Excerpt: RICK OWENS. MENSWEAR SPRING 2023 - PARIS FASHION WEEK (A.Glass 2022)

"...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.   

Yet, beyond any fetish of the end-of-days, is more of a realization that doomsday, by manifestation, is inevitable, drawing from monotheistic religious such as Islam, Judaism and Christianity that humanity, once we repent all our sins, will ascend into a heavenly realm or go to hell.  Yet, it is Eastern religions such as tantric Hinduism and esoteric Buddhism they view see life, death, destruction and rebirth all as the same cyclical realization.   To break the cycle of suffering and the affliction of materialism, is ultimately to be the free from the bête noir of life...."

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