Rick Owens

[Fuuma]

r u sure?

Yes.

Faust: not lately, no. Too static, it's like he only styles RO for shoots. I think he's a talented guy and obviously liked what he did at RO before.

[Faust]

Still a cool cat, methinks, styling D2 notwithstanding. I'd work with him.

[interest1]

only Rick can do Rick

[interest1]

an old waywt, revisited

super old but if any of you can name the myriad rules of his own rick has broken I will give you a $5 paypal gift card.

1. I’m not good at subtlety. If you’re not going to be discreet and quiet, then just go all the way and have the balls to shave off your eyebrows, bleach your hair, and put on some big bracelets.

2. Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.

3. I’ve lived in Paris for six years, and I’m sorry to say that the Ugly American syndrome still exists. Sometimes you just want to say “Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.” Still, from a design standpoint, I’m tempted to redo the fanny pack. I look at it as a challenge—it’s something to react against.

4. When a suit gets middle-of-the-road it kind of loses me—it has to be sharp and classic and almost forties.

5. Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggressive.

6. There’s something a little too chatterboxy about color. Right now I want black, for its sharpness and punctuation.

7. Jean-Michel Frank, the thirties interior and furniture designer, supposedly had 40 identical double-breasted gray flannel suits. He knew himself and is a wonderful example of restraint and extravagance.

8. I hate rings and bracelets on men. I’m not a fan of man bags, or girl bags either—or even sunglasses. I don’t like fussy accessories. Isn’t it more chic to be free? Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

9. With layering, sometimes the more the better. When you layer a lot of black you’re like a walking Louise Nevelson sculpture, and that’s pretty attractive. Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is also one of the most attractive things you can do.

10. It’s funny—whenever someone talks about rules, I just want to break them. I recoil from the whole idea of rules.

Ah, Rick. If only it was true.
Every jacket I own of yours has those coveted pockets deep enough for a bible and a gun.

Except for one:

To be fair, it's actually from Lilies (the first leather piece to come out of the line, to my recollection.. and possibly the last; '09, I believe). I loved the blistering, loved the fact that it was fat-padded for warmth, loved the 'fuck-it-I-don't-care' way it hung on the body, like most of Rick does...

But I didn't care for that damned 'tentacle' self-belt. Here's what it looked like in its original design:

So that tentacle. Ugh ↗
It made it so hour-glass, so peplum, so Barbie. At least to me. But I had to have it, because minus those things, it could be great. So I hacked it off, inverted the excess, stitch stitch, and gave it the pockets it was never born with.

post-hack


outties, not innies


Still can't fit a sandwich into either (let alone a bible),
but at least I've some place to put my car keys. And maybe some almonds.

[avout]

[AKA*NYC]

^ who is that?

[kunk75]

trent reznor

[AKA*NYC]

trent reznor

that's what i thought...

[interest1]

^ Rly? You could've held a gun to my head and I wouldn't have guessed that one.

Funny how our minds freeze faces in memory so completely, the passing of time be damned.

[drizzly]

yea trent decided to become an exercise junkie vs a junkie and has been having short hair since the "with teeth" tour. last time he had long hair (below neck) was probably the early 2000s.

either way cool rick dunks! big change for a guy who only wore "fuct" black shirts

[interest1]

"which one of these things is not like the other.."

As long as we're on the subject of footwear..





my dunks. NOT my house.

[Faust]

Must've been some night...

[interest1]

I'll tell her you said that.

Let's hit up that Venezuelan arepas place again some time soon and I'll tell you all about it.

[Faust]

Sure, next time you are around.

[interest1]

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