Excerpt: Rick Owens. Women's Fall 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...Is Owens doing the same?  The 2024 and 2025 shows have certainly, as mentioned, become a lot more darker and entombed, whilst  hidden behind waves of Owens's own smokey 'nebbia'.  With the soulless, light absorbing black contact lenses worn by the models, seen as another Owens fixation after returning to Paris from Libdo in 2021.

For Owens's Fall 2025 women's collection, it is mostly a leather affair, in his recent collaboration with the luxury luggage brand Rimowa, which are now all sold out, inspiring some of the more rugged jackets and skirts.  Also noted is Owens fetish esque wears of latex and leathers, overlaid with some beautifully intricate denim pattern work.  Despite its vampire styled and bondage wears, Owens has also incorporated a worn torn look to some of the pieces, in similarity to the early Avant-garde styles of twenty years ago, be it that stylized aesthetic of  the weather beaten leather look.

It appears that Owens Oracles of Doom are now manifesting into vampiric overlords, as they pick at the corpse of a self destructive humanity.

A bleakly styled and uncompromising collection, from one of the last of the independent fashion designers."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/03/rick-owens-womens-fall-2025-paris.html

(A.Glass 2025)