Rick Owens at the Palais Galliera

Event Description

The Palais Galliera, the city’s splendid fashion museum, is staging a retrospective on famed fashion designer Rick Owens on a scale and in a format never seen before- from inside the gorgeous museum galleries to outside the neoclassical edifice. To quote the curators: “California-born Owens began designing in Los Angeles in 1994 before moving to Paris in 2003. His spectacular shows feature silhouettes inspired by underground cultures and a decadent Hollywood glamour concept. Militantly political, he inveighs against the patriarchal grip on our societies and remains the only designer to have demonstrated women’s physical strength in collections that resemble performances. The structure of his creations, dominated by black and muted colours, reveals references ranging from Brutalist architecture to the legends of Parisian and New York haute couture, and including the great films of Hollywood’s early days.”