Rick Owens: ‘I Want to Be the Kenneth Anger of Fashion’
The pentagrams in his spectacular new collection not only celebrate otherness, they’re also his 'fuck you' to judgy conservatives, writes Tim Blanks.
In the unpredictable world of fashion, Rick Owens stands out as a reliable source of provocative and challenging designs. The designer consistently reevaluates his own work season after season, offering boundless joy through his notes for each show. Owens' fascination with the production processes of his fabrics adds an industrial austerity to his creations.
For his opening looks on Thursday, he transformed heavy industrial nylon webbing straps into textile, creating heavy double-duchesse fabric cut into rigid slabs with girdered lines. These sculptural gowns were described as sumptuous, with Owens himself calling them pure alchemy.
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