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

"...Since returning to Paris after spending, with his wife Michèle Lamy, a good portion of the global pandemic in Lido, Venice.  Owen's return to the runway began with his very cult like and doomish men's collection, which was a spill over from the women's collections that he presented in Lido, all manifested a visual decree of a cultish overture, more so the women's styles which reflected a oracle like presence amongst a pandemic that showed no signs of abating at the height of 2020 and 2021.  Now, although the virus continues to mutate, another event which has taken hold over the world, is the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.  Maybe Owens's Lido oracles were warning us in 2020, that we could be a cycle of tumultuousness, that human overconfidence and belief in the utopian is all but a fabrication - and that the dark should be faced to understand the light.  We're all about to face a new Cold War..."

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

(A.Glass 2022)