Rick Owens opened the doors of his brutalist home, literally, transforming it into an improvised catwalk suspended between darkness and provocation on which he presented his collection entitled ‘PORTERVILLE‘, in honour of his birthplace.
The Californian’s alternative vision of fashion once again subverted the standards of luxury with a runway show at PFW that returned to his origins, inviting the audience to enter his dystopian Parisian abode. A three-storey townhouse on Place du Palais Bourbon where he lives with his partner and muse Michèle Lamy.
Amidst this brutalist and extravagant house as a backdrop of concrete, art and furniture designed by himself, his models began to walk through the different spaces, dressed in giant inflatable boots – created in collaboration with Straytukay – attached to full leather outfits, while others wandered masked from one room to another.
Owens’ warriors
Owens’ FW24 collection channelled the art of provocation, inflation and exaggeration with extravagant looks in XXL, bulbous, inflatable contraptions and cage-like figures wrapped around the heads of apocalyptic models. A community connected by the brand’s intrinsic obscurantism in a show that, as usual, was opened by Tyrone, this time shirtless, but with a long-sleeved jumper around his waist, a bulbous necklace and puffy trousers around his calves.
Among the standout pieces was also an oversized jumper with the word Porterville inscribed on it, made on the basis of disproportion and deformation, in aesthetic synchrony with the rest of the collection. A concept that also constructed (or deconstructed) a series of triangle-shaped puffers with geometric stitching.
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