excerpt: Rick Owens. Men's Fall/Winter 2026, 2027 - Paris Fashion Week.

"Rick Owens has always played around with uniform looks, be it from militarist styles, though to mountaineering outdoor esque arrays of the last 24 years.  While, encapsulating his doomsday cultish elements, or that boulevard of broken dreams necromantic, after the heyday of the counterculture years came to an abrupt end in 1989.  Including that inevitable collapsed state of being.  In other words, the final outcome for all of us, being death.  And, I have said numerous times, as the years have rolled on, Owens has held the independent line, as one of the last of the independent Fashion designers remaining in 2026, he has not evolved his styles, but rather, drawing from his own timeline, to redefine what he had already created.  So, his collections don't feel new, just revamped.  As though Owens is on a constant reset.  But, alas, nothing can remain static forever..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/01/rick-owens-mens-fallwinter-2026-2027.html

(A.Glass 2026)