PARIS: RICK OWENS F/W 09

Rick Owens didn’t let me into his show on Thursday at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, but as I walked away two men on motorcycles pulled up to the curb and asked where the afterparty was. There is none, I told them in French, everyone’s broke because of the crisis.

Whether this is true or not is besides the point; if you had seen these two men, you would have understood the necessity of dissuading them. But then, Rick Owens probably does not feel the need to schmooze and debauch in order to get attention. Haughty press relations staff aside, he is one of the least pretentious designers in town. One bit of Owens lore concerns the statue of himself urinating that he had made by Madame Tussaud’s in London.

 
 
 
 
 
 
It was an interesting effect, and, strange as it may seem considering the designer, it conveyed a feeling of optimism – or

maybe transcendence.
 
Images courtesy of the Fashion Spot forums.

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