Excerpt: February 11, 2022. RICK OWENS. FALL 2022 – PARIS (A. Glass 2022)

(Image: designer Rick Owens at the closing of the collection.)

"...The whole collection, despite the details presented, were shrouded in darkness except for the flash of the strobe lights, giving it a secretive and underground feel.  Is this Owens’s detachment from the fashion industry?  Or commentary of what it is to be, as an independent fashion designer surrounded by these all encroaching conglomerates, that for the most part are gobbling up smaller designer labels. 

Is creativity in fashion dying?

Owens’s oracles of the tumult that may indeed reply with another question:  “Are we at the end or the beginning?”

Full review:    https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/02/rick-owens-fall-2022-paris.html