Good finds

[unwashed]

Same here, true 46 and have 46 gloves. Really need to pull hard to get them off and hard to make a fist. Impossible to handle my smartphone single handed or other stuff you would normally do with one hand. But this was as expected. I should wear them more often to make them more flexible.

[Indes]

here's three pairs for less than half that price:

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/gsc-rinkan/r02261503280009/

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/gsc-rinkan/r02261504010406/

Here's one for less than $600

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/gsc-rinkan/r02261503150030/

His asking price is pretty high but to be fair none of those links you posted are a sz3. I have been looking for a sz 3 and can never find a pair that isn't sz 1 or 2. A size 4 would likely fit perfect but I have never seen one so I am unsure if they were made in a sz 4.

[t3hg0suazn]

I wish this was in sz S, but:
Rick Owens XS Rick's Jacket (mid collar) SS09, want to say it looks like silky lamb: http://page13.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/j...ion/r125109858

[Indes]

prompt decision AW13 MA-1 in sz M for around $585

http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d167771901

Rare Aitor Throup X Stone Island down jacket in L http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...764538&alt=web

[Peasant]

CCP Metre SE Jacket / Black / Size 50. An odd piece but brings the heat on the right person. Retail was about $4k and I don't know of anyone other than A picking it up. Here for $1,600.

[blackfedora]

Drkshdw exploder hood bomber, size small, more recent season I think, $595.

https://www.therealreal.com/products/men/mens-outerwear/jackets/rick-owens-drkshdw-w-slash-tags

[Faust]

Drkshdw exploder hood bomber, size small, more recent season I think, $595.

https://www.therealreal.com/products...w-w-slash-tags

It's the moleskin version, right? Hmmm, tempted to double-up.

[Lois Grüveltner]

Rick 2014 Fall/Winter Moody collection black suede jacket 50% off:

https://www.therealreal.com/products/men/mens-outerwear/leather/rick-owens-leather-jacket-w-slash-tags-17

[the breaks]

Suede doesn't go with Rick's designs/style at all in my opinion. Somehow it's just all wrong.

[Shucks]

please explain why.

i think it fits perfectly with the slightly creepy fusty 70's side of the brand. he's done tons of reverse leather, velvet, corderoy and yes suede...

[drizzly]

i am sure we are derailing the thread a bit but why does suede not fit into his design style? Its a leather option not a pattern. I could see how you would say the cut of a particular jacket doesn't fit a design.

[the breaks]

It just feels wrong, too fancy or something. Don't ask me to justify my stupid opinions, it's unfair!!

e: I'll try anyway. All the Rick I own has a certain "rawness" to it which I love and I've never seen anything done in suede that has it. So probably this is coming from my bias against suede.

[ian+]

e: I'll try anyway. All the Rick I own has a certain "rawness" to it which I love and I've never seen anything done in suede that has it. So probably this is coming from my bias against suede.

there are certain swede pieces that have that rawness, for example the burnished swede bomber from last year

[the breaks]

there are certain swede pieces that have that rawness, for example the burnished swede bomber from last year

Yeah, definitely. But "burnished" anything would have that, probably Unless the word is more marketing than actual treatment...

[Faust]

I know what the breaks is trying to say. Suede is too Gucci. His thought process maybe did not go this far, but I really like the idea that materials are not inherently anything, it's the properties that we assigne to materials through experience (plastic = garish and cheap, suede - sleazy posh, concrete = brutalist). Materials are good and bad or whatever insofar as how they are used. Plastic can be bad, but in the hands of a good designer it can be good. Plywood is considered cheap, but Rick turned that on its head too. Rei Kawakubo elevated the lowly polyester into fashion material. Etc. etc. So, maybe depends on the kind of suede and what you do with it.

There is a Robert Pirsig quite that I keep coming back to and I've posted here before. "Neither is the ugliness inherent in the materials of modern technology ... a statement you sometimes hear. Mass-produced plastics and synthetics aren't in themselves bad. They've just acquired bad associations. A person who's lived inside stone walls of a prison most of his life is likely to see stone as an inherently ugly material, even though it's also the prime material of sculpture, and a person who's lived in a prison of ugly plastic technology that started with his childhood toys and continues through a lifetime of junky consumer products is likely to see this material as inherently ugly. But the real ugliness of modern technology isn't found in any material or shape or act or product. These are just the objects in which the low Quality appears to reside. It's our habit of assigning Quality to subjects or objects that gives this impression."