From Rick Owens: “This men’s collection is named Temple, after my retrospective, Temple of Love (“love” is a word really worth promoting right now), which will be opening immediately after the runway show at the Musée Palais Galliera right across the street. A retrospective summons…
The Palais Galliera is holding the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to the work of avant-garde fashion designer Rick Owens. It features collections from his early beginnings in Los Angeles through to his most recent. With a fascination for spiritual ritual, his creations draw on a wide range…
From Rick Owens: “For our men’s collection, shown 6 weeks ago, I wrote the following:’Naming this collection Concordians, I was thinking about my 22 years of traveling to our factory in this small industrial Italian town, Concordia. And not just alone but with my team…
From Rick Owens: “Naming this collection Concordians, I was thinking about my 22 years of traveling to our factory in this small industrial Italian town, Concordia. And not just alone, but with my team, all traveling from their respective glittering cities—to live here in a kind of studious isolation…
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…
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…
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…”