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

 

"...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.  

Yet, Owens's dark Hollywood exposé in its ceremonial offering, and his many disciples, to herald in Doomsday, is all but fitting for our current times.  And Doomsday as a metaphor for change, and acceptance that calamity, in either form, from nature to human bêtise, holds a purity.  Such is the stygian embrace.  That maybe it is time for change, with over Two decades of conservatism, and governing rigidness which is now leaning towards Fascism.  Be it, that we are our own light bearers within the void.  The darkness is not to be feared. 

And at that edge of this abyss, may there be a glimmer, for a new tomorrow."

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

(A.Glass 2024)