Rick Owens doesn’t put on underwear.
That’s, he mentioned, California in him. It would not matter that 63-year-old Mr Owens has lived in Paris for many of his life. It is laborious to do away with this coastal breeze.
“I solely put on socks and shorts,” mentioned the designer in his nonetheless intact, a exceptional duplicate of Cali after his males’s present on the observe right here on Thursday.
Why precisely does Mr Owens point out his unnatural issues? To emphasise this dazzling assortment that noticed him undress issues again. (That is undressing, not undressing, folks. Behind the scenes, he was modestly wearing a coat with sharp shoulders and unfold leather-based pants that wrinkled round his boots like a Char-Pei glass.
“It was a serious present,” Mr Owens mentioned. It began with a set of lengthy pants and unfolded in Melton coats and Spartan white hoods. Fundamentals, proper?
Nicely, for somebody who has by no means witnessed Mr. Owens’s intergalactic Gothic magic, this could be some slightly unorthodox foundations. Sure, the Melton coat with a zipper within the entrance had been muted (that is the clothes for the leaders, the model of the ouens), however the leather-based jackets had been crushed to the navel, and these lengthy pants had been mixed with a high high, revealing the physique of Mr. Owens muse, Tyrone Dylan Susman.
“The attractive physique remains to be extra thrilling than costly garments,” mentioned Mr Owens, a loyal customer to the gymnasium. (In one other life, Mr. Owens might give Billy Blanc, the person from Tae Bo, battle for his cash. “If I might get belly muscular tissues, everybody might,” mentioned Mr. Owens. “I swear Since I am only a lazy pig.
Different sensible Owens decorations would solely be fundamental on the planet Zod, equivalent to a white hood with the feel of fossil tape and boots with wavy threads round, harking back to swinging brushes for automobile washes.
“I need sophistication and ease, however I additionally need moments of insanity,” mentioned Mr Owens. You need loopy? Peek into the kissing ear of his jacket, which he referred to as “Dracucollared” in his notes from the present. (Mr. Owens, amongst different issues, writes some fantastic information studies on the SUS.)
“I’ve all the time liked this heavy metallic shine of Dracula,” he mentioned. Tilted up, the erect collars gave the fashions the picture of Bella Lugoshi, current at a Kiss live performance. However the designer assured me that once they had been folded, “in spite of everything, they give the impression of being regular.”
Regular, nonetheless, will not be what Owens customers are loopy. The scholars who fill his reveals, taking out their most beloved Owens innovations, are proof of it.
Within the first row of this, British singer Fka Twigs was sitting, in an exhausted leather-based jacket and tall to the thigh brown boots, and the star purchaser of Owens Dave Chapple, in a fluffy sleeveless pouf and black leather-based clamps. (There’s something inquisitive about this, as Mr. Chapple is turning into extra pillarizing, he begins to decorate as a frontman of a German New Met Group.)
However the true gloss of gloss might be discovered within the standing part. There you possibly can discover the agency folks with mutant poufs that rotate round their shoulders like air -conditioning pipes, ethereal mocheral sweaters and tractor boots with soles of GMO baguettes. I targeted on a fleet of 20 males with hairstyles equivalent to broccoli, sporting matching black Owens jackets and variations of his muscular sneakers. They bounced herself in anticipation of the present to start out.
The newly baptized ones as these already aware of the extraterrestrial extremes of Rick Owens, for whom the so -called foundations that he presents will actually be simply that.
