cotonblanc:Rick Owens Photography Rick Owens It is entirely possible to count the fashion des
cotonblanc: Rick Owens Photography Rick Owens It is entirely possible to count the fashion designers Los Angeles has produced over the years on one hand, and most of the fingers will be allocated to designers who specialise in the glitzy stuff. Accordingly, the odds of finding a designer like Rick Owens in Los Angeles should be approximately zero. And the odds of Rick Owens actually thriving there? Worse still. “People will ask me who am I dressing for the Oscars,” Owens says. “Who the fuck would want to wear my clothes to the Oscars? My stuff is not about status. It’s all greyish-beige or beigish-grey.” And yet, oddly enough, after nearly ten years in business, Rick Owens likes it there. Owens grew up in northern California and moved south to study painting at Otis Parsons. He learned how to cut patterns at a local technical school and procured a job in the LA garment district with a company that made designer knock-offs. “They would only let you look at the Versace jacket for half an hour before they returned it to the store,” Owens recalls. “It was the most amazing training, though. It made you really accurate and really fast.” Before long he was making his own designer originals. Visionaire’s Fashion 2001: Designers of the New Avant-Garde by Stephen Gan -- source link