LOREMONSTER
The Houses

The Houses

Not brands — belief systems with stitching. Each archive house scored as a collector cult: how rigid the canon, how steep the entry, how rare the grails, how the community moves, how violently prices swing. Tiered on the Monster scale.

Different from your taste-cults — those name who you are; these rank the houses themselves.

MonsterCanonCultbubble size = community growth

Entry price vs. grail ceiling

The gap between the cheapest meaningful piece and the apex grail.

$1,000$10,000$100,000$0$200$400$600$800$1000ENTRY PRICE (USD) — cheapest meaningful pieceGRAIL CEILING (USD, log) — most valuable known pieceRaf SimonsMaison Martin MargielaAlexander McQueenHelmut LangRick OwensNumber (N)ineUndercoverDior HommeCeline Phoebe Philofragment designComme des GarconsJunya WatanabeYohji YamamotoKapitalAnn DemeulemeesterDries Van NotenMarc JacobsStüssySupremeA Bathing ApeXLARGEBalenciagaGucciBottega VenetaIssey MiyakeVivienne WestwoodStone IslandOff-WhiteDenim TearsGOODENOUGHNEIGHBORHOODWTAPSPradaMiu MiuLouis VuittonYves Saint LaurentGucciHermès

The taxonomy matrix

Five axes, 1–10. Click a column to re-rank. Each house opens its dossier.

House

Yves Saint Laurent

The Left Bank

10
8
10
8
9
45

Raf Simons

The Riot Church

8
9
10
8
9
44

Alexander McQueen

The Bone Collectors

9
8
10
8
9
44

Celine Phoebe Philo

The Philophiles

9
8
9
9
9
44

Hermès

The Orange Box

10
10
10
8
6
44

Maison Martin Margiela

The Anonymous Order

9
8
10
6
8
41

Undercover

The Seam Cult

9
8
9
8
7
41

Comme des Garcons

The Shape Cult

9
8
9
8
7
41

Vivienne Westwood

The Orb

9
7
9
8
8
41

Dior Homme

The Razor Order

10
7
8
7
8
40

Helmut Lang

The Minimalist Sect

9
7
8
7
8
39

Rick Owens

The Pillar Cult

8
7
8
8
8
39

fragment design

The Double Bolt

8
7
7
8
9
39

Junya Watanabe

The Splice

8
7
8
8
7
38

Supreme

The Red Box

9
6
8
6
9
38

A Bathing Ape

The Scarcity Machine

8
6
8
8
8
38

Yohji Yamamoto

The Black Order

9
7
8
7
6
37

Gucci

The Velvet Underworld

9
6
7
8
7
37

Number (N)ine

The Faithful Misfit

8
7
6
8
7
36

Issey Miyake

A Piece of Cloth

9
5
8
7
6
35

Stone Island

The Compass

8
5
7
8
7
35

Kapital

The Indigo Lodge

7
6
6
8
7
34

Marc Jacobs

The Grunge Ghosts

8
4
8
8
6
34

Balenciaga

The Armory

8
6
7
7
6
34

Off-White

The Quotation Marks

7
5
8
5
9
34

GOODENOUGH

The Root

8
7
8
5
6
34

Ann Demeulemeester

The Quiet Romantics

8
7
7
6
5
33

Miu Miu

The Unrestrained

7
4
6
9
7
33

Dries Van Noten

The Colourists

8
6
6
7
5
32

Stüssy

The First Tribe

7
4
7
8
6
32

Prada

The Banal Eccentrics

8
4
6
8
6
32

Louis Vuitton

The Monogram

8
4
7
7
6
32

WTAPS

The Second Bullet

8
5
6
7
5
31

Gucci

The Magpie Court

7
5
6
7
6
31

Bottega Veneta

The New Bottega

6
5
5
7
6
29

NEIGHBORHOOD

The Motor Club

7
4
6
7
5
29

XLARGE

The Gorilla

6
4
6
6
5
27

Denim Tears

The Cotton Wreath

7
3
4
8
4
26

Scores and price coordinates from the lore.monster research matrix, cross-checked against realized sales. Realized figures are stated as fact; forward-looking auctions are flagged as projections on each dossier. lore.monster is an archive, not an appraisal service — prices shift.