excerpt: RICK OWENS. SPRING 2023 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

"Rick Owens at times holds a contrarian and in someways obscure complexion when revealing his latest collections, despite the fact he has built a lasting impression amongst a lot of people who follow Owens as one of the last true independent fashion designers left.  It can leave one feeling perplexed at his sentiment.  Whilst it's hard to track ambiguity, despite setting down a template that is of his own design, which is the Rick Owens signature label.  The clues lie in his early years, when Owens begun to prepare the groundwork for his label as the once L.A. resident, manifesting his amphiboly into what we see today.   

And it is an important history lesson of Owens's backstory, when the evolving early 2000's avant-garde styles on the runways fizzed out between 2015 and 2018, replaced by the modernist designer looks which became more of a trend with its street wear and sports company collaborations.  Owens has remained stalwart to the styles that he devised in the late 1990's, revealed at New York Fashion week in 2002..."

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Full review:  https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/09/rick-owens-spring-2023-paris-fashion.html 

(A.Glass 2022)