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Making Monsters With Rick Owens

His work has always cast a dark shadow, as a kind of elemental counterpoint to the rest of fashion.
Rick Owens Men's Autumn/Winter 2021. Rick Owens.
Rick Owens Men's Autumn/Winter 2021. Rick Owens.

Rick Owens was concerned on Thursday morning. The rest of the world was delirious with the promise of positive change following the previous day’s inaugural events in Washington, DC, and here Owens was on the Lido in Venice about to unleash a show that was steeped in the bad dream of the years that culminated in the storming of the very building where Joe Biden had just been hailed as optimism’s global standard bearer.

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