EXCERPT: RICK OWENS. MENSWEAR SPRING 2025 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

 

"...Owens has explored this historic template in countless runway shows over his Parsian based tenure, as one of the last of standing independent fashion designers.  To which his playing around with timelines, more so his Los Angeles roots, where in 2020 I wrote an article for a London Fashion magazine, documenting Owens rise to fame from L.A.'s Hollywood Boulevard in the mid to late 1990s to his first show at New York Fashion week in 2002.  Subsequently for his 2025 menswear collection, he has titled his styles as HOLLYWOOD, in referencing not only his own ascent from the Boulevard, but also the imprint that Hollywood, in all its grandeur, has on the psyche.  That being the immortality of the movie star.  

And for this projection, he has gathered an ensemble of 200 'actors', to fulfill a duplication of looks, repeated within a simulacrum of movie extras, immortalized as some grandiose lost production of a bygone era.   Dressed in dulled whites, emulating a spiritual possession.  Despite this, the collection held a dark overture.  Owens also offered 15 minutes of fame to this mostly cast of 200 hopefuls, some already fortunate enough to be used as his muses, others drawn out of Fashion Design schools to walk the walk..."

(A.Glass 2024)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/06/rick-owens-menswear-spring-2025-paris.html