Excerpt: RICK OWENS. MENSWEAR SPRING 2023 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

 

"Rick Owens doomsday fetish continues onward, which have always been the template for the once Los Angeles resident, now over twenty years since he and his wife Michèle Lamy, relocated to Paris, Owens has maintained his avant-garde mix of gloom and excess.  After two decades of imprinting himself to be that most recognizable of independent fashion designers, Owens with his signature label, has not relented on its uniqueness over the years, rather he has solidified his heretical claim to fame.  And as noted with my reviews of Owens Venice shows, which were staged on the beach of Libo throughout the pandemic of 2020, in the shadow of a micro organism that caused so much social turmoil in the world.  Owens chose to reiterate the bleakness, by further asserting his darkened gothic overtures, throughout the viral contagion as a resonance to Owens's cultish end-of-days ambience..."   

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Full review:  https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/06/rick-owens-menswear-spring-2023-paris.html