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Rick Owens, Danielle Levitt
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Rick Owens remains one of the most daring and influential fashion
designers working today. Recently experimenting with new shapes,
the application of new materials, and an unprecedented use of
color, this book of entirely unpublished photographs will surprise
and delight his legion of devoted fans. Lavishly documenting men s
and women s collections and featuring Owens s continuing
collaboration with the photographer Danielle Levitt, this book is
an unabashed love letter to one of the most devoted followings in
contemporary fashion. Picking up where Rizzoli s previous monograph
on Owens s work left off, looks from his critically lauded homage
to the rock-and-roll designer Larry Legaspi set a frenzied visual
pace that never lets up right through the pandemic, when Owens
memorably staged shows on the Lido di Venezia. Here, the continued
evolution of nearly three decades of Owens s 'grunge-meets-glamour'
worldview is seen close up. Grace and grit are paired with an
obsession with structural transformation and movement, where
diaphanous, flowing shapes contrast with sharp objects. This formal
invention is matched by a mania for new and exotic materials. The
use of translucent bovine leathers, brightly dyed snakeskin, and
the hide of the pirarucu, a massive Amazonian fish, are applied to
old and new icons of the brand. Color is now firmly part of the
Owens legendarium, and a profligacy of pink, orange, blue, green,
and iridescent hues now vie with trademark black, oxblood, and dust
that have been part of the palette since the inception of the
brand. Owens s newest provocations, grounded by the portraiture of
Danielle Levitt, achieves a sublime unity in this essential volume.
Since the establishment of his label in 1994, Rick Owens has
transformed global fashion with his provocative clothing and
subversive style. Distinguished by his grunge-meets-glamour
aesthetic and defiant anti-fashion stance, Owens created a dark
fashion empire that has accrued a devoted international following
which gravitates toward the brand s sublime tailoring, somber
palette, mystical layers, and gritty elegance. Filled with
photographs of Owens s most impressive looks from the last decade,
this volume is conceived as a celebration of the Rick Owens
aesthetic, approximating with printing effects some of the mystery
and detailing associated with brand. Iconic imagery taken from
Owens s seminal lookbooks provides a unique look at the output of
design from an artist who is at once comfortable with developing
technologies and respectful of traditional approaches. With
principal photography by Danielle Levitt who achieved considerable
acclaim for her social-realist images this book is essential for
lovers of avant-garde fashion, photography, and design.
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