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

"...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.  

One has to admire Owens knack at reworking his own timeline, which holds a unique disposition to the freedom that he has, in reflection of his own signature label.  That not many designers  have the luxury to do so in an incorporated fashion world, let alone if they make into an industry that is saturated with too many hopefuls.  Much like the Los Angeles boulevard of broken dreams, and although I was not born in L.A., the famed city's impact on global popular culture is undeniable.  And this is why I wrote a story in 2021 called "Oracles Mysterium", which was based in L.A., centered around the importance of the past, that it should be put to rest.  And to release the relentless spirits.  As it seems, when one grows older, there is a tendency to disturb what does not want to be disturbed.  Metaphor or not, this maybe why we are attaching continued suffering onto the living.  Time to let go."

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(A.Glass 2024)

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