Excerpt: RICK OWENS. WOMEN'S FALL 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

"Rick Owens, once again, for his Fall 2024 collections, has held his quintessential avant-garde showpiece, at his home in Paris.  As noted with his men's Fall array, it was in lieu in Owens projecting a modest presentation of his latest collections, to be held in a low key setting, away from his beloved Palais de Tokyo grandiose.  As a way of pointing out in an obscure, yet creative perspective of a world that is in absolute disarray.

Owens enigma as the last of the independent fashion designers, could be that sole perspective that is still driving him to create.  Incorporating the mystique of the feminine and the allure of the mysterious stranger, it is these backstories that sometimes can reveal, as a case study, more or less a fascinating element to his rise to fame.  And Owens holds true of that intriguing story of how the Rick Owens signature label evolved, to which I wrote an article in 2020 detailing Owens Los Angeles roots to the avant-garde stature that he has become.  Testament to his enduring fixture within the fashion industry..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/03/rick-owens-womens-fall-2024-paris.html  (A.Glass 2024)