Rick Owens

Rick Owens developed his language within the Los Angeles underground scene of the 1990s before moving the centre of his activity to Paris in 2003. Rick Owens still maintains creative control of the brand today, building an intensely personal universe of monumental volumes, draping, leather, jersey, dark palettes and radical proportions. Architecture, brutalism, music and alternative culture feed a research process that continually challenges traditional codes of beauty. Ready-to-wear, sneakers, footwear and design objects share the same tension between austerity and theatricality, protection and provocation. Rick Owens interprets fashion as an expression of individuality and independence, maintaining a rare aesthetic coherence while continuing to evolve season after season.