/fa/ - Fashion

>>8720223
>, Owens's clothes typically tend to be black (via the occasional aside into grey or other sludgily neutral tones) and fall unconventionally from the wearer.
really hope the article writer gets shot.

>>8720223
Man this made me annoyed when I read this in the paper yesterday. I felt like it was written by someone who not only doesn't give a shit about clothes but also wants to diminish the people that do.

>>8720281
He's on point about rick diehards being up their own worthless faggot asses. Even their lord and savior himself says "chill out you autistic irredeemable human garbage it's just clothes" (paraphrasing)

>>8720232
How is that wrong? Especially in a short profile for a daily newspaper, especially one with the Telegraph's audience?

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG11056267/Rick-Owens-Most-people-take-my-clothes-more-seriously-than-I-do.html

I'm a writer and I thought the piece was very well executed.

>>8720301
those 2 brown jackets are fucking cool

>>8720301
because rick has used plenty of color. Anyone who thinks rick is just black and greys doesnt keep track of rick collections.

>>8720294
Well, he's not exactly talking about Rick diehards. He's talking about the crowd at his shows. Fashion shows/weeks are notoriously status driven environments.

The Rick diehards (I'm close but not quite) I've met have been quite the opposite of snobs. Monastically other, ceremonially unconventional, absolutely - but also very radically into the man's vision of tolerance. Woundedly compassionate is another thing I'd say. People who have been through enough pain to be get its game. Like Rick.

I posted this in the thread about this article on here last night, but I'll do it at every opportunity because it's everything:

>>8720352
Really because all the rick fans on here are pretentious aspie garbage that pull the "dont like it? sorry ur poor ayy" nonsense, when chances are, the person they're attacking is of far higher status where the attacker got their rick 2nd-5th hand on grailed for 20% the original price

>>8720352
He's talking about his fanbase type close to many SZ users, they reject anyone they believe dosen't properly fit in with the style. They also go on a witch hunt for brands similar to the gothic artisnal style.

>>8720343
But... but there's three brown jackets...

>I RECENTLY SAW A MOVIE FROM THE '80S THAT I’D BEEN IN AS AN EXTRA IN A GOTH NIGHTCLUB SCENE. I HAD JUST MOVED TO L.A. FROM A SMALL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TOWN AND WAS STARTING TO BLOSSOM INTO THE EARLY STAGES OF GOTHDOM. I WINCED AT MY NAIVE AND VULNERABLE FACE TRYING TO LOOK HARD AND WORLD-WEARY.

>GOTH WAS GONNA BE MY ANSWER. IT WAS GOING TO CONFRONT EVERYONE AND DECLARE ME. I WAS GOING TO DIVE INTO A WORLD OF SIN AND EXOTICISM THAT I’D READ ABOUT IN HUYSMANS “AU REBOURS” AND “LA BAS” IN MY PARENTS' LIBRARY AT HOME. I WOULD LAY A BLACK GLITTERING TURD ON THE WHITE LANDSCAPE OF CONFORMITY.

>I DROVE A BLACK T-TOP CAMARO. THE STEREO BLASTED SISTERS OF MERCY, MARLENE DIETRICH AND WAGNER. I WORE MY GLOVES AND JEWELRY TO BED IN FULL MAKEUP. I LIVED ON BLACK BEAUTIES AND CIGARETTES. I LIVED IN A FRIEND'S STUDIO BY THE RAILROAD TRACKS THAT WAS ACCESSED BY A FIRE ESCAPE TO THE ROOF. PERFECT FOR CAPES.

>AS THE YEARS WENT BY, THE INSECURITY AND ANGST STARTED GIVING WAY TO SOMETHING MORE DIONYSIAN AND SELF-DESTRUCTIVE UNTIL FINALLY, AFTER ALL THE DARKNESS, I REACHED A CLEAR-EYED GYM-QUEEN CALM.

>LATER, THE MAIN REASON I TOOK A JOB AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR WITH THE REVILLON FUR MAISON IN PARIS WAS ITS DIRECT LINEAGE TO GLAMOROUS, DECADENT, FIN-DE-SIECLE PARIS, MY NE PLUS ULTRA OF HIGH ARTIFICE. IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1763. SARAH BERNHARDT PROBABLY WORE A REVILLON FUR WITH THE TAXIDERMIED BAT SHE WORE IN HER HAIR.

>I WAS STILL ATTRACTED TO THE SAME AESTHETIC, BUT IT NOW HAD A LAYER OF AFFECTION. ALL THOSE YEARS OF DOOMED IDEALISM SEEN IN THE DAYLIGHT OF ADULTHOOD SEEMED RATHER SWEET. AND POIGNANT. EVERYTHING BLACK I EVER WORE AGAIN OR PUT ON A RUNWAY WOULD BE WITH A LOVING WINK.

>AND I FINALLY SEE THE LINES OF DISSAPATION IN MY FACE THAT I SO DESPERATELY WANTED IN MY YOUTH.

>>8720367
most rick fans here only own a drkshdw unstable cotton tee and act as if that gives them the clout to aggressively demean everyone else, which is a very un-rick thing to do. they definitely dont represent the rick fanbase, and especially dont represent the rick diehards

>>8720380
The autism. Its so bright.

>>8720380
Source, read the whole thing when you have time, it's so worth it.

http://www.rickowens.eu/en/interviews/whitewall-magazine-fall-2010

>>8720345
>or other sludgily neutral tones

Writer covered you, man, mostly.

It's a one clause generalization in a short profile for the Telegraph. The reader for a piece like that not only doesn't need an intricate understanding of Rick's use of color, they wouldn't know what to do with it unless the writer turned the profile into a textbook.

"Sludgily" isn't the word I would've used myself, but it's close enough.

>>8720367
>>8720368

I think Internet forum assholes are probably a different strain of asshole than PFW going assholes, but yeah, there's definitely nastiness.

I believe him about Rick show attendees being douchebags; I guess I'm just sticking up for Rick fans, like, "hey hey some of them get it!"

SZ is largely malignant dreck in my limited experience with it.

>>8720405
RFW

>>8720424
>It's a one clause generalization in a short profile for the Telegraph. The reader for a piece like that not only doesn't need an intricate understanding of Rick's use of color, they wouldn't know what to do with it unless the writer turned the profile into a textbook.

Or, to put it another way - this piece was written for an audience that would ask "why is there a giant shirtless man statue shooting fire outside Selfridge's?"

>>8720380
It's either Robocop or Terminator he's an extra in