excerpt: Rick Owens. womens Spring/Summer 2026 - Paris Fashion Week

"...Why all this talk in regards to the legacy of Rick Owens?  Well, there appears to be a sombre resolve to keep doing what he is doing, and retirement does not seem to be on the horizon.  Owens turns 64 in November, and Michèle Lamy, Owen's wife, is 81, which makes them both 'boomers'.   Distinctly original, and unique, Owens doomsday take, which seems to have become more pronounced after the 2020 pandemic, is now settling back into his Temple like fixation at the Palais de Tokyo 1930s, Art Deco monolith imprint, with both the mens and womens Spring/Summer collection being titled as "TEMPLE".   The doomsday has been replaced with the sombre, as the models descend into the pool like fountain area of the Palais de Tokyo.  

Yet, his latest womens collection reminds me of the Owens's doomy oracle witches that walked the beaches of Lido, Venice during the lockdowns across Italy and Europe, it was Owens foretelling that one crisis is usually followed by several, so the was a prophetic overture to the 2020 collections, and it appears to be projected again, despite the use of water as metaphor to be cleansed and reborn..." 

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/10/rick-owens-womens-springsummer-2026.html