Junya Watanabe
experimental tailoring and collabs
Avant Designer · Japan
Similar price, worse made
Quality
9/10
Price
$$$$+
Design
9.5 of 10
Reputation
8.5 of 10
Trendy
Rick Owens
Rick Owens at a glance
Quality
Price
$$$$+Designer labels average 8.5
Value
5.1Better value than 19% of labels
Typical US prices
tees $365, knitwear $685, outerwear $3635
Rick Owens is an American avant designer label best known for gothic avant-garde RTW — quality 9.5/10, leaning expressive and casual.
Editor’s note — Long-running cult aesthetic rather than trend-chasing.
Scores
Design
10 of 10
Reputation
9 of 10
Style
Quality 9.5 — 1st of 20 avant-garde designer brands (average 8.0). Value 5.1 — joint 299th of 370 for quality against price; not on the Value Frontier.
Scores last reviewed July 8, 2026 · Sources: lesantimodernes.com (opens in a new tab), trustpilot.com (opens in a new tab) · How we score
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