From Rick Owens: “Gethsemane was the garden Jesus prayed in the night before the crucifixion; a place of uneasy repose and disquiet before a final reckoning. We’re all living a tense period in history waiting for a resolution, be it catastrophic or rational, in a suspense that feels almost biblical in its drama – primitive and profane. Jackets and coats in leather and shearling…”
“A statement about today’s world.” According to the show notes, that’s the takeaway from Yohji Yamamoto’s fall men’s show, which was presented in a video format. Statements that might be described as rebel yells there were aplenty: Coats and suits were printed and embroidered with random, untethered phrases including “Amazing Grace” and more…
From Rick Owens: “I spend my summers on Venice’s Lido, the site of thomas mann’s novella death in Venice. The main character, a writer ascetically devoted to his craft, develops an obsession with a youth and ends up dying on the beach from Cholera during an epidemic with desperately age-defying hair dye running down his face in the hot sun…”