designer labels

Luxury clothing brands

Designer labels are brand names from prestigious fashion houses—Gucci, Prada, Chanel—that signal status and luxury.

The term emphasizes the name itself as the valued commodity: people buy designer labels as much as they buy clothes.

She only wears designer labels.

The phrase often carries undertones of superficiality or conspicuous consumption.

Related

status symbols · styles · opulence · elegance · conspicuous consumption · trendy · trendsetting · bespoke · signature · counterfeit · luxury brands · high end · materialism · brand name · name brand · exclusivity · trademark · garments

Categories
Opposites
brand prestige and exclusivity

designer labelsstore brands

Retailer-owned product lines

off-brand · no-name brands · knockoffs · house brands · fast fashion

branding vs. anonymity

designer labelsunbranded

Without identifying marks

labelless · brandless · untagged · white-label · generic

production and sourcing

designer labelsfactory seconds

Goods with small defects

homemade · thrift store finds · secondhand · hand-me-downs

Family

design, designer, designing, designed, labels, redesign, redesigning, redesigned, undesigned

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G