Everyone was speechless when new woman, powerful woman, come down the platform in place of usual ghostly, alien-thin models. Owens Spring-Summer collection wasn’t a fashion show, it was a real unconventional dance show.
What he want is creating a “new beauty” rejecting conventional channels. He Makes fashion accessible and human, and puts woman in control their selves giving self-confidence and fierce.
Not only the people chosen were unusual because of these issues but also their behaviour was completely unexpected on the podium of the catwalk.
Owens gets inspired by stepping -an hybrid of step dancing-, cheerleading and military drill, all discipline that are competitive and hard. On the runway there was dancer, selected from different sorority’s team, who performed in an exceptional stepping.
As everything that is out of common, this show cold be blameable but Rick Owens is established enough to do almost anything he wants, most of all if his show is tightly on point and visionary.
The collection instead was really stunning, and the attention should be on the designs rather then the dancer.
The clothing looks are functional, comfortable and flatly simple but sophisticated as Owen’s style, from the dusty shades of black, charcoal and stone, to the battered textures and drifting, slightly monumental shapes.
The shapes have been adapted to the movement and the physique of the individual, there are tunics that look like street-fight uniform, togas, chitons, corsets and shields. Besides shorts, tracksuits and T-shirts are cut with oversize generous proportion and stratified to obtain an armour and malleable effect.
Tops and shorts are made with the megaduchesse stiff, dense and thick woven cotton, that make them soft and adherents, silk turbogazar boiled leans slightly to the body giving movement’s effect and nappa washed suede allows manufacturing of light and sough shape.
Just one more thing, please don’t judge without seeing the video of show, images won’t be enough to understand Owen presentation.
By Barbara Boni
VIP LUXURY SERVICE CLUB 