Hey high-end designers! Think you can bullshit your way through your budget line and get away with it? Think again! Every week (or whenever I feel like it), Designer Slumdown pits the wallet-friendly lines of two high-end designers against each other, and sees who slums it best.
Rogan Gregory for Target vs. H&M x Marimekko
Sooo, the much anticipated, Barney’s-sanctioned Rogan Gregory for Target line hit the racks last week. I haven’t had the horror of viewing the line up close, but based on the leopard trashfest pictured at right, it’s not worth any of our time. This number is skankier than the worst of Forever 21, 100% silk or no. Someone over at Rogan Gregory clearly confused slumming it right with slutting it out, as the dress looks a hell of a lot cheaper than its $39.99 price tag.
The Marimekko option pictured at left puts the Rogan Gregory to shame in more than one capacity. It’s not just uber cute and classy; its length, print and cut make it (gasp) totally In. This dress runs for around ten bucks more than its competitor – even so, $50 is a fairly low price to pay for high style of this ilk.
My biggest problemo with Roland Gregory for Target is that it perpetuates the bullshit idea that if you can’t spend big, you can’t look of-the-moment. When was an animal-print, silk t-shirt dress ever a coveted item? What a crock.
And the best slummer is…Marimekko. By an effing landslide.
[...] lays out the knowledge how to button your goddamn polo shirt once and for all! Cheap JAP reviews Rogan Gregory for Target…and it’s not pretty. Fashion, Evolved talks to the creative force behind MINK Shoes [...]
May 23rd, 2008 - 7:03 AM[...] JAP reviews Rogan Gregory for Target…and it’s not [...]
May 23rd, 2008 - 12:52 PMAmen…they’ve gone down hill alot…but Target Australia is out of this world!
Love,
Danny
http://dannydaily.typepad.com
May 23rd, 2008 - 2:27 PM[...] boob job — NOT. Calculatus Eliminatus shares how to button your polo shirt. Cheap JAP reviews Rogan Gregory for Target. Fashion, Evolved chats with MINK Shoes. Fashiontribes wants Louis Vuitton for a tour guide. [...]
May 23rd, 2008 - 4:07 PM[...] JAP reviews Rogan Gregory for Target…and it’s not [...]
May 23rd, 2008 - 6:06 PMOh WORD x 10,000!
May 23rd, 2008 - 9:02 PMGranted there are a lot of horrendous leopard-print pieces, but there are a lot of cute, comfy and pretty good quality pieces in the Rogan line. I love the sweater with roll up sleeves!
May 25th, 2008 - 1:15 PMThough I haven’t seen the Rogan collection in person I did spot a girl in the Garment District wearing that leopard dress and I thought she looked really fab — not trashy or slutty in the least. I suppose it all comes down to personal style.
Sure, you could skank this up big time but it looked pretty, flowy, and dare I say classy with her chosen accoutrements.
May 28th, 2008 - 12:01 AM[...] that inevitably results in the purchase of a particular item. But after last week’s Designer Slumdown, I couldn’t shake my shopper’s lust for the H&M + Marimekko dress. I had to see [...]
May 29th, 2008 - 1:35 PM[...] lays out the knowledge how to button your goddamn polo shirt once and for all! Cheap JAP reviews Rogan Gregory for Target…and it’s not pretty. Fashion, Evolved talks to the creative force behind MINK Shoes [...]
May 31st, 2008 - 12:23 AM[...] JAP reviews Rogan Gregory for Target…and it’s not [...]
May 31st, 2008 - 4:26 PMI bought the rogan silk leopard dress. And then I took it back.
June 3rd, 2008 - 4:05 PM