Paris Men’s Fashion Week: Rick Owens’ collection makes a point with 3D ‘ode to Tower of Babel’
Models wear tent structures to add eccentric touch during designer’s 2019 spring/summer show beside art deco Palais de Tokyo in the French capital
“Confusion” and age-old drama reigned in the styles of Rick Owens’ spring/summer ode to the Tower of Babel.
Set outside against the art deco columns of Paris’ Palais de Tokyo, American designer’s collection show at Paris Men’s Fashion Week featured machines spitting mood-setting smoke out across the constructed geometric stage.
The accomplished designs themselves followed this architectural theme.
Criss-cross patterns – as seen in a torn vest silhouette or in a graphic print – were ubiquitous on looks that often capped gargantuan, 1990s-era black trousers.
Much like the Biblical tower that Owens used as a touchstone for the 40 looks, the weight of the silhouette seemed visually to carry down from the torso to solid legs.
The trousers, which were sometimes adorned with studs or imagined in geometric panels, were highly artistic in their play on proportion.