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First Look: Rick Owens SS09 Collection

Rick Owens does it again with another amazing collection that I am dying to have. The fact that this collection is in black and white and is still amazing just goes to show how well designed this collection is. I am a major fan of the drop crotch shorts, and I am so excited to finally get a pair. Don’t know how I feel about the leather “Ugg” looking boots, but that’s no biggie because the rest of the collection rocks.

Thanks to The Fashion Spot for the images.

The Inter-Views of Fashion: Rick Owens

A Californian living in Paris since 2003, Rick Owens was worried about losing track of his roots. “I was so conscious of getting a fake euro accent, I started exaggerating my California accent,” he laughs, “so now I’m a cartoon.”

On the verge of launching his third store – this time in London – California’s favorite goth talks with Lauren Cochrane of PonyStep;

You mention ‘minimalist goth’ for the Dust collection. What do you love about gothic style?

Right now, my favorite goth moment is Tina Turner singing ‘Acid Queen’ from Tommy. Youtube it. There’s sex, death, capes, platform boots and drugs. It’s exaggerated, sensational and silly. My favourite things.   

Do you have inspirations that you come back to all the time?

It’s always back to Bauhaus – the design school and the band. Opera, toujours opera….oh, and Kiss. Recently, autumn/winter was inspired by joyful and playful transgression. Spring was more about restraint, discipline and sacrifice. 

Both collections seem to show a newly slick Rick…

I feel like I’ve finally learned to drive my machine. When you first learn stick shift, you awkwardly lurch and stall, but gradually you learn to shift the gears more smoothly. I knew how to make clothes but had a lot to learn in presentation. And I had a lot to learn about communicating with a lot of other people in a lot of languages I didn’t know, according to a lot of schedules that I had to learn for the first time. I’d been doing it freestyle on my own for so long. 

You design furniture, denim and jersey along with the main line. Is it difficult switching from each of them?

Not really, it’s all part of the same story. Furniture is the next natural human envelope after clothes, and building is the next after that. I’m talking with some friends about a hotel. Wouldn’t that be a cool thing to do?  

It would indeed. A new store in London is first, though…Why the UK?

The Paris store was a fluke because that space became available and the Palais Royal was one of my favorite spots in Paris. I didn’t really expect it to be successful but it surprised us.  So we became open to the idea of opening stores. An opportunity came up in New York, we opened that last July and the results couldn’t be better. I don’t really know about London though – they seem pretty fancy. I might not be their cup of tea, we’ll have to wait and see. 

You’re certainly well thought of in London – especially with your support of Gareth Pugh. How did you discover his work?

He interned for me at Revillon [the fur house where Owens was Creative Director until 2006] for half a minute, but it was Michele [Lamy, Owens’ wife and business partner] who nurtured him. She’s the loving overindulgent mother and I’m the distant critical father. My faith in Gareth stems from identifying with him.  He’d be making clothes if we were paying attention to him or not.  He has a ferocious focus. 

Were you proud to see his first show in Paris?

It was actually the third show I’d ever been to in my life. The first was Gaultier more than 20 years ago and the second was Raf Simons two years ago. I was proud to be Gareth’s friend. 

What about you? When was your own proudest moment?

I was listening to the Sisters of Mercy as I was walking home across the bridge from Place de la Concorde one day and felt a surge of emotion. It was under such different conditions than those in which I’d listened to them in my youth.

Thanks Highsnobette

TrendSpark: The Mummy Look

Martin Margiela

Balmain

Haider Ackerman

Balenciaga

Rick Owens

Spring/Summer 2009 brought back King Tut from his tomb and slapped him directly on the runways of New York Fashion Week. Several designers reincarnated the draping, wrapping and ruching with a modern twist. While this trend is very similar to inspiration from ancient Greek fashion, careful not confuse it…Zeus wouldn’t be caught a day in his immortal life wearing gauzy strips or pleated sleeves. 

I know the thermometers have just dropped and spring seems several snow and ice storms away, but keep the mummy look in the back of your mind until you can “unwrap” it in March! 

Thanks JC Report!

Has Fashion Gone Ugly?

Balenciaga

Judging by the latest spring/summer collections, the fashion industry has taken a deliberately ugly turn. Dowdy or even monstrous silhouettes, discordant combinations of fabrics and colors along with unsightly hair and makeup ruled the runway, while show-goers frequently hid behind oversized glasses in a mock-display of concealment.

Fendi

An abundance of looks featured odd shapes, such as Hussein Chalayan’s fierce molded latex spikes and Alexander McQueen’s skirts with colossal hips and body suits set off by sharp winged shoulders. Many collections also featured grossly oversized garb—a bulky, rigid white dress at Calvin Klein draped over the model as naturally as a cardboard box, a bulbous top at Fendi shifted stiffly from side to side with the model’s steps and a model swimming in a huge top and cuffed capris at Isaac Mizrahi resembled a little girl dressing up in her mother’s clothes.

Hussein Chalayan

Alexander McQueen

Jumbling together unexpected materials was another trend: Junya Watanabe layered rich African-print skirts over baggy cuffed jeans; Gaultier mixed things up by showing a body suit worn on top of a pair of pants; and Christopher Kane had a garish, transparent pumpkin-orange dress trimmed in black fur. Some styles were more sinister in their hideousness. The unsettling, aggressive silhouettes at Comme des Garàons featured cutouts that revealed a misshapen, unattractive portion of the model’s stomach. Maison Martin Margiela’s spectacular and spooky collection featured decidedly unsexy nude-and-white body suits, and disturbing looks such as models bound in ribbons of fabric, their faces concealed by stockings or a cascade of hair.

Commes des Garcons

Calvin Klein

The unsightly trend even extended to accessories and beauty. Gaultier featured a fur stole, complete with all four legs, while Rick Owens had his models’ feet wrapped in trash bag like leather fabrics. Behnaz Sarafpour and Balenciaga showed models who looked like they hadn’t slept in days, their eyes rimmed in shiny brown shadow. At Fendi, runway mane had been teased into spikes, and a rats nest was the hairstyle of choice at Alberta Ferretti.

Christopher Kane

Rick Owens

This ugly aesthetic is also reflected in everyday society. Too—chipped nails are being flaunted on the streets of Manhattan as well as the fingertips of celebrities, while dentists report that patients are requesting their veneers appear less-than-flawless (adding a rounded corner or slight rotation of a tooth here and there, gradating their shade instead of making them snow white). More women are also opting to go sans makeup, wearing baggy tops or pants that disguise rather than show-off their shape.

It doesn’t take more than an awkward smile from Ugly Betty to prove that perfection is pretty boring in its stagnant singularity. The real intrigue sets in when you let yourself branch out from the paragon and explore more multifaceted possibilities. Even if the look isn’t “pretty,” it grabs attention and penetrates the surface—you can’t just glide blissfully by.

Written by Molly Triffin of JC Report

What do you think indies, has fashion gone UGLY?

Rick Owens and the Attack of the Nun Clones

Some say there is nothing hotter than a Catholic School girl, but in Rick Owens world it’s the naughty nun that needs some attention. 

I’m on the fence with this collection of nunnery wear. It looks like Rick, who took a page from the Dark Knight for his last collection is off to the monastery with his new look, a collection of updated papal remnants to bring you back to your days at church.

So what do you think indies? Has Rick Owens finally reinvented the nun for a new generation or will the Pope not be pleased?

Photos from the kind folks at WWD.

Rick Owns Goes Bondage With His Leather Wedge Booties

I came across these amazing Rick Owens wedge ankle boots over the weekend and I loved them so much, I decided to share the love with all of you. Incase you have been in a coma for about the last month, bondage is rediculously hot right now, and these wedges just further prove my point. You can purchase these sexy runway stompers at Brown’s Fashion, and then proceed to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Thanks Is Mental for these amazing boots.