Top 5 High Fashion X High Street Collaborations

High Fashion and High Street Fashion has always some common qualities to each other. And that is to make people look sharp. They might have different markets, but there's always a way to make them one and that is collaboration. I love High Fashion X High Street Collaborations!!!! You can have a High Fashion look in a way cheaper price! High Street Brands like H&M, Uniqlo, Topshop and many more has been collaborating with High Fashion Brands like Viktor & Rolf, Versace, Maison Martin Margiela. This collaborations met a huge commercial success. It even have some really long queue before it releases at stores. I love this idea I will make my personal favourite 5 High Fashion X High street Collaborations. This is my Personal opinion and not others.

So Let's Start






5) Jil Sander X Uniqlo (2009 - 2011)


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Jil Sander may be known as very trendy yet wearable pieces And Uniqlo has been known as a lifestyle brand. So It means they have a mutual connection to each other that make this collaboration happen from 2009 - 2011. Very sheek designs by Jil Sander and a perfect execution by Uniqlo that didn't suffer the quality of the pieces. I really wish this collaboration will return. Should I start a petition online now?




4) Lanvin x H&M (2010)


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This collaboration hit big! You can just see those coats & dresses and you will know this is gonna be a hit! The designs that the house of Lanvin is not trashy and it's very haute couture which worth every penny. H&M has a lot of collaborations before but this collaborations that really stand out. Just look at the pipeces at the picture below. It may not be priced as your typical H&M item but having one is definetly a steal! I hope they will collaborate again buy this time there's a menswear added.



 
3) Various Commes Des Garçons Collaborations


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The house of Commes Des Garçons has donee a lot of collaborations with various brands from Converse to H&M to Nike. Rei Kuwakubo's Commes Des Garçons has been the favorite of these brands to collaborate with. With massive market sales it only shows how people love Commes Des Garçons and it always collaborates with common brands which is a good thing for both parties. Bringing premium designs to the masses. I'm looking forward to have some more Commes Des Garçons collaborations in the future which is most likely to happen anytime.




2) Jeremy Scott x Adidas Originals


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This list will not be completed without this hugely succesful collaboration of Moschino's creative director Jeremy Scott which is known for outrageous designs for the house of Moschino. Adidas reinventing their sub brand Adidas Originals is getting some serious attention from the mass since they launch this collabboration. Giving the people the famous high cut wings sneakers and it sells on a low price for a trendy couture like designs. The collaboration maybe focuses on footwear but this collaboration is too good not to mention. I'm waiting for more of their collaboration.




1) Maison Martin Margiela X H&M (2012)


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When I learned about this collaboration is going to happen I went nuts! Maison Martin Margiela pieces in low price? I can't pass this out. My favourite house for casual wear Maison Martin Margiela collaborated with High Street brand H&M last 2012. The niche haute couture house is very popular with extravagant fashion shows and collections did this good deed for the masses to finally wear his designs by the common people by this collab. Again this might not be your typical H&M price line but it's very worth the penny.












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Top 10 brands that mostly mispronounced

This is based on what i observe with other people. I admit i have some difficulties with other brands with hard pronunciation. But i can't stop laughing when some stranger mispronounced a luxury brand while inside the actual store or high end department store.





10. Longines - Normal people or people with no knowledge with luxury brands would say /Lawng-ines /. The proper pronunciation of Longines is /Lawng-jeen/. Longines a luxury watches house based in Saint-Imier, Switzerland. Founded by Auguste Agassiz in 1832, the company is owned by the Swatch Group. Its winged hourglass logo is the oldest registered for a watchmaker. Longines is known for its 'Aviators' watches. A company director was a friend of Charles Lindbergh; after his transatlantic flight, Lindbergh designed a pilot watch to help with air navigation. Built to his specifications, it is still produced today. Longines provided timers used at the first modern-day Olympics in 1896. In 1899, Longines went to the North Pole with Arctic explorer Louis Amédée de Savoie. It was the first to use automatic timekeeping for the Federal Gymnastics, at Basel in 1912. Today, Longines remains a widely recognized name in sport watches and chronographs.




9. Balmain - People with no knowledge in luxury would definitely pronounce it /Bol-meyn/. The pronunciation of Balmain is /Bal-mah/. Balmain is a fashion house that was founded by Pierre Balmain. Balmain was born in 1914 in France. His father owned a drapery business and his mother and sister owned a fashion boutique where he often worked after his father’s death in 1921. He always had a love of fashion and an eye for design. He attended the Ècole des Beaux Arts in 1933-1934 with intent to study architecture but instead ended up spending the majority of his time designing dresses. After working for atelier Robert Piquet as a freelance artist and spending time with Edward Molyneux, he left school to work for Molyneux. In the late 1930s, he served in the French air force and the army pioneer corps. After peace was declared, he worked at Lucien Lelong and opened his own fashion house under his name. He released his first collection in 1945 and his first fragrance in 1949. While at Lelong, he met Christian Dior, a designer who would play a huge role in Balmain’s career and the postwar fashion industry in general.




8. Tag Heuer - People with no knowledge in luxury would definitely pronounce it /Tag-yuwer/. The correct pronunciation of Tag Heuer is /Tag-hoyer/. Tag Heuer designs, manufactures and markets watches, chronographs and fashion accessories while also marketing eyewear and mobile phones manufactured under license by other companies and carrying the Tag Heuer brand name. TAG Heuer began as Uhrenmanufaktur Heuer AG, founded in 1860 by Edouard Heuer in St-Imier, Switzerland. The company was purchased by TAG Group (Holdings) S.A. in 1985, when the Heuer brand became TAG Heuer. In 1999, TAG Group sold TAG Heuer to French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton. The name Tag Heuer combines an abbreviation for Techniques d'Avant Garde and the surname Heuer.




7. Guerlain - People with no knowledge in luxury would definitely pronounce it /Ger-lane/. The correct pronunciation of Guerlain is /Gehr-La/. Guerlain is a French perfume house, among the oldest in the world. It has a large customer following, and has traditionally been held in high esteem in the perfume industry. Perfumes by Guerlain are often said to be characterized by a common olfactory accord known as the "Guerlinade". A perfume by the same name was launched by Guerlain in 1921.




6. Lanvin - People with no knowledge in luxury would definitely pronounce it /Lan-vine/. The correct pronunciation of Lanvin is /Lohn-vin/. Lanvin is a high fashion house, which was founded by Jeanne Lanvin. It is established in the year 1889.




5. Guy Laroche - People with no knowledge in luxury would definitely pronounce it /Guy-Larosh/. The correct pronunciation of  Guy Laroche is /Gee-Lah-Rosh/. Guy Larche was a fashion designer and founder of the eponymous company.




4. Givenchy - People with no knowledge in luxury would definitely pronounce it /Give-En-Chee/. The correct pronunciation of Givenchy is /Jhee-von-Shee/. Givenchy is a luxury French brand of Haute Couture clothing, accessories, perfumes and cosmetics with Parfums Givenchy. The house of Givenchy was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy and is a member of Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture et du Pret-a-Porter. It is owned by luxury group LVMH and in 1993 achieved a total sales worth of $176 million, making it the second largest apparel division of LVMH after Dior.




3. Comme des Garcons - People with no knowledge in luxury would definitely pronounce it /Cam-de-garkons/. The correct pronunciation of Comme des Garcons is /comb-day gahr-sawn/. Comme des Garcons is French for "Like Boys", is a Japanese fashion label headed by Rei Kawakubo, who owns the company with her husband Adrian Joffe. Comme des Garçons is based in Tokyo and also in the prestigious Place Vendôme in Paris, the city in which they show their main collections during Paris Fashion Week and Paris Men's Fashion Week. Each year, the company grosses about $180 million. The Japanese flagship store is in Aoyama, Tokyo's high fashion district. The company also has concept stores Trading Museum Comme des Garçons and 10 Corso Como Comme des Garçons in Tokyo, and stores in Kyoto, Osaka and Fukuoka. Worldwide they have traditional Comme des Garçons stores in Rue du Faubourg St-Honoré in Paris and on West 22nd Street in New York, as well as stores in Hong Kong, Beijing, Bangkok, Seoul, Singapore, and Manila.




2. Peugeot - Normal people from the street would definitely pronounce it /Pyu-jot/. The correct pronunciation of Peugeot is /Poo-jsho/. Peugeot is a French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën.
The family business that preceded the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion trademark. Armand Peugeot built the concern's first car, an unreliable steam tricycle, in collaboration with Leon Serpollet in 1889; this was followed in 1890 by an internal combustion car with a Panhard-Daimler engine. Due to family discord, Armand Peugeot in 1896 founded the Société des Automobiles Peugeot. The Peugeot company and family is originally from Sochaux, France. Peugeot retains a large manufacturing plant and Peugeot Museum there. In February 2014, the shareholders agreed to a recapitalisation plan, under which Dongfeng Motors and the French government were each to buy a 14 per cent stake in the company.




1. Koenigsegg - NOrmal people from the street would definitely say it's /Koin-segg/ and sometimes they don't say the brand name. They just gonna say the exotic car. The correct pronunciation of Koenigsegg is /Kou-nig-zegg/. Koegnisegg  is a Swedish manufacturer of high-performance sports cars, also known as hyper-cars, based in Ängelholm.