Rick owens vogue

That might be overstating things, but the opening looks did feel unexpected.

I was working with a dealer in New York who would send me images of sarcophaguses that were up for auction. Finally, this one came, it was so worth the wait. We call her Liza after Liza Minelli. I'm Rick Owens and this is my place in Concordia, Italy. My factory is across the street and this is where I come to do my collections. In this space, I don't like living with a lot of things.

Rick owens vogue

Not invariably but mostly, their silhouettes were like bowties: out and wide at the shoulder and ankle and cinched inwards at the middle. As Owens observed from between his mega-brimmed baseball cap backstage, even portlier people could work the look—those pants sat high to create a center-point at the base of the sternum, north of the paunch. And then came that bang: also every eight seconds or so, fireworks would detonate from one of six towering rigs set in the Palais de Tokyo pool and fill the space with swirls of purple and yellow smoke. The smell of cordite was in the air. Ash rained down. The scene seemed simultaneously apocalyptic and ecstatic, some gothic Pompeii, fiddling while Rome burns. Owens played it straight from beneath that brim backstage. The IMF and World Bank were meeting in Paris today at a summit aiming to recalibrate the global response to climate change and natural disaster. Louis Vuitton was not the only brand to Get Lucky climate-wise this season. Just as on Pont Neuf, the rain receded shortly before this outdoor show too. That no one would turn up. Is that what people are feeling? It was beautiful, for the damned.

These chairs are by the Italian futurist artist Giacomo Balla, they're very severe and yet kind of fantastic at the same time. Detail Look 2. Collection Look 1.

Like all of us, when Rick Owens catches a flight he is obliged to transit through airport retail. This does not sit right with him. For Owens this experience epitomizes contemporary mass luxury and what he observes as an intolerance of difference that is the result of its function to sell a dream of sameness—a standard. And when I wear my platform boots as I go through the airport it is to oppose airport beauty. This is my resistance. Not unlike laughing at a bully, deploying absurdity is one of the most potent ways to subvert enforced conformity.

By Nicole Phelps. That might be overstating things, but the opening looks did feel unexpected. Yes, the models wore contacts that turned the whites of their eyes black, but beyond the otherworldly special effects were three of the most elegant looks seen on the Paris runways this season. Fitted close to the body and perched on top of impossibly high platform sandal-boots, they had the look of s screen goddesses on steroids. It feels strange to use this word in the context of Rick Owens, but they were downright pretty.

Rick owens vogue

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Detail Look 9. Look 6. And I think that's what this is. Balmain Spring Menswear. The collection was entitled Porterville, after the California town in which he was raised. The terrace overlooks the factory right over there. I wanted it as shaggy, as chaotic, as wild as possible. Look 8. In this space, I don't like living with a lot of things. Look 9. Story Saved.

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Detail Look 3. I don't like a lot of decoration but if you're gonna do a decoration, I want it to be as extravagant and as dramatic and as extreme as possible. My clothing choices have evolved from Hollywood Boulevard, it's always been some kind of shorts and it just gradually changes over the years. For Owens this experience epitomizes contemporary mass luxury and what he observes as an intolerance of difference that is the result of its function to sell a dream of sameness—a standard. That no one would turn up. My factory is across the street and this is where I come to do my collections. I think of these as relics of the pieces that we do for the interiors. They were bred, originally, in the 17th century, Japan. It is silk taffeta lined with a cotton pello ovo fabric. Detail Look 7. Space in this building became available a few years ago and we entered into an agreement to collaborate with the family that was running it.