Excerpt from: RICK OWENS THE EARLY YEARS 1994-2002: FROM HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD TO NEW YORK FASHION WEEK.

(Rick Owens 1st Runway collection “SPARROWS”  (2002)

...Owens first sale to a Los Angeles boutique paid off, as the larger store Maxfield took note, soon becoming a more substantial buyer, which continues to this day, of the Rick Owens label. Lamy's Le Deux café was shelved after issues she had in 1997 of the actual 'house' collapsing and the rising costs of maintaining the endeavour. In the final years of the 90's a switch occurred with Owens leading the creative helm of his brand with Lamy, his soon-to-be-wife, overseeing the business dealings. Yet, what might seem to be a reversal of fortunes, was balanced equally on the couple's interest of the hedonistic, Lamy maybe the enchanting Gothic like character with her plethora of contacts and Owens the edgy designer who flirts with oblivion - however L.A. regardless of the romanticism is notorious for chewing up and spitting out the idealist, with or without that taste for fame. To which Owens was quoted in an article, “...I was going to make beautiful things and live in glamorous squalor on Hollywood Boulevard and die the hero for having stuck to my vision and not compromised...”  

(A. Glass 2020)

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