For the Women’s ‘Luxor’ runway collection, we are one year into a war and witnessing how inspiring dignity in the face of aggression can be. Times like these might call for a respectful formality and sobriety with moments of delicacy as reminders of what is at risk and at stake. Clothes have…”
From Rick Owens: “If Venice, Italy, has been my summer retreat then Luxor, Egypt, has become my winter retreat. The vastness and scale line up with the Cecil B. Demille fantasy of Egypt in the movie The Ten Commandments (art directed by Paul Iribe!), which I watch nightly while…”
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…”
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’ve all been living a tense period in history waiting for a resolution, be it catastrophic or rational, in a suspense that feels almost…”
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…”
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…”