Line #64 Main/EccentricFashionDesigner


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3	This character is a trend setter, on the bleeding edge, an artist, creator, and auteur par excellence. They can define an entire generation's aesthetic [[FifteenMinutesOfFame (if only briefly)]] and alter the course of apparel. They are also chock-full of eccentricity, flamboyance, opinion and energy. The Eccentric Fashion Designers oscillate between {{Mad Artist}}s[=/=]{{Cloudcuckoolander}}s and perfectly sane (but still "gifted") people with many quirks.
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5	Here's a few:
6	* They'll dress how they design: eccentrically, and usually boast an UnlimitedWardrobe. In fact, for them it's not CostumePorn, it's [[ItsNotPornItsArt Art]].
7	* Have speech affectations or an accent if foreign. Typically the Eccentric Fashion Designer is European, Asian, homosexual or ''[[TwoferTokenMinority all of the above]]''.
8	* An obsessions with perfection and originality. Models will usually be expected to do things that impinge on their dignity and/or worthy of NoOSHACompliance.
9	* Male Eccentric Fashion Designers will probably be CampGay, even ''straight'' designers may act [[CampStraight the part]] in a weird form of reverse closeting to gain credibility.
10	* An insistence on calling everyone "Darling" or some variation thereof (possibly to the point of TermsOfEndangerment when villainous).
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12	Shares a lot of traits with EccentricArtist and TheFashionista, and both sometimes overlap.
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14	!!Examples:
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19	* ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'': Mad Mod disguises himself as a kooky foreign fashion designer named [[SignificantAnagram D.D. Ammo]] in an attempt to control the minds of Jump City's inhabitants. Robin makes a comment on the clothes, saying they're outdated or something.
20	%%** Mad Mod is an example in [[ComicBook/TeenTitans the mainstream comics]] as well, especially after he reformed.
21	* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Jumbo Carnation is a flamboyant four-armed fashion designer whose X-Factory [[SuperCostumeClothier creates outfits for mutants]]. He is known for creating the wing-glove and tentacle stocking.
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25	* ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'': Edna Mode is a fashion designer for superheroes, and her demeanor is very quirky. Despite this, she's very [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight competent]] and GenreSavvy when it comes to designing supersuits -- most notably, she doesn't use capes because a number of heroes have been killed by {{Cape Snag}}s.
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28	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
29	* ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'': Cruella de Vil is a more sinister example of this trope. She's a fashion designer (at least in the live-action films; her job is unmentioned in the animated film, although it's mentioned that she's married to a furrier in the books) [[CruellaToAnimals with a strong penchant for furs]], with her obsessing on dalmatian spots. And although she acts bubbly, she's actually quite [[{{Jerkass}} rude and self-centered]].
30	* ''Film/GentlemenBroncos'': Subverted. Ms. Purvis is a creative and eccentric designer, but her designs are as banal as they are bizarre and her personal style of expression is conventional, almost to the point of exaggeration.
31	* ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'': Lady Holiday is very much this trope. In one scene she dumps ink on a model to get the right look.
32	* ''Film/TheNeonDemon'': Roberto Sarno is portrayed as eccentric in a bad way, viciously humiliating models who attend his casting calls, ranting about Jesse's beauty, and eventually shepherding her into vicious narcissism, personified by his trippy show.
33	%%* ''Film/PretAPorter'': Pretty much everyone. - '''ZCE; Needs Explanation'''
34	%%* ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'': Mugatu. - '''ZCE; Needs explanation'''
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37	[[folder:Literature]]
38	* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': Subverted by Cinna, who surprises Katniss by being extremely softly spoken and tasteful (even if he does set Katniss on fire). However, this is played straight by all the other designers and styling teams, who are extremely manic with off-the-wall ideas about how to dress the tributes.
39	* ''Literature/MySisterTheSerialKiller'': Downplayed. Ayoola is primarily an Instagram model who makes and sells her own clothes -- and a bratty, narcissistic [[CaptainObvious serial killer]] who relies on her older sister to cover up her crimes.
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43	* ''Series/UglyBetty'': In one episode, a famous stylist hired to pick the outfit for a celebrity baby photoshoot wants to dress the baby in chain mail. He refuses to listen to Betty's objections over the danger to the baby, and eventually {{ragequit}}s when she won't budge (since with Daniel and Wilhelmina out of the office she has authority).
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47	* ''Videogame/AnimalCrossing'' Gracie visits your town from time to time, and gives you rare pieces of clothing you wouldn't normally find at the Able Sisters' shop. She ([[ShesAManInJapan or he in the Japanese version]]) tends to call the player "honey" or "darling" and speaks with a deep voice.
48	* ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'': Minette from "Danger by Design" constantly wears a white mask and has extreme mood-swings, including getting violent with her employees. [[spoiler:And she's the bad guy.]]
49	* ''VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou'': Inverted. [[spoiler:Shiki]] is revealed to have become a wildly successful and popular designer after starting up her fashion brand, Gatto Nero. However, [[spoiler:Shiki]] herself has one of the most mundane appearances and least eccentric personalities out of the entire cast.
50	* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' has the [[ElementalRockPaperScissors Psychic-type]] Gym Leader Tulip, a flamboyant, elaborately-dressed makeup artist who's famous enough to have her own product line and monologues about beauty throughout the fight.
51	* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'': Stefan is a European fashion designer and owner of the Impressions, a high-end clothes store chain in Stilwater. He sports a thick, vaguely French accent, rather campy affectations, always [[ThirdPersonPerson refers to himself in third person]], and likes to [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment repeat parts of his sentences]]. He is also in cahoots with the Vice Kings gang (or rather, he is the personal fashion advisor to one of their lieutenants, Tanya), making him a target for the Saints.
52	* ''Videogame/StyleSavvy'': Rococco (named "Pario" in Japan) is a flamboyant and brightly dressed fashion designer. In the sequel game, his design is toned down and becomes a {{bishonen}}. English translations make him into Rococco's son, Rocco.
53	* ''Videogame/TheOuterWorlds'' has Celeste Jolicouer, a pompous fashion designer responsible for all of the fancy articles of clothing you can find around the world. Nonetheless, despite living in a planet where classism is rampant she's very quick to help Parvati Holcomb make an outfit. She's also capable of creating a suit that happens to be an excellent piece of combat armor after [[TwentyBearAsses you get some animal parts for her]], though by the end [[spoiler:she's killed by the government for the crime of being too much of an independent thinker]].
54	* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' has Elihal, an elven WholesomeCrossdresser who runs a boutique on the outskirts of Novigrad.
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58	* ''Webcomic/FurryExperience'': Diana, sister to Brian, debuts in the chapter "What The Pencils Mean." She appropriates Brian's pencils to craft an outfit made from pencils, ribbons, and tailor's rulers. In a later strip, Diana helps herself to her mother's "good" yarn, and knits an outfit for herself. She then goes to university to show it off, and to take requests for custom outfits from other students.
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62	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicRarity Rarity]] has more than a few shades of this: her forte is [[GemEncrusted adding gem-based bling]] to her designs, and she speaks with an affected mid-Atlantic accent, calls everyone "darling", and has a very flamboyant, driven and perfectionist personality with a tendency to dive into obsessive phases when particularly gripped by her work. Granted, she actually turns out to have a more down to earth design sense than her friends when they make suggestions.
63	* ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'': Donita Donata is downplayed a bit since it's a show for kids, but otherwise fits well. She speaks with a ridiculous accent, rarely dresses the same way twice, calls everyone "darling," and is fanatical about finding ways to incorporate animals into her fashion designs - the rarer the animal, the better she likes it. Of course, this brings her into regular conflict with the nature-loving, animal-protecting Kratts and their team.
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66	[[folder:Real Life]]
67	* The Italian haute couturier UsefulNotes/ElsaSchiaparelli is a living embodiment of this trope in much of her career during the 1930s and 40s. Being a fashion designer who is also affiliated with the {{Surrealis\|m}}t movement, her designs included fake bow designs in sweaters, the usage of hot pink with contrasting colors, shoe hats, and dresses that include one with lobster appliques, one with boning resembling skeleton bones, and one with fabric tear designs.
68	* While a stretch, Music/LadyGaga and her fashion label called the Haus of Gaga, provided much of a gallery of outrageous outfits that she wore throughout her career, especially through her ''Fame'' era.
69	* The late American fashion designer and interior decorator Iris Apfel was renowned for her unabashedly flashy and eccentric style, [[CoolOldLady which she retained even in her advanced age (she was 102 when she died in 2024)]]. From her extensive work on decorating the White House to even the fashion she wore on a day-to-day basis, her style was very much a controlled sort of chaos, and her signature sense of playful, ornate, over-the-top energy pervaded pretty much anywhere she or her designs turned up.
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