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

"Rick Owens "Conconcians" discodia theme from the Fall 2025 men's showing, revealed at his beloved Palais de Tokyo, continues to paradoxically imprint, within its orchestrated chaotic fusion, over two decades of Owens runway shows.  And masterfully, he's been able to invoigrate his benchmark dark resolve, with over 20 years of Paris fashion weeks under his belt, which have very much fluctuated and weaved throughout Owens rise to fame timeline, with the 2020 pandemic possibly being a turning point, when Owens wife Michèle Lamy and himself retreated into the mist of Libo, Venice's 'nebbia'.  While echoing its past resonation, via the late American Russian poet Joseph Brodsky's ode on what isolation from the famous Venetian fog can do to the human mind, more so the creative, and according to Brodsky it can be bliss.

Which can be seen in the use of smoke machines and those doomsdayism processions, which I deemed from the Lido 2020 shows, as Owens 'Oracle' witches, or Sibyls of Doom, warned that the pandemic was just the beginning of the end, and to be prudent, she asks that the arrogance of humanity be kept in check.  A backstory, which I personally felt represented the apocalyptical overtures of Owens 2020 and 2021 women's collections on Lido beach, before he returned to Paris in 2021.  Yet, Owens holding his shows within and outside the Palais de Tokyo, after briefly staging a handful of showings at his home in Paris, the monolith 1930s Art Deco structure representing Owens tomb like fixation, has ensured that the collections have become darker and a lot more brooding.  And dare I say, with a vampiric appeal?..."

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

(A.Glass 2025)

Spring/Summer 2026 Mens review soon.