Rick Owens is one of those designers where you know what you’re going to be seeing but are still surprised by the shape of the show. Owens fans flock to him for his impeccably draped leather jackets and strapped wedge boots, and he delivered on both accounts this season, but he also showed a softer side that, while maintaining his gothic and extremist aesthetic, was absolutely wearable. Silhouettes were slim but not suffocating, once again separating himself from the hoards of conceptual designers that believe a woman has to be bound by PVC into an unrecognizable body shape to be radical and avant-garde. Owens noted that he resents the extreme fashions shown by some of his peers; it’s his belief that subversive fashion should be wearable, and it shows in this collection.
