Born in 1962, Rick Owens is an American fashion designer hailing from California, celebrated for his avant garde and subversive eye. His own label which begun in 1994 and quickly found a following. Owens showed his first runway collection in September of 2002 during New York Fashion Week. In the same year, he won the Council of Fashion Designers of America Perry Ellis Emerging Talent Award. In 2007 he was awarded a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. Owen’s look has been described as “glamour-meets-grunge”, but Owens himself says “I try to make clothes the way Lou Reed does music, with minimal chord changes, and direct. It is sweet but kind of creepy. It’s about giving everything I make a worn, softened feeling. It’s about an elegance being tinged with a bit of the barbaric, the sloppiness of something dragging and the luxury of not caring.”
SPRING/SUMMER 2013
