Garments Inspired by Other Designers - Topic of the day 6/19/25
This Coat is by Engineered Garments for Fall 2024 That season had a ton of 80s avant garde inspiration (cdg,yohji,armani,cpcompany for surviving brands that most will be familiar with today) This particular coat is the "Zip Jacket". It's more of an eg coat than anything -- it's their "Loiter" shape with some interesting detailing with zips to allow alterations of the actual silhouette by the wearer (and in an entirely aesthetic way rather than for fit alteration). That said, it's clearly riffing on the detailing that Rei has done for CDG for ages. To the point of this thread -- when we get a garment like this that speaks it's own language while referencing others INCREDIBLY heavily, at what point do you decide to go for The Real Thing (in this case, snag a CDG Jacket) versus getting the Other thing (The EG Jacket)?
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I don't think there is a Real vs Other thing case here, precisely because the EG jacket still speaks its own design language.
Depends how creative you want to get I guess. Alts are often more affordable options but designs that are the type specimen or uniquely themselves are more creatively fun to chase after IMHO
I spent a lot of time buying alts and "good enough" options and I'm not entirely unhappy with that but at a certain point it does leave you wanting the aforementioned originals
Guess it really just depends on how much a piece speaks to you
it is really fucking hard to format text (impossible) with /suggest
was this all a psy op to justify buying the EG zip blazer
I mean the classic one is the Margiela GATs/replicas. Where the original is far cheaper than the copy
It depends on if you’re buying in to that designers ecosystem really. Like Yohji doubleknees vs Carhartt B01s, or the Story MFG forager jacket vs the Patagonia SST, or mfpen vs J. Press. The most important thing is that the designers language is reinforcing what you’re communicating thru your style or the other pieces in the fit.
For me, Carhartt and Patagonia are my bread and butter. I build most of my fits off of pieces from those two brands and I’m not interested in grabbing designer interpretations anymore. On the flip side with Ivy or milsurp coded pieces I’m much more likely to go for the designer because those pieces are already being used as accents on top of my visual language. There’s just more leeway.
