Excerpt: Rick Owens. Spring ready-to-Wear 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...What was also evident with Owens post-pandemic shows and his return to Paris in 2022, was the Oracles of Doom, with those void eyes of the Sybils, viewed as all black contact lenses.  And for his Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear collection, in contrast to the positive glimpses seen with the previous showing, although there was a doomsday undertow seen throughout.  Owens Oracles of Doom have returned or at least as disciples, in their funeral esque procession of his 'everyday people' models.  Apparently recruited from current fashion design students, his own employees and other hopefuls, with barely a 5,11" model amongst them.  With no apparent reason why, any more or less than Owens decreeing that the collection showcased different body shapes and sizes while offering a variety to Owens's Spring 2025 stylizations.  But, one does miss Owens's graceful necromancers, and their conjuring mystique.  However, as noted with the First 'Hollywood' collection, these en masse of everyday people moving in their slow resolve around the Palais de Tokyo grounds, could be seen as an overwhelming spectacle for the viewer..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/09/rick-owens-spring-ready-to-wear-2025.html

(A.Glass 2024)