EXCERPT: RICK OWENS SPRING 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

 

"...And as noted with my Fall 2023 review, the men's styles are now morphing into his sibyls of the feminine.  Yet, in a clever manner, Owens has ensured that the masculine and the feminine hold a distinctiveness.  As a visual representation of duality, with the subtle fluidity complementing each other within its stygian embrace.  Yes, we are living in very dark times.  

The pandemic changed society and our overconfidence of a technological wonder, has come unhinged.   The human race is at the brink of annihilation.  And at this point in time, our destruction may solely be from our own folly.   With no counter-culture or societal revolution akin to the 1960's and 1970's to guide us out.  We may truly be at our 11th hour.  Is this depressing?  It shouldn't be.  One can see how Owens has forged a cimmerian landscape into his own realm.  Cultivating the artistic drive, so what may seem like a pointless cycle of lethe, that will derive into our inevitable end, can paradoxically, at the same time hold a motivation of purpose..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/06/rick-owens-spring-2024-paris-fashion.html   

(A.Glass 2023)