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…
In Yohji Yamamoto’s latest collection, the designer continues to navigate the delicate interplay between fragility and strength, offering a reflection on the complexities of modern femininity through a masterful manipulation of fabrics. This season’s collection…
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…
Junya Watanabe’s latest collection challenges the conventional boundaries of fashion by redefining it as a form of personal public art. Drawing inspiration from sculpture, Watanabe’s designs create a beautiful contrast between clothes and sculptures, merging conventional…
From Rick Owens: “Following our men’s show, we are once again showing in my home and working compound where we began selling our collections 25 years ago – an intimate move in observance of the barbaric times through in which we are living. The show is called ‘Porterville’ recalling my…”
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…”
Yohji Yamamoto, the maestro of avant-garde fashion, is set to celebrate his 80th birthday on October 3. With over four decades in the fashion industry, his passion for creating remains as strong as ever, evident in the recent showcase of his latest collection in Paris. The event displayed an…
From Rick Owens: “With our World conditions under increasing threat, jubilance seems like the wrong note but maybe it’s the only correct moral response? beyond being nice to each other, isn’t personal joy what we are put on Earth to do? Considering joy a moral obligation…”
Ziggy Chen continues his exploration of fabrics and shapes and presents a collection focused on the concept of spontaneity. A man with a zen and natural attitude and a casual style embodies the spirit of “Inadvertency” through fabrics, colors, and details. Ziggy Chen explores the…
Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring/Summer 2023 show drew an unusually large crowd, not for spectacle but for something more rare in fashion today: continuity. As younger designers revisit his 1990s archive and speculation about his future grows louder, Yamamoto’s quiet consistency…
From Rick Owens: “I have been retreating to Egypt where I find great comfort in the remoteness and scale of its history. My personal concerns and global discomforts feel small in the face of that kind of timelessness. Lying down in the dirt with the valley of kings within view is a very…”