Excerpt: March 03, 2022. RICK OWENS. FALL 2022 RTW - PARIS FASHION WEEK

 

"...The collection holds a sleeker more defined projection, but the fusion of modernist and avant-garde looks with Owens personal reworking of 1970's and 1980's excesses, keeps it aligned to his enduring mystique.  That of recently appears, deliberately messy.  With smoke machines billowing out and models walking through the mist, Owens's contrarian stylizations are on display, but it is seems like it wants to be hidden, within the darkness.   Noted with his last showing, Owens covered himself completely with one of his outfits, as with this showing, he appears at the end through the smoke and  gloom as a shadow.  Barely visible.  So the question is: Is he imposing himself onto the stygian, or is the opacity, which is absorbing him?"

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Full review: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/03/rick-owens-fall-2022-rtw-paris-fashion.html