If you're here for Chopova Lowena's carabiner kilts, folk-craft patchwork and deadstock-textile maximalism, this list is the shortcut. The closest matches are labels that build clothes from salvaged or handcrafted cloth — Bode, Kapital, Tigra Tigra — while the punk-and-subculture side is covered by Martine Rose, KidSuper and Comme des Garçons. Expect very-high pricing at the top of the list and genuine mid-range options like Desigual and Paloma Wool further down.
London menswear label founded by Craig Green, known for sculptural, deconstructed workwear in quilted, strapped and padded forms.
Why it's similar. Both brands embrace bold color choices, innovative materials, and avant-garde design aesthetics.
London menswear-led label founded in 2007 by Martine Rose, known for distorted proportions, rave-culture references and recurring Nike collaborations.
Why it's similar. Shares a commitment to bold aesthetics and playful silhouettes that push fashion norms.
Paris luxury label founded in 2018 by Charaf Tajer, known for hand-painted silk prints and leisure-luxury tailoring rooted in his French-Moroccan heritage.
Why it's similar. Paris house built on hand-painted silk prints and illustrated seasonal narratives, matching Chopova Lowena's print-forward, story-led approach at the same very-high price tier.
London label founded in 2013 by Hannah Weiland, known for colourful faux fur outerwear, handmade beaded bags and print-led ready-to-wear.
Why it's similar. Both brands are London-based with playful, eclectic styles and a focus on unique, premium materials.
Japanese denim and workwear label from Kojima, Okayama, known for boro patchwork, sashiko stitching and indigo-dyed remake pieces.
Why it's similar. Kapital shares the eclectic style and uses luxury materials similar to Chopova Lowena.
London label founded in 2014 by Grace Wales Bonner, pairing Black diaspora research with tailoring, knitwear and long-running adidas Originals collaborations.
Why it's similar. Both focus on luxury and craftsmanship, integrating cultural narratives into their designs.
New York label founded in 1984, known for The Tote Bag, Snapshot and the Heaven youth line, sold by LVMH in 2026.
Why it's similar. Both brands have an eclectic and playful style with a colorful palette.
New York menswear label founded in 2016 by Emily Adams Bode Aujla, built on antique textiles and hand-embellished, often one-of-a-kind garments.
Why it's similar. Both champions sustainability and a unique approach to design, celebrating craftsmanship.
Barcelona label founded in 2014 by Paloma Lanna, making artful, small-batch knitwear and relaxed womenswear and menswear.
Why it's similar. Shares an artistic and eclectic approach with bold colors and experimental silhouettes.
Antwerp house known for clashing prints, embroidery and relaxed tailoring, now designed by Julian Klausner under majority owner Puig.
Why it's similar. Antwerp house known for clashing prints, hand-finished embroidery and layered pattern — the established reference point for Chopova Lowena's maximalist textile mixing.
Needles is Keizo Shimizu's Nepenthes in-house label, reworking Americana and 1970s leisurewear, best known for its butterfly-logo velour track pants.
Why it's similar. Nepenthes' in-house label rebuilds vintage garments into patchwork shirting and reworked leisurewear, sharing the salvage-and-remake logic at a med-high price.
Brooklyn label by Colm Dillane pairing painterly graphics, patchwork and knitwear with theatrical shows; he guest-designed Louis Vuitton menswear in 2023.
Why it's similar. Brooklyn label running on patchwork, painterly graphics and visible DIY construction, with the same handmade, theatrical energy at a more accessible price.
Barcelona label known for maximalist prints, patchwork and colour-clashing clothing, born from a jacket made of second-hand denim scraps.
Why it's similar. The mid-price option for maximalist prints, patchwork and colour clashing — its founding piece was a jacket made from second-hand denim scraps.
Independent avant-garde label founded in Los Angeles in 1994 and now based in Paris, known for draped monochrome tailoring and chunky sneakers.
Why it's similar. Independent Paris avant-garde label whose theatrical shows and asymmetric, subculture-rooted silhouettes appeal to the same buyer, though in a dust-and-black palette rather than folk colour.
Bi-coastal American label from Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta, known for gender-neutral silhouettes, experimental knitwear, painted denim and art-world collaboration.
Why it's similar. Bi-coastal label built on hand-manipulated textiles — distressed knitwear, painted denim — cut in deliberately unresolved, gender-neutral silhouettes.
Stockholm fashion house founded in 1996 by Jonny Johansson, known for oversized tailoring, mohair knitwear, denim and the Musubi bag.
Why it's similar. Stockholm house offering mohair and jacquard knitwear and oversized tailoring at a high tier, a calmer Scandinavian route to the same art-school sensibility.
Paris luxury house founded in 1988, known for deconstruction, blank numeric labels and Tabi split-toe boots; now led by Glenn Martens.
Why it's similar. The originating house of deconstruction, whose raw, treated and reassembled garments underpin the punk-craft approach Chopova Lowena works in.
London label founded by Jonathan Anderson in 2008, known for gender-fluid, craft-led design, sculptural knitwear and Bumper and Chain bags.
Why it's similar. London label doing gender-fluid, craft-led design with sculptural and crochet knitwear, sharing Chopova Lowena's Central Saint Martins-rooted craft experimentation.
Tokyo label by Chitose Abe that hybridizes contrasting fabrics and garment archetypes into spliced tailoring, knitwear and outerwear.
Why it's similar. Tokyo label that hybridises contrasting fabrics and garment archetypes into single spliced pieces — the same collage-construction instinct in a tailored register.
Rei Kawakubo's Tokyo label, founded 1969, known for avant-garde pattern-cutting, a family of sub-labels and the heart-logo Play diffusion line.
Why it's similar. Rei Kawakubo's unconventional pattern-cutting, padding and volume set the template for the avant-garde womenswear space Chopova Lowena occupies.
Jun Takahashi's Tokyo label, founded 1993, mixing punk, horror and art references with deconstructed tailoring in Paris-shown menswear and womenswear.
Why it's similar. Jun Takahashi mixes punk and horror graphics with deconstructed tailoring and patchwork knitwear, matching the punk half of Chopova Lowena's formula.
New York streetwear label built on workwear and uniform codes, independent again after founder Heron Preston bought it back from New Guards Group in 2025.
Why it's similar. New York label built on workwear and utility hardware — vests, cargo trousers, tape detailing — echoing the functional-hardware side of the carabiner kilt, at med-high prices.
Paris-founded label led by Guram Gvasalia, turning workwear, merch and uniform codes into oversized, logo-heavy runway collections.
Why it's similar. Paris label reworking workwear, merch and uniform codes into oversized subculture-referencing pieces, sharing the irreverent streetwear attitude.
London brand founded in 2015 by Samuel Ross, pairing brutalist industrial design with technical outerwear; owned by Frasers-backed Four Marketing since late 2024.
Why it's similar. London brand pairing harness-strapped technical outerwear with industrial hardware, a brutalist take on the utility detailing Chopova Lowena uses.
Closed Belgian label (1995–2022) from designer Raf Simons, known for slim tailoring, oversized outerwear and youth-subculture graphics.
Why it's similar. Closed in 2022, but its post-punk, rave and youth-subculture graphics are a direct reference point for Chopova Lowena's punk side; archive pieces circulate on resale.
Japanese house founded in 1970, known for engineered pleating, A-POC construction and Bao Bao bags across its Pleats Please and Homme Plissé lines.
Why it's similar. Japanese house whose engineered heat-pressed pleating is the technical counterpart to Chopova Lowena's signature pleated kilts.
Spanish luxury house founded in Madrid in 1846, LVMH-owned, known for craft-led leather bags and ready-to-wear now designed by McCollough and Hernandez.
Why it's similar. LVMH-owned Spanish house with a deep craft focus — it runs an annual Craft Prize — though it is leather-goods-led rather than a direct wardrobe substitute.
Los Angeles label founded in 2016 by Bailey Hunter, making hand-woven, hand-dyed and hand-embroidered clothing with artisan-owned workshops in Gujarat, India.
Jaipur menswear label using hand embroidery, block printing and handloom textiles from Indian artisans in relaxed contemporary shirting and separates.
Shanghai womenswear label blending qipao tailoring, embroidery and Chinese folklore motifs with contemporary silhouettes.
Los Angeles small business selling sourced vintage plus a sweatshop-free house line of bold, subculture-inflected clothing.
London designer label subverting British heritage and public-school dressing with pastoral prints, embroidery and craft-led, largely UK-made tailoring and knitwear.
Why it's similar. London designer label subverting British heritage and public-school dressing with pastoral prints, embroidery and craft-led, largely UK-made tailoring and knitwear.
Disco ranks brand alternatives using style overlap, category overlap, price tier, fit, colour palette, and cultural context. Scores are directional, not absolute. Read the full methodology →
| # | Brand | Similarity | Best for | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Craig Green | 87% | Avant-garde | Similar |
| 2 | Martine Rose | 83% | Streetwear | Similar |
| 3 | CASABLANCA | — | Similar | |
| 4 | Shrimps | 77% | Contemporary | Cheaper |
| 5 | Kapital | 76% | Contemporary | Cheaper |
| 6 | Wales Bonner | 75% | Luxury | Cheaper |
| 7 | Marc Jacobs | 75% | Contemporary | Cheaper |
| 8 | Bode | 74% | Contemporary | Cheaper |
| 9 | Paloma Wool | 74% | Contemporary | Cheaper |
| 10 | Dries Van Noten | — | Cheaper | |
| 11 | NEEDLES | — | Cheaper | |
| 12 | KidSuper | — | Cheaper | |
| 13 | Desigual | — | Cheaper | |
| 14 | Rick Owens | — | Similar | |
| 15 | Eckhaus Latta | — | Cheaper | |
| 16 | Acne Studios | — | Cheaper | |
| 17 | Maison Margiela | — | Cheaper | |
| 18 | JW Anderson | — | Cheaper | |
| 19 | Sacai | — | Cheaper | |
| 20 | Comme des Garçons | — | Cheaper | |
| 21 | UNDERCOVER | — | Cheaper | |
| 22 | Heron Preston | — | Similar | |
| 23 | VETEMENTS | — | Cheaper | |
| 24 | A-COLD-WALL | — | Cheaper | |
| 25 | Raf Simons | — | Similar | |
| 26 | Issey Miyake | — | Cheaper | |
| 27 | LOEWE | — | Similar | |
| 28 | Tigra Tigra | — | Similar | |
| 29 | Harago | — | Similar | |
| 30 | Mukzin | — | Similar | |
| 31 | Tunnel Vision | — | Similar | |
| 32 | S.S.DALEY | — | Similar |
For construction philosophy, Bode — it builds garments from antique quilts and vintage linens, often one-of-a-kind, the same salvage-first logic as Chopova's deadstock kilts. Craig Green scores highest on our list for shared London avant-garde sculptural design, though it's menswear-led and less print-driven.
Yes. Desigual sits in the mid tier and is built on patchwork, embroidery and colour clashing — its origin piece was a jacket made from second-hand denim scraps. Paloma Wool, NEEDLES, KidSuper and Shrimps all sit at med-high, well below Chopova Lowena's very-high pricing.
The carabiner-clipped kilt skirt. Collections fuse Bulgarian folk dress with punk and sportswear through patchwork, pleating and bold prints, made from deadstock textiles and vintage aprons with female artisans in Bulgaria. The duo were LVMH Prize finalists in 2020 and won the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund in 2024.
Raf Simons closed in 2022 — archive pieces circulate on resale at high prices. Martine Rose, Kapital, Golden Goose and A-COLD-WALL* have all been acquired, and Marc Jacobs was sold by LVMH in 2026 to a WHP Global and G-III venture. All remain shoppable.
Mixed. Chopova Lowena is womenswear-led; Shrimps, Paloma Wool and Mukzin are the closest like-for-like. Bode, Kapital, Craig Green, NEEDLES and UNDERCOVER are menswear-led, though Bode now sells womenswear and much of the list reads as unisex in practice.