Rick Owens
Paco Rabanne
April 25, 2020Saint Laurent
April 25, 2020
Richard “Rick” Owens was born in California in 1961, the only child to working-class parents. He moved to Los Angeles to study fashion design and pattern cutting, working as a pattern cutter in LA before launching his own fashion line in 1994.
His brand slowly rose to prominence with the help of Anna Wintour and stylist Panos Yiapanis, and in 2002, Owens was appointed artistic director at Revillon, the French fur company that was founded in 1723. He moved his namesake studio to Paris at the same time.
Always a fashion outsider, this “Prince of Darkness” has amassed a devoted following over the years with his glamour meets grunge style of post-apocalyptic, avant-garde collections, expanding into several product lines including furniture, and building a €100m-a-year brand.
