With every season, Rick Owens is reaching new levels of supreme, untamed and convention-breaking beauty. The gothy elegance and high camp of his sensationally blooming aesthetic was built on his fascination with Old Hollywood. Think long narrow skirts with fishtail hems – silhouettes lifted from movies of the 30s – and dramatic volumes. The grandeur of the Palais De Tokyo setting, the evocative hair and makeup, the otherworldliness of his models (the most inclusive casting of the entire season, featuring women of very different body sizes and shapes), the extremity of his elongated, extraterrestrial clothes… just incredible. “I’ve always thought of my life’s mission as kind of balancing out oppressive discrimination and intolerance in the world by proposing a very cheerful perversity – that’s always been my thing,” Owens summed up. We are so lucky to have him.

Speaking of Rick, I met his wife Michele Lamy in Paris. What a woman! What an aura! Beyond. Here she posed for me:

Collage by Edward Kanarecki.
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