Excerpt: RICK OWENS. FALL 2023 READY-TO-WEAR - PARIS FASHION WEEK

 

"Akin to Rick Owens men's Fall 2023 collection, Owens has adorned a more aggressive and war like fixture to his Fall 2023 collection/s, moving away from his Lido beach 'Oracles'.  As discussed in my previous reviews of 2020 and 2021, over that period, Owens did tune an aggressive take onto his trumpet-of-doom collections, whilst keeping the stylizations balanced within that intuition of the feminine and her esoterica knowledge of how to deal with calamity, as opposed to the masculine.  Who as we all know now, ended up, to which Owens commented on for his Fall 2021 collection, storming Congress in Washington looking for a scapegoat after Trump's social media frenzy in early 2021.  And unfortunately like his men's 2023 collection, he has washed over his latest women's styles with the said blunt and direct arrays.  Portrayed equally the same confronting aesthetics seen with both the majority of the male and female models wearing their stygian contact lenses, which blocks out any emotional cues.

So, Owens's Fall Ready-to-Wear 2023 collection to date have lost a lot of its sheen and glamour under his gothic banner, despite some of the outfits relating to Owens continued interest in the darker side of the 1970's discothèque, with silver, gold and fluorescent colored dresses and jackets.  The overall styles presented have been dulled down, stripped back into a more rawer decree..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/03/rick-owens-fall-2023-ready-to-wear.html

(A.Glass 2023)