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Showing posts with label Rick Owen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rick Owen. Show all posts

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Paris Show Designer Rick Owens Fall 2011


RICK OWENS

"California born Rick Owens delivers a superbly crafted and proportioned collection for autumn/winter 2011"
...Hillary Alexander.

The tunics and loose trousers tucked into boots at Rick Owens' autumn/winter 2011 collection shown at the Paris prêt-à-porter season today, suggested a slight Cossack air to me. The designer, however, was quick to clarify my interpretation; I was way off the radar, by a few millennium, at least. "Cossack? No! I was thinking more caveman; you know, the idea of 'just throw a blanket over her'. That was my basis."
If indeed 'troglodytes' were Owens' starting point, then he has crafted a best-dressed 'Neanderthal look' which would suggest Raquel Welch in 'One Million Years B.C.' was very poorly served indeed, by the wardrobe department.
This was in no way a question of 'just throwing a blanket' over anyone. The collection was a superbly crafted, proportioned and coloured blend of pieces, which started with a hood, or knitted 'snood', and progressed through a series of layers, through to wedge-soled knee-boots.

Read more of Hillary's article at Telegraph.UK