop­pable — it’s because of all he’s done I’ve been able to call him my favorite designer.

    cheers from seat­tle :-)
    emer­ald dandy

  • Xan­der

    My favorite designer is Miuc­cia Prada. I have my own rea­sons; she is one of the few design­ers that has exis­ten­tial­ist art in mind when she designs her cloth­ing. Her phi­los­o­phy blends high-​​art, which is often con­cep­tual, with the prac­ti­cal, which means… wrenches and ham­mers. (By the way, I have no expe­ri­ence with the lat­ter). High art is val­ued for its idea rather than the object itself, and you will see artists tear down pieces, after well-​​documenting them, in order to stress the fact that we should value the artis­tic con­cepts that went into the pro­duc­tion of the art­work. On the other hand is the oppo­site extreme: tools, in the kitchen, in a garage, in a stu­dio, which are meant to be used, and really, may not have been made with the inten­tion of car­ry­ing any intrin­sic beauty. Miuc­cia Prada’s explicit phi­los­o­phy blends these two con­cepts in he artis­tic designs. Her rain­coats, for exam­ple, straight from the run­way may be made to tear apart when washed, or fall apart after the first day of wear. To me, that is ridicu­lous but true lux­ury, which is very strong state­ment about the haute cou­ture world. To make dis­pos­able cou­ture is to simul­ta­ne­ously build and destroy art. Of course, real suc­cess­ful fash­ion is the blend­ing of prac­ti­cal and imprac­ti­cal, but I think her ideas are pretty rev­o­lu­tion­ary, espe­cially for some­one who could have eas­ily, after 30 years, fallen into a rut of com­fort­able sea­sonal cycles of bor­ing col­lec­tions. I also love that she works with Jil Sander, their work is so sim­i­lar! <3 <3 Xander

  • Carol

    Vera Wang. She knows a woman’s body types, and her work is impeccable.

  • Shel­lie Seering

    Love Coco Chanel…very clas­sic and lady-​​like.

  • wendy wal­lach

    I love Betsy John­son because she is bold and not afraid of tak­ing a chance.

    madamerkf at aol dot com

  • Car­olyn G

    Michael Kors. He just designs really nice and clean styles.

  • Bran­don Heyward

    I Live for Car­olina Herrera,

    .…i feel that she infuses a lot of fash­ion basics into one line. Her silou­ettes some­times remind me of Calvin Klein, her prints some­times remind me of Oscar De La Renta, and her use of fab­rics and pat­terns remind of Yves Saint Lau­rent and his way of mak­ing women sexy in mens style cloth­ing. All the while remain­ing sig­nif­i­cant in her own right, and never steal­ing from other design­ers while she may be influ­enced by them

  • lisa

    Michael Kors, for his clean and sim­ple designs.

  • http://breakfastatsaks.blogspot.com Ash­ley

    My fav designer is Alexan­der Wang, espe­cially his cur­rent col­lec­tion. He man­ages to pull off the grungy aes­thetic like no one else, and his clothes can trans­form any girl into an off-​​duty model. He def­i­nitely knows how to drape clothes in the right way as to make a per­son look pulled-​​together but also like they weren’t try­ing at all, and just rolled out of bed look­ing fabulous.

  • Jonathan

    Rei Kawakubo. Her inno­v­a­tive designs and trade­mark decon­structed look have always stood in sharp con­trast with the more con­ven­tional designs of West­ern design­ers — and held their own.

  • http://restlesthings.wordpress.com John

    It’s always been a toss-​​up between Alexan­der McQueen and Nicholas Ghesquière for me, but I think I’ll give it to Nicholas for the moment. His col­lec­tions have intro­duced head-​​turning sil­hou­ettes and pio­neer­ing pro­duc­tion meth­ods yet con­tinue to pay some sort of homage to the legacy of Cristóbal. I always look for­ward to what he comes up with next and enjoy see­ing his influ­ence spread. Cur­rently in love with the men’s var­sity jacket blazer from his FW 2009 preview!

  • http://rococococoa.blogspot.com Joe

    I was just look­ing for one of these! What a coincidence.

    I can’t decide, it’s between J Lin­de­berg for me and Marc Jacobs. JL designs such clean and sophis­ti­cated pieces, and I can eas­ily wear each piece I have by him to the office, to a club or to a week­end bar­be­cue. Marc Jacobs, on the other hand, isn’t afraid of color (me either) and I love the fact that all his brands, from the higher to lower end retain his sig­na­ture look. So its a tie.

  • Daishaun

    im 16 year old male.….
    and you would think hey wat does a 16 year old from vir­ginia know about fash­ion???? haha welll any­ways my favorite designer is marc jacobs sim­ply bea­cause.…. he could be the most rev­o­lu­tion­ary designer of this time…(THE COMPUTER AGE) he is defin­i­tily going down as one of the great­est of all time…from design­ing for perry ellis in the 90’s to cre­at­ing louis vuit­tons first ready to wear line… to all the amaz­ing col­lec­tions he did as cre­atvie direc­tor for louis vuit­ton and his main line.… he is def­i­nitely my favorite designer. besides that i like me some hedi sli­mane, i like kris van ass­che, thom brown, raf simons, tim hamil­ton, and the late great ralph lauren.

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