Rick Owens

[shawn]

Why Rick Owens never design / produce Shirts, Dress Shirts?

Just out of curiosity， It seems Rick Owens has never produced a dress shirt / button-down L/S shirt? (white, black?)

All other brands same level or similar style of RO did it before or regularly.

Have no idea why RO didn't. Just name it: Ann Dem has、Balenciaga，CCP，CdG，Dior Homme，Damir，KKA，LUC，M.A+，Julius，Raf Simons，Viridi-Anne，Y'S, Number (N)ine......

[kunk75]

^he's made a few leather shirts, but yeah, no actual poplin or cotton button downs IIRC

[Fade to Black]

Rick isn't a shirt guy i can't see collars fitting into his universe. Even when I first saw a tailored blazer from him back in around 2006 I assumed it was to be worn with his tees or tanks. I suppose they could go with a longer loose shirt from elsewhere though.

[Faust]

Just out of curiosity， It seems Rick Owens has never produced a dress shirt / button-down L/S shirt? (white, black?)

All other brands same level or similar style of RO did it before or regularly.

Have no idea why RO didn't. Just name it: Ann Dem has、Balenciaga，CCP，CdG，Dior Homme，Damir，KKA，LUC，M.A+，Julius，Raf Simons，Viridi-Anne，Y'S, Number (N)ine......

To ask Rick to make a dress shirt betrays an absolute misunderstanding of his work. One would think that after a gazillion pages in this thread and countless interviews one would know better.

[Who?]

He made a dress shirt for the Drake collection, it was made of a sheer silk, much like the Blazers and Coats in the collection. I'll see if i can find a picture of it.

[DHC]

"Fashion is something that has to speak immediately, to hit you in the gut with something profound, something emotional. It’s a form that has to constantly be of the moment in order to provoke this reaction. A lot of the art I see these days is always ironic, always a wry joke or a superior comment on society—concepts that artists can wrestle with for a year before committing to show it. It’s very indulgent. I disapprove of art these days, which has made me value fashion more than I used to"

[philip nod]

[DHC]

As with anything, there are certainly exceptions. But I have to agree with doldrum's blanket statement. Honestly PN...don't you think that the art world as a whole can be substituted for America in your signature?

[Chant]

Visceral vs intellectual is a classic - and actually boring - antinomy in the field of art criticism. It won't lead anywhere. Rick knows it, it's nothing but a (boring) provocation.

[DHC]

So its fair to assume that a discussion of faith in the absence of reason is not in the cards for us? Haha!! Sorry to have derailed this thread with topic of antiquity.

[Chant]

May I add that people who play the visceral card against the intellectual one are usually on the reactionary side of the game ?

[DHC]

...too trite a foray into the realm of the obvious. Christian, didn't you want to spare us from treading this path or did I misread your prior post as an attempt to let sleeping dogs lie?

..derailed..

[laughed]

fashion can never be art. art deals with and is the human experience where fashion can only comment on it. Rick knows that too.

[DHC]

art...is the human experience..

Misnomer if there ever was one. Not in a position to ascribe such things as ideas, ideals, etc..to an individual outside myself, but I would imagine Rick to know this.

[shawn]

To ask Rick to make a dress shirt betrays an absolute misunderstanding of his work. One would think that after a gazillion pages in this thread and countless interviews one would know better.

I got it, I am just wondering same things happened in M.A+, CCP, LUC, DD and Julius, Undercover etc, they are not "shirt" guys as well, but they all did their signatured dress shirts season by season. ( even White Dress Shirts). I will post pics later.

If RO can design a series of furnitures, it's not so hard to make a dress shirt with his signatured designs. Plus, RO has already designed Blazers, Suits and Dress pants.