Rick Owens Joins Many Other Designers in Representing Today's Society Problems

"So far this menswear season, we’ve seen designers react to the way the world feels perched on a precipice. In London, J.W.Anderson swathed models in familiar crochet blankets and Craig Green discussed the fear of the unknown, while in Milan Donatella Versace championed unity and Jeremy Scott presented an army-inspired collection which he said was about fighting for everything you believe in. Since summer, when Brexit happened smack bang in the middle of the shows, we’ve been thrust into a world which feels at its most divided in recent memory, and where today, a self-proclaimed pussy grabber is about to become the leader of free world. Yesterday in Paris (which, of course, has its own rising right wing) Rick Owens responded to all of this in the way only he can:

“The clothes were basically about fear, that’s what those are,” he said.” 

Backstage photography Lucie Rox
for Dazed Digital

Text Emma Hope Allwood 

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