From Rick Owens: “Our last show presented a white satin army of love, my response to the realization that holding the previous season’s shows in my house with a reduced audience ended up being an act of exclusion instead of the observance of respect in the face of our current wars that I had intended. I have once again asked all the fashion schools in Paris to send us…
From Rick Owens: “Last season’s collection was named ‘Porterville’ after the small judgmental town I had to escape from. This season’s collection is named ‘Hollywood’ after the boulevard of vice I gleefully ran to… to find my people… weirdos and freaks… living in a world Lou Reed described in ‘Walk on the Wild Side’, I was looking for the flaming…
For SS25, VENIA explores the tale of two travelers in search of their loved ones across a vast and desolate landscape — reflecting themes of journey, grief, and hopefulness. Dust blows as the blurry figures emerge from the sand blown landscape, walking through what seems to be a completely destroyed building. You see their grimacing faces and tired looks…
From Rick Owens: “I went to a Björk concert earlier this month and her intelligent, life affirming energy made me kind of embarrassed of my own mopey adolescent pessimism… and hers wasn’t a Disney escapist obliviousness, but a concerned and thoughtful trust in moving forward. She expressed hope. I suppose i express resignation. My default setting…”