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Rick Owens pushed the envelope with a truly frightening and mesmerising show at Paris Fashion Week.
His fall/winter 2019/20 ready-to-wear collection on Thursday featured alien styles inspired by the American rock group Kiss.
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The lauded American designer again drew inspiration from Larry LeGaspi, the late US designer whose silver and black space-age looks worn by Kiss – formed in 1973, and known for its member’s painted faces – and other rock bands.
It was the same starting point as Owens’ provocative men’s show last month: a sort of a reverential homage to LeGaspi’s bombastic styles.

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This runway collection, though, was very different from the men’s fare in more ways than one.
It was genuinely frightening.
Models in monster-like face make-up – horns, alien-like nose cartilage, billowing wigs, and giant black pupils – strode out inside the Palais de Tokyo venue.


It had some guests gasping – and others reaching for their cameras.
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Though the first styles focused on long, beautifully tailored coats – this classicism didn’t last long.


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Platform boots, which elongated the body in a nod to 1970s glam rock, soon led to exaggerated silhouettes with big curved shoulders.
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Then, Owens’ signature envelope-pushing began: in the form of giant, sheeny space-age sleeves that might well have been a Martian’s answer to a leg-of-mutton design.
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A model with grotesque, alien-style nose cartilage, horns and make-up and a billowing yellow wig, catches the eye on the catwalk while presenting creations from Rick Owens’ fall/winter 2019/20 collection show at Paris Fashion Week on Thursday. Photo: AFP

A model presents a creation by Rick Owens during the Fall-Winter 2019/2020 Ready-to-Wear collection fashion show in Paris, on February 28, 2019. (Photo by FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP)

US fashion designer Rick Owens acknowledges the audience at the end of the Rick Owens Fall-Winter 2019/2020 Ready-to-Wear collection fashion show in Paris, on February 28, 2019. (Photo by FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP)

Models present creations by Rick Owens during the Fall-Winter 2019/2020 Ready-to-Wear collection fashion show in Paris, on February 28, 2019. (Photo by FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP)

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The American designer’s fall/winter ready-to-wear line was inspired by space-age outfits of US glam rock group Kiss – it had the audience gasping and reaching for their cameras


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