Excerpt: Rick Owens. Fall/Winter 2026 womens - Paris Fashion Week

 

"Rick Owens "doomsday witches" told you so.  Correct?   As also noted with his Spring/Summer 2026 collection, where the oracle has become more prolific, be it that feminine power of intuition and her projection of clarity, when the mind is stable.  And for this, ritual is so important, to which Owens's steadfast showings over the years, particularly since 2020, when the whole world went into lockdown via a pandemic, and Owens with his wife Michèle Lamy retreated to Libo, Venice.  Thus, began the more doomsdayish of presentations, although it was already part of his ethos, of his recent collections evolving smoke machines, with sobre and prophetic attributes, and those void like contact lenses worn specifically by the female models.  With their layered, protective, stylized clothing, defiant against the foundations of Christo-Fascist control.  Five years later, this ritualised theme continues on in Paris, France.  The prophecy complete..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/03/rick-owens-fallwinter-2026-womens-paris.html  

(A.Glass 2026)