Upside-Down Models Are Just the Beginning—A Look Back at Rick Owens’s Runway Subversions Inline
Photo: Yannis Vlamos / Indigitalimages.com1/8Using buckled-together harnesses, Rick Owens pinned models together in strange formations, creating special garments for the paired-up muses.
Photo: Yannis Vlamos / Indigitalimages.com2/8We’d call his Fall 2015 menswear show the collection that launched a thousand—or more realistically, a million—clicks. The reason: those pants-less male models who left little to the imagination.
Photo: Marcus Tondo / Indigitalimages.com3/8For his Spring 2015 menswear outing, Owens sent out some models covered head-to-toe in steely gray paint.
Photo: Kim Weston Arnold / Indigitalimages.com4/8Fall 2014 saw the designer abandon traditional model casting in favor of using his adopted fashion family as vehicles to show his clothes.
Photo: Marcus Tondo / Indigitalimages.com5/8Owens enlisted step dancing sororities as the models for his Spring 2014 show.
