Index Code:

FAS–OTH–OWE

Orgin:

Porterville, USA / Paris, France

Field Notes:

brutality as beauty · body as monument · rebellion as faith

Defining Moment:

Spring 2014 — Vicious collection turned power into choreography; brutality recast as grace

Rick Owens

(

1994 – present

)

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Owens builds cathedrals from decay.

Leather and drape become monuments to severity, each silhouette both ruin and ritual.

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His world fuses discipline and distortion — ascetic yet divine — where the body becomes temple and rebellion a form of prayer.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Rick Owens’s work, this approach appears where elongation structures presence.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Rick Owens’s work, this approach appears where elongation structures presence.

Hard Systems

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Proportion

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Design

Function, system, and material are resolved through purposeful form.

Contemporary

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Rick Owens

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Position

Body as Measure

Observartory

In Dialogue

Rick Owens

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Position

Body as Measure

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue