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  • vah
    Member
    • Aug 2016
    • 66

    The Lighter Side of Rick Owens

    YOU KIND OF WANT the fashion designer Rick Owens to be a monosyllabic, misanthropic recluse. It’s what the embodiment of his clothes should be, if we were going by some unwritten aesthetic script. After all, the fashion Owens presents four times a year, for men and women, on the grand Paris stage, isn’t free and easy. It isn’t simple. It often looks like rags: Precious fabrics, like cashmere, are pilled and laddered, and leather is repeatedly washed to give it the texture and appearance of a prehistoric animal’s skin. There is something monstrous about his gothic garments, with their strange, disturbing proportions attenuated and exaggerated, draped like ectoplasm clinging to thin limbs. When people wear them head to toe, as Owens’s most enthusiastic followers frequently do, they don’t look human. They look other.

    Full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/t...-designer.html
  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    #2
    OMG, Rick in a hat!

    I am going to hold out until the print edition comes to my door tomorrow morning.
    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

    StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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    • Galyle
      Junior Member
      • Mar 2017
      • 2

      #3
      Haha his face in that hat.

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