Celebrities turned Designers Options

[misoshiru]

So, there's a lot of Celebrities these days who've decided to design clothing as well.
For example, Justin Timberlake - William Rast, Mandy Moore - Mblem, Scarlett Johansson designed for Adidas and now she's designing for Reebok, and Paris Hilton has designed a clothing line for Steve Madden.

Personally, I'd prefer for celebrities to leave the clothes alone. Say, if Ashely and MK Olsen decided to start designing clothing, more and more people would probably end up looking like hobos with their oversized...everythings. And, taking Mblem as an example, all Mandy Moore does, is design "vintage-looking" tees. I just feel that there's nothing special about them, and why buy a vintage-looking tee for at least $50 or so when you can actually go to a vintage store and get much cheaper actual vintage tees?

Thoughts?

[angelrevelation]

Tyson Ritter (singer of all-american rejects) has a line called "Butter... the clothes", but it's just a bunch of t-shirts that are rather boring.

Emma Roberts works with Dooney and Bourke to design "her own" bags. But I saw an ad-article about it, and all she really does is mix and match patterns and colors and things that the company gives her to choose from.

What's his name... Rev Run? His daughters have designed tennis shoes for something, in "cake colors"...

Only a few celebrities have actual fashion worthy lines, like Gwen Stefani and Pharrel Williams. JLo's is pretty successful too.

I think the only way for their lines to be legitimate is to actually be really involved with them. I think most celebrities are too busy with all the other obligations they have to really pay attention to their clothing lines. They rarely actually come up with the designs on their own. There's always a team of people, basically just bouncing ideas off of them until there's something they like. It's just another thing they're trying to do, just so they can say they've done it.