EXCERPT: RICK OWENS FALL 2023 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

"...So, there are interesting dualities of a designer who has toyed with the transgressions of life,  as a visual show piece seen with his stylizations since 2002.  Owens consistency and ability to draw from his own backlog of collections, does indeed show the adeptness of a designer whose earlier roots are from his Los Angeles artfulness.   With a history, which I explored, albeit as an article for a fashion magazine in 2020,  holds clues to this enigmatic and in someways ambiguity of a fashion designer, who had crafted his own imprint onto an industry without compromise.

But, the passing hopefulness Owens's Spring 2022 men's collection on the beaches of Lido, have returned to his dark embrace.  As noted with my women's Fall 2022 review, the hand held smoke machines and overall stygian performance seemed to absorb the avant-garde designer.   The men's Spring 2023 collection  reaffirmed Owens's take on gloom and excess, which was enhanced by his masculine arrays rather than the female collections; as they continue to hold cult like sibyl prophecies of the end-of-the-world.  

However, it is the Fall 2023 collection which is unyielding in its intensity of portraying the male,  it feels a lot aggressive and warlike..."

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Full review: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/01/rick-owens-fall-2023-paris-fashion-week.html  

(A.Glass 2023)