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Rick Owens’s Vibrant Elegy

As much as lust, vice and Larry LeGaspi have worked their dissolute magic on the designer, here he acknowledged that with age has come responsibility.

Fashion Week

Rick Owens’s Vibrant Elegy

As much as lust, vice and Larry LeGaspi have worked their dissolute magic on the designer, here he acknowledged that with age has come responsibility.


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Eerie Power at Rick Owens

He was wrestling with his nihilistic mood, but what was most striking about his collection was how celebratory it looked.

Fashion Week

Eerie Power at Rick Owens

He was wrestling with his nihilistic mood, but what was most striking about his collection was how celebratory it looked.


Fashion Week

In Paris, New Elegance and the Revolution That Wasn’t

Amid the much-anticipated, streetwear-inflected disruption at Louis Vuitton and Dior, it was the need for new elegance that stood out, writes Angelo Flaccavento.

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In Paris, New Elegance and the Revolution That Wasn’t

Amid the much-anticipated, streetwear-inflected disruption at Louis Vuitton and Dior, it was the need for new elegance that stood out, writes Angelo Flaccavento.


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Confusion and Control at Rick Owens

His eldritch geometries served to emphasise his affection for Russian Constructivism, visible in the sweeping polyhedron-like capes and coats which had that sacerdotal quality that is Owens at his most optimistic.

Fashion Week

Confusion and Control at Rick Owens

His eldritch geometries served to emphasise his affection for Russian Constructivism, visible in the sweeping polyhedron-like capes and coats which had that sacerdotal quality that is Owens at his most optimistic.


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A Dreamy Carnality at Rick Owens

He wondered if campness would bring down the wrath of trolls, but another more subdued quality suggested a new depth of reflection.

Fashion Week

A Dreamy Carnality at Rick Owens

He wondered if campness would bring down the wrath of trolls, but another more subdued quality suggested a new depth of reflection.


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Rick Owens’s Sisyphean Task

The designer's anger loaned the collection an apocalyptic edge, but he still found beauty — and humour — in the darkness.

Fashion Week

Rick Owens’s Sisyphean Task

The designer's anger loaned the collection an apocalyptic edge, but he still found beauty — and humour — in the darkness.


News & Analysis

Rick Owens Reveals Birkenstock Collaboration

The designer partnered with the German footwear brand as part of its mobile pop-up series, Box, which is heading to Los Angeles in March 2018.

News & Analysis

Rick Owens Reveals Birkenstock Collaboration

The designer partnered with the German footwear brand as part of its mobile pop-up series, Box, which is heading to Los Angeles in March 2018.


News & Analysis

The Depraved Kindness of Rick Owens

The designer talks to BoF’s Tim Blanks on the occasion of his retrospective-meets-reckoning ‘Subhuman Inhuman Superhuman.’

News & Analysis

The Depraved Kindness of Rick Owens

The designer talks to BoF’s Tim Blanks on the occasion of his retrospective-meets-reckoning ‘Subhuman Inhuman Superhuman.’


Fashion Week

Signs of New Life at Rick Owens

The collection was another way station on the designer's peculiar progress to a kind of peace, where his clothes speak quietly to more and more people.

Fashion Week

Signs of New Life at Rick Owens

The collection was another way station on the designer's peculiar progress to a kind of peace, where his clothes speak quietly to more and more people.


Fashion Week

In Paris, Running From Reality

Paris men’s fashion week was a deeply escapist affair, yet designers like Rick Owens — who staged the best show of the season — ran away from reality to construct a new one.

Fashion Week

In Paris, Running From Reality

Paris men’s fashion week was a deeply escapist affair, yet designers like Rick Owens — who staged the best show of the season — ran away from reality to construct a new one.