"RICK OWENS IS FOR EVERYONE!" - RICK OWENS

SS25 HOLLYWOOD MEN’S
THURSDAY 20 JUNE 2024
PALAIS DE TOKYO, 13 AVENUE DU PRÉSIDENT WILSON, 75116 PARIS

LAST SEASON’S COLLECTION WAS NAMED ‘PORTERVILLE’ AFTER THE SMALL JUDGEMENTAL TOWN I HAD TO ESCAPE FROM. THIS SEASON’S COLLECTION IS NAMED ‘HOLLYWOOD’ AFTER THE BOULEVARD OF VICE I GLEEFULLY RAN TO… TO FIND MY PEOPLE… WEIRDOS AND FREAKS… LIVING IN A WORLD LOU REED DESCRIBED IN ‘WALK ON THE WILD SIDE’... I WAS LOOKING FOR THE FLAMING CREATURES I HAD SEEN FILMED BY JACK SMITH AND KENNETH ANGER…

AND I ALWAYS REFERENCE THE LOST HOLLYWOOD OF PRE-CODE BLACK AND WHITE BIBLICAL EPICS, MIXING ART DECO, LURID SIN AND REDEEMING MORALITY.

MY PERSONAL PETER BERLINS WEAR THRASHED GYM SHORTS AND CHIFFON CAPES WITH JUMBO GEOBASKETS THE SIZE OF SPACE BOOTS.

CAPES AND JKTS ALSO COME IN A NARROW LOOMED JAPANESE DENIM WITH A TARNISHED GOLD MEGACRUST COATING. ALL OUR DENIM IS TREATED IN AN ITALIAN WASH HOUSE BASED IN THE VENETO AREA OF ITALY THAT PRODUCES IN SMALLER TREATMENT BATHS TO REDUCE WATER WASTE AND UTILIZE A WATER PURIFYING PROCESS THAT ENABLES THEM TO RECYCLE A PORTION OF THE WATER USED. ALL OF OUR DENIM WASHES ARE ZDHC CERTIFIED.

HOODED BIKER JKTS COME IN A MILKY CANVAS BONDED WITH ALUMINUM FOIL, OR VEG TANNED PARCHMENT COW HIDE FROM THE SOLOFRA AND TUSCANY REGIONS OF ITALY. VEG TANNING MEANS ONLY VEGETAL AND NATURAL TANNINS WERE USED IN THE PROCESS OF TANNING AND PRESERVING THIS LEATHER.

THESE ARE WORN OVER JUMPSUITS OR GOWNS IN SILK GAZAR WOVEN IN THE COMO REGION OF ITALY AND MADE FROM GOTS CERTIFIED ORGANIC SILK WHICH MEANS THE NATURAL FIBER IS MADE WITHOUT HARMFUL CHEMICALS.

KNIT BODYSUITS AND T-SHIRTS ARE A COLLABORATION WITH TANJA VIDIC, A RECENT FASHION GRADUATE FROM SLOVENIA WHO MAKES THE MOST IMAGINATIVE DIY KNITS I HAVE EVER SEEN.

SILVER SILK CHARMEUSE ROBES ARE FROM FINA, A COLLECTION DESIGNED BY DAFNE BALATSOS, WHO HAS BEEN WORKING WITH ME FOR 25 YEARS– FOR THE FIRST FIVE YEARS, JUST THE 2 OF US AND ONE SEWER. BACK THEN, PART OF HER JOB WAS TO GO BUY A FEW METERS OF SILK AT ORIENTAL SILKS ON BEVERLY BOULEVARD IN HOLLYWOOD TO FILL OUR SMALL ORDERS SINCE I COULD ONLY AFFORD A FEW METERS AT A TIME. ORIENTAL SILKS WAS A HUSHED AND METICULOUSLY ORGANIZED SANDALWOOD INCENSE SMELLING STORE RUN BY A QUIETLY SEVERE BROTHER AND SISTER TEAM WHO WERE VERY KIND TO US. A FEW YEARS AGO, WHEN SHE FOUND OUT ORIENTAL SILKS HAD CLOSED, SHE TRACKED DOWN THEIR REMAINING STOCK AND HAS BEEN MAKING BEAUTIFUL ROBES AND PAJAMAS FOR US ALL AND AGREED TO SELL THEM IN OUR U.S. STORES…

OUR HAIR MAESTRO DUFFY’S PLATINUM MARCELLED HAIR DESIGN FROM LAST SEASON HAS EVOLVED INTO ART DECO CROWNS MADE IN COLLABORATION WITH COCO LUCQUIAUD, A PARISIAN HAT-MAKING INSTITUTION.

SHOES ARE EITHER SUEDE MARSHMALLOW SPLINT SANDALS, OR A DEFLATED LEATHER VERSION OF OUR STRAYTUKAY INFLATED BOOT COLLAB FROM LAST SEASON.

OUR GYMNAST BOUQUET IS ARRANGED BY YLVA FALK WHO COMPOSED THE WOMEN CARRYING WOMEN IN OUR CYCLOPS SHOW 9 YEARS AGO.

AFTER SHOWING IN THE HOUSE LAST SEASON, I FELT BAD ABOUT MAKING ATTENDANCE SO RESTRICTED SO THIS TIME AROUND I WANTED TO WELCOME EBERYONE. I ASKED ALL THE FASHION SCHOOLS IN PARIS TO SEND US STUDENTS AND FACULTY, MEN OR WOMEN, WHO WOULD LIKE TO WALK IN THIS WHITE SATIN ARMY OF LOVE. ALSO INCLUDED ARE OLD FRIENDS LIKE JAKOB JAKOBSSON WHO OPENED MY SECOND SHOW IN NEW YORK 22 YEARS AGO, AND ALLANAH STARR, ONE OF THE GRANDE DAMES OF THE TRANS COMMUNITY FROM NY TO PARIS.

EXPRESSING OUR INDIVIDUALITY IS GREAT BUT SOMETIMES EXPRESSING OUR UNITY AND RELIANCE ON EACH OTHER IS A GOOD THING TO REMEMBER TOO… ESPECIALLY IN THE FACE OF THE PEAK INTOLERANCE WE ARE EXPERIENCING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW…

CASTING: AM CASTING (CLM)
HAIR: DUFFY (STREETERS)
MAKEUP: DANIEL SALLSTROM (MA WORLD GROUP)
PRODUCTION: LA MODE EN IMAGES
MUSIC: BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO.7 IN A MAJOR OP. 92 – II. ALLEGRETTO CONDUCTED BY CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN WITH THE WIENER PHILHARMONIKER MIXED BY JEFF JUDD

“PERSONAL EXPRESSION IS REALLY WONDERFUL, BUT SOMETIMES MAKING AN EFFORT TO CONSIDER UNITY, AND SUPPORTING EACH OTHER, THAT’S A GREAT EXPRESSION, TOO.” -RICK OWENS, WWD BY MILES SOCHA

SS25 HOLLYWOOD WOMEN’S
THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2024, 17H30
PALAIS DE TOKYO, 13 AVENUE DU PRÉSIDENT WILSON, 75116 PARIS

OUR LAST SHOW PRESENTED A WHITE SATIN ARMY OF LOVE, MY RESPONSE TO THE REALIZATION THAT HOLDING THE PREVIOUS SEASON’S SHOWS IN MY HOUSE WITH A REDUCED AUDIENCE ENDED UP BEING AN ACT OF EXCLUSION INSTEAD OF THE OBSERVANCE OF RESPECT IN THE FACE OF OUR CURRENT WARS THAT I HAD INTENDED.

I HAVE ONCE AGAIN ASKED ALL THE FASHION SCHOOLS IN PARIS TO SEND US STUDENTS AND FACULTY, TO WALK IN THE SHOW AS AN EXPRESSION OF UNITY AND RELIANCE ON ONE ANOTHER.

ALSO INCLUDED ARE MEMBERS OF THE OWENSCORP TEAM AND FRIENDS WHOM I ADMIRE FOR LIVING THEIR AESTHETIC SO COMPLETELY AND GENEROUSLY, LIKE HANNAH DALTON FROM FECAL MATTER, ARTIST BAYBJANE, PHOTOGRAPHER KRISTINA NAGEL, AND ALLANAH STARR, ONE OF THE GRANDE DAMES OF THE TRANS COMMUNITY FROM NY TO PARIS.

LAST SEASON’S COLLECTION WAS NAMED ‘PORTERVILLE’ AFTER THE SMALL JUDGEMENTAL TOWN I HAD TO ESCAPE FROM. THIS SEASON’S COLLECTION IS NAMED ‘HOLLYWOOD’ AFTER THE BOULEVARD OF VICE I GLEEFULLY RAN TO…TO FIND MY PEOPLE… WEIRDOS AND FREAKS... LIVING IN A WORLD LOU REED DESCRIBED IN ‘WALK ON THE WILD SIDE’… I WAS LOOKING FOR THE FLAMING CREATURES I HAD SEEN FILMED BY JACK SMITH AND KENNETH ANGER… OR KEN RUSSEL. AND I ALWAYS REFERENCE THE LOST HOLLYWOOD OF PRE-CODE BLACK AND WHITE BIBLICAL EPICS, MIXING ART DECO, LURID SIN AND REDEEMING MORALITY.

RIGID TAILORING IS TRANSPARENT AND DELICATE IN SILK CHIFFON AND TULLE TO BE WORN AS FRAGILE CAPES, OVER THRASHED DENIM CUTOFFS AND THIS SEASON’S DEFLATED VERSION OF LAST SEASON’S INFLATED BOOTS MADE IN COLLABORATION WITH LONDON DESIGNER STRAYTUKAY. THE BOOTS ON MOST LOOKS ALSO HAVE ADDED SHIN CARGOPACKS.

FLOWING CAPES OR MEGAFRILLED DONUT SHRUGS ALSO COME IN SILK CHIFFON WOVEN IN THE COMO REGION OF ITALY AND MADE FROM GOTS CERTIFIED ORGANIC SILK WHICH MEANS THE NATURAL FIBER IS MADE WITHOUT HARMFUL CHEMICALS. SOFT HOODED TUNICS IN CHARMEUSE OR TRANSPARENT JERSEY ARE MADE OF CUPRO, A BIODEGRADABLE AND 100% PLANT-BASED FIBER MADE FROM COTTON WASTE THAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE DISCARDED.

BLACK CHARMEUSE ROBES ARE FROM FINA, A COLLECTION DESIGNED BY DAFNE BALATSOS WHO HAS BEEN WORKING WITH ME FOR 25 YEARS — FOR THE FIRST FIVE YEARS, JUST THE 2 OF US AND ONE SEWER. BACK THEN, PART OF HER JOB WAS TO GO BUY A FEW METERS OF SILK AT ORIENTAL SILKS ON BEVERLY BOULEVARD IN HOLLYWOOD TO FILL OUR SMALL ORDERS SINCE I COULD ONLY AFFORD A FEW METERS AT A TIME. ORIENTAL SILKS WAS A HUSHED AND METICULOUSLY ORGANIZED SANDALWOOD INCENSE SMELLING STORE RUN BY A QUIETLY SEVERE BROTHER AND SISTER TEAM WHO WERE VERY KIND TO US. A FEW YEARS AGO, WHEN SHE FOUND OUT ORIENTAL SILKS HAD CLOSED, SHE TRACKED DOWN THEIR REMAINING STOCK AND HAS BEEN MAKING BEAUTIFUL ROBES AND PAJAMAS FOR US ALL AND AGREED TO SELL THEM IN OUR U.S. STORES…

TRANSPOSABLE ZIPPED JACKETS AND COATS ARE MADE IN RIGID COTTON AND RECYCLED POLYESTER CANVAS MADE ON VINTAGE NARROW LOOMS AS A PART OF OUR ONGOING COLLABORATION WITH BONOTTO, A 4TH GENERATION TEXTILE MILL FOUNDED IN 1912 SITUATED JUST BELOW THE PREALPS IN VENETO.

HOODED GIRDER-SHOULDERED BIKER JACKETS ARE CROPPED OR OVERSIZED AND MADE IN VEG TANNED LAMB HIDE FROM THE SOLOFRA REGION OF ITALY, OR MADE FROM ITALIAN-TANNED JUMBO SCALED AMERICAN ALLIGATOR.

KNIT GOWNS IN DUST GREY MERINO WOOL OR METALLIC GOLD ARE A CONTINUATION OF OUR COLLABORATION WITH TANJA VIDIC, A KNITWEAR DESIGNER FROM SLOVENIA WHO MAKES THE MOST IMAGINATIVE DIY KNITS I HAVE EVER SEEN.

GODDESS GOWNS ARE CUT IN DENIM WITH A TARNISHED GOLD MEGACRUST COATING. ALL OUR DENIM IS TREATED IN AN ITALIAN WASH HOUSE BASED IN THE VENETO AREA OF ITALY THAT PRODUCES IN SMALLER TREATMENT BATHS TO REDUCE WATER WASTE AND UTILIZE A WATER PURIFYING PROCESS THAT ENABLES THEM TO RECYCLE A PORTION OF THE WATER USED. ALL OF OUR DENIM WASHES ARE ZDHC CERTIFIED.

OUR BLACK LEATHER ART DECO CROWNS ARE MADE IN COLLABORATION WITH COCO LUCQUAID, A PARISIAN HAT MAKING INSTITUTION.

EXPRESSING OUR INDIVIDUALITY IS GREAT BUT SOMETIMES WE NEED TO EMBRACE OUR COMMONALITIES… ESPECIALLY IN THE FACE OF THE PEAK INTOLERANCE WE ARE EXPERIENCING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW…

CASTING: ANGUS MUNRO (CLM)
HAIR: DUFFY (STREETERS)
MAKEUP: MAC COSMETICS AND DANIEL SALLSTROM (MA WORLD GROUP)
PRODUCTION: LA MODE EN IMAGES
MUSIC: WAGNER, TRISTAN UND ISOLDE PRELUDE TO ACT 1, LANGSAM UND SCHMACHTEND CONDUCTED BY CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN WITH THE WIENER STAATSOPER ORCHESTRA MIXED BY JEFF JUDD

”IN A NOTE SENT OUT TO EDITORS JUST AFTER THE SHOW, RICK EXPLAINED THAT HIS HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION WASN’T INSPIRED BY OUR MODERN DAY STARS AND STARLETS, BUT THE PRE-CODE BLACK AND WHITE BIBLICAL EPICS THAT MIX “ART DECO, LURID SIN AND REDEEMING MORALITY.” THE PRE-CODE ERA SPANNED JUST A SHORT TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, THE HALCYON DAYS OF 1931 TO 1934, BEFORE THE HAYS CODE WAS PROPERLY ENFORCED AND CHANGED WHAT COULD BE SHOWN ON SCREEN. THE FILMS THAT RICK REFERENCES IN HIS COLLECTION – LIKE 1933’S HOMO-EROTICALLY CHARGED LOT IN SODOM, AND 1932’S CONTROVERSIAL THE SIGN OF THE CROSS – WERE BOTH MADE IN THIS ERA, AND SUBJECT TO STRICT CENSURE AFTERWARDS.” -DAZED BY EMMA ELIZABETH DAVIDSON

“WHEN I HAD BEEN WORKING AS A PATTERNMAKER IN OTHER COMPANIES BEFORE I MET MICHÈLE, I HAD A SEWER NAMED JULIA FOR YEARS…I’D CUT THE FABRICS AND GIVE THEM TO HER TO SEW…FROM THERE, WE’D WORK ON THE FIT AND WE’D SEND IT OUT SOMEWHERE TO BE GRADED INTO SIZES. WE HAD A CUTTER IN THE SAME BUILDING WHO WOULD MAKE A SMALL RUN, AND WE’D SELL THEM IN THE GARMENT DISTRICT SOMEWHERE. JULIA AND I BECAME GOOD FRIENDS BECAUSE WE HAD TO WORK TOGETHER ALL DAY - AFTER A LONG TIME TOGETHER, JULIA TOLD ME I SHOULD REPLACE HER WITH HER HUSBAND, RICARDO, WHO WAS SURLY, GRUFF AND A LITTLE BIT ILL-TEMPERED - AND ONE OF THE BEST SEWERS I’VE EVER KNOWN. THEY ALWAYS SAY THAT SUCH A SMALL PERCENTAGE IS INSPIRATION AND THE REST IS EXECUTION, AND I FEEL LIKE THE QUALITY OF RICARDO’S WORK IS WHAT DEFINED THE WAY OUR CLOTHES WERE AT THAT TIME – IT WAS WHAT MADE THEM SO SPECIAL. HIS SEWING WAS SO EXQUISITE AND PRECISE; IT’S LIKE HANDWRITING, THERE’S JUST A FLAVOR THAT HE ADDED.” -RICK OWENS

RICK OWENS APPROACHED TANJA VIDIC TO COLLABORATE WITH HIM ON A KNITWEAR PROGRAM FOR HIS MEN’S AND WOMEN’S PRE- AND RUNWAY COLLECTIONS.

”I DM’ED TANJA ON INSTAGRAM - THAT’S WHERE I FIND EVERYONE! SHE MAKES THE MOST IMAGINATIVE DIY KNITS I HAVE EVER SEEN.” RICK OWENS

“I’M A KNITWEAR DESIGNER, ORIGINALLY FROM LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA, NOW BASED IN SWEDEN. MY WORK IS ALL ABOUT QUESTIONING THE USUAL WAYS OF WORKING WITH KNITWEAR AND PUSHING BEYOND WHAT’S EXPECTED IN THE FIELD. WHAT EXCITES ME ABOUT KNITS IS HOW THEY ALLOW ME TO DESIGN IN A WAY THAT FEELS MORE ORGANIC AND INTUITIVE, MORE THAN I EVER DID WITH OTHER TEXTILES, AS WELL AS THE ABILITY TO SHAPE GARMENTS DIRECTLY IN THE MACHINE, REDUCING WASTE, AND MAKING THE WHOLE PROCESS SUPER CREATIVE AND EXCITING. KNITS ARE STRETCHY, AND MOLDABLE AND REALLY ALLOW ME TO APPROACH THE BODY FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE, WORKING CLOSE TO IT, MINDING, ENHANCING, (SOMETIMES EXTENDING) ITS FORM, AND SENSUALLY REVEALING THE PARTS NOT USUALLY BEING CENTERED ON.” -TANJA VIDIC

“THERE’S A VIDEO ON YOUTUBE SOMEONE FOUND OF ME ON MTV AT AROUND THIS TIME, IN 1988. LOOKING AT IT NOW, OF COURSE, I CRINGE. BUT OBJECTIVELY IT’S AN INTERESTING TIME CAPSULE. I’M INCREDIBLY COCKY. AND YOU KNOW, I JUST DON’T REMEMBER HAVING THAT CONFIDENCE — A CONFIDENCE BORDERING ON ARROGANCE. AND I DON’T THINK I WAS HIGH, ALTHOUGH I MIGHT HAVE HAD A COCKTAIL OR SOMETHING. I THINK I WAS JUST PERFORMING, FRANTICALLY PERFORMING, OVERCOMPENSATING FOR BEING SHY. AND I WONDER IF THAT’S WHAT I WAS LIKE WHEN I FIRST MET HER.” -RICK OWENS SMALL PRINT: SOURCE: “MY FIRST JOB IN FASHION: RICK OWENS, VOGUE BUSINESS BY RICK OWENS AS TOLD TO LUKE LEITCH, JANUARY 22, 2025”

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“ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, I HAD RICCARDO AND DAPHNE. WHEN I WAS DRIVING OUT TO LOOK AT LEATHERS, DAPHNE WAS DRIVING OUT SOMEWHERE ELSE TO GET THE CASHMERE FOR OUR KNITWEAR. WE WERE MOSTLY GOING TO RAGFINDERS IN DOWNTOWN LA, WHICH WAS A WAREHOUSE THAT HAD ALL OF THESE REMNANTS OF FABRIC… SO I’D BUY TWENTY METERS OF THIS, TEN METERS OF THAT…THEY ALWAYS HAD A VISCOSE SATIN I USED FOR MY BIAS PANTS AND A VISCOSE JERSEY I USED FOR MY T-SHIRTS. THERE WAS ANOTHER OLD TAILORING PLACE IN DOWNTOWN LA – VERY TRADITIONAL AND OLDSCHOOL, AND THAT’S WHERE I ALWAYS GOT ALL OF OUR WOOLS. THE SILK CHIFFONS WE ALWAYS GOT FROM ORIENTAL SILKS.” -RICK OWENS

“THE FABRICS WE FOUND WERE ALWAYS CLASSIC, BUT WITH SOME KIND OF VINTAGE INTEGRITY. LIKE SILK GEORGETTE…OR THE CLASSIC SUITING WOOLS, OR OUR LEATHERS.” -RICK OWENS

“THEN I GOT THE DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH ELSA AND LUCA, AND WE WENT TO THE OLMAR AND MIRTA FACTORY AND TALKED THEM INTO A LICENSE, AND THAT’S WHEN I STARTED MAKING REAL FABRIC APPOINTMENTS. SUDDENLY I COULD HAVE ANY FABRIC I WANTED! AND I MADE A LOT OF MISTAKES…THE DYES WEREN’T ALWAYS SATURATING IN THE WAY I’D SEEN IN MY HEAD AND THEY ENDED UP KIND OF PHONY LOOKING…BUT THEN I GRADUALLY LEARNED.” -RICK OWENS

OVER 25 YEARS AGO, RICK OWENS CONTACTED A TANNERY IN THE SOUTH OF ITALY REQUESTING A LEATHER WITH THE SOFTNESS AND LIGHT WEIGHT OF SILK. AFTER A NUMBER OF TESTS, THE ARTISANS WORKED THE LEATHER BACKWARDS IN ORDER TO BRING IT TO NEAR-RUIN. WITH THIS, OUR BLISTER LEATHER WAS BORN.

EXCLUSIVE TO THE RICK OWENS BRAND AND KNOWN FOR ITS UNEVEN, BLISTERED TEXTURE AND A SOFT, FLUID HAND-FEEL, THE BLISTER QUALITY IS ACHIEVED BY EXAGGERATING THE NATURAL GRAIN OF EACH SKIN, GUARANTEEING THAT THE LOOK OF EACH PIECE IS UNIQUE.

IN ADDITION TO BLISTER LEATHER, OUR SUGAR AND TAMPONATO LEATHERS ARE TANNED IN THE SAME INNOVATIVE, FAMILY-OWNED TANNERY NOW IN ITS THIRD GENERATION. FOUNDED IN 1966 AS A SMALL ARTISANAL BUSINESS FOCUSED ON THE NAILING AND SHAVING OF LAMBSKIN, THEIR FULL-SCALE TANNERY IS NOW AN INTERNATIONAL LEADER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BESPOKE TANNING PROCESSES UNDER STRICT MEASURES TO PROTECT THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

FOR THE SS25 HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION, WE PRESENT TAMPONATO CALF LEATHER: A SKIN WITH A SMOOTH, MATTE SURFACE, FINISHED USING A TECHNIQUE CALLED ”TAMPONATURA,” IN WHICH THE BLACK COLOR AND WAX ARE APPLIED AFTER THE SKIN HAS BEEN TANNED AND DYED.

THE BLACK COLOR WILL BEGIN RUB OFF WITH WEAR, GIVING EACH GARMENT ITS OWN UNIQUE LOOK.

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“FIRST I WENT TO ART SCHOOL, BUT THEN I COULDN'T REALLY AFFORD THAT. I JUST LACKED THE INTELLECTUAL STAMINA TO BE A SERIOUS ARTIST, AND I WAS INTIMIDATED BY THE THEORY CLASSES, WHICH WERE SUCH THEORETICAL BULLSHIT. SO I DROPPED OUT AND GOT A JOB. I WAS AN OFFICE ASSISTANT FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATION FIRM. IT WAS A VERY CHIC ENVIRONMENT FOR A YOUNG GUY LIKE ME. I DID THAT FOR A WHILE TO SURVIVE AND SUPPORT MYSELF. MEANWHILE, I WENT TO TRADE SCHOOL TO LEARN PATTERNMAKING, WHICH CAME TO ME QUITE NATURALLY. THEN I GOT A JOB AT A MANUFACTURER THAT DID KNOCK-OFFS. THEY WOULD BRING ME IN A CLAUDE MONTANA T-SHIRT OR A VERSACE JACKET, AND I WOULD COPY THE PATTERN FOR THEM. I DID THAT FOR A FEW YEARS UNTIL I GOT INTRODUCED TO MICHÉLE [LAMY] AND WAS OFFERED A JOB AS A PATTERNMAKER AT HER COMPANY.” -RICK OWENS SMALL PRINT: SOURCE: “BRENDA’S BUSINESS WITH RICK OWENS, 032C MAGAZINE BY BRENDA WEISCHER, DECEMBER 5, 2022”

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