![]() He’s also become more and more of a celebrity favorite, beloved by stars such as Lil Uzi Vert, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, and Timothée Chalamet, who layered Rick Owens into his recent Met Gala look. He has received numerous accolades, including a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and is an industry darling despite remaining, to many, a bit of a dark horse. His label, which remains majority owned by him and Lamy, is a success story – to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue per year, thanks to his main collection, his diffusion lines, a furniture collection, brand partnerships and more. ![]() He relocated to Paris in 2003 with his partner Michèle Lamy, and now lives between the French capital and Venice, Italy’s Lido, where he keeps a penthouse flat that overlooks the sea (and where, during the Covid-19 pandemic, he staged and filmed intimate runway shows Thursday’s Paris catwalk marked his return to the city after a year and a half). Owens, who is half American and half Mexican (his mother is from Puebla, just a few hours outside of Mexico City), was born and raised in Porterville, California, before launching his namesake line in Los Angeles in 1994. Now, the house is re-interpreting sexy for today It seemed like an intellectual take on the current penchant for mixing and matching male and female models at the ready to wear shows.īut then Lanvin with its beautiful craftsmanship, and intellectual fashion, is always a step ahead-and all without the headline-grabbing antics of wrapping models around other models’ necks.Roberto Cavalli has clad celebrities in high-octane fashion for decades. Lanvin, meanwhile, sent out a show of great beauty, sophistication, and fragility, but one in which it was impossible to tell if the models were boys or girls. Manish Arora sent out a collection of dazzling gypsy disco queens created in his Delhi atelier by hand, in a show that featured disco lights, inspired by what he declared to be his own long-ago disco days, before declaring that he wished he could wear the dresses. There must be something in the air because there were other out-there moments to be had at Fashion Week today. Perez Hilton tweeted, “HUH?! #RickOwens’ models are wearing humans as backpacks down the runway!”, while Maxim tweeted what we’re all thinking as we look at the runway photos: “The height of #ParisFashionWeek is models 69ing on the runway.”īut this is unshockable Paris at its most unshockable at Fashion Week, and the audience of regulars was snap-happy rather than scandalized, and seemed more struck by the Gospel group discovered singing live in an alcove, as everyone filed out. Another could barely see, thanks to the saucy black boots dangling in front of his face. The legs were stuck in a stiff V around her neck. Another walked caught between the legs of a second body. ![]() It was if the model had brought along his S&M friend to a party and the two had got stuck together in the most uncompromising of positions.Īnd so the theme continued, with these misfits from an erotic get-together, stuck to one another in the most uncompromising positions, now on show for all to see.Īnother model walked with a second body scrunched around the neck, high heels poking up by the ears. But it wasn’t just any dead body but another model or a mannequin (it was hard to tell really) with her pubic area hanging just beneath the model’s nose, adding an erotic twist to the proceedings.
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