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

  

"...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.  The all black contact lenses, which is now an Owens fixture for his models, sets the precedence of these dark, Melinoe esque and brooding styles, with hints of amatory energy throughout.  Maybe Owens is relitatring that we are still in a state of flux.  And even if we're at the end.   

There maybe no beginning."

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(A.Glass 2025)

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