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My favorite look for the first ‘24 collection from Rick Owens. Owens has always been known for his t-shirts. So many styles have his fingerprints on them in terms of our modern vernacular for his vision of a uniquely ‘glamorized’ goth/punk/grunge aesthetic. i know it’s annoying to put those three together, but i think what saves the comparison is how Owens draws the correlative symbologies and silhouettes from each separately, and then reassembles the smithereens into a conglomerate that supersedes its summation of simple caricatures or tropes. This season in particular saw a somewhat encouraged androgyny. ultimately look 5, (3rd down on the left), draws together a nicely balanced fluidity without becoming trite. What i mean is that often garments that focus on losing their conceivability as a quote ‘normal’ or ‘everydaywear’ unquote piece, tend to err too far to the alternate, making them cartoonish and faultily proportioned.

Directly to the right, we have Balenciaga, and again next row down on the left is Balenci as well. I’ve got to say, the label has difinitively grown on me. The experimentation can sometimes lean too on the nose, though in the past I was less of a stylist and more of a dilettante in fashion design. My approach to this world was to buy into what I liked, that way even if I ever did get “burned”, i would still most likely end up with something i would love to wear. Balenciaga just never honestly seemed all that wearable. seriously outside of their logo wares, they have truly bizarre aesthetic rules. It’s only now, as I sit on a large collection of many many pieces, that I have witnessed the true power of styling a garment in a unique way.

I want to leave you with a dress from the women’s collection that showcases this season’s ghostly and gaunt demeanor. I particularly like how this specific look invokes a deep sense of imminent danger and ferocity. Models were asked to wear dark contact lenses that obscure the whites of their eyes, adding to the de-humanizing affect.

all in all, a brilliant benchmark in the canon.

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really liking this neckline...

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left to right, top down are my favorite rick owens looks in ascending order. the subtlety of adding billowing fabric that is obviously going to be constantly swept up by the air because of its design quality, the first two looks are from Babel: SS19; a season that also saw him debut certain exotic materials for the first time: most notably ‘apparition leather’ a leather that is actually affected by pressure changes due to natural temperature fluctuation, meaning that in colder climates they actually contract, and in the heat they expand; they breathe, literally. the following looks are indicative to me of what the universe of rick owens is about. the look on the left is relatively unassuming. But it represents a silhouette that is nigh unshakable for someone like me in his clothes, because i’m slender and skinny and the majority of my daily shots are some instance of layering. the look from the right is an all white ensemble, and quite possibly my favorite look in his entire catalog in terms of what i would call ‘wearability’.

the final look is a testament to what brings people into the darkness in the first place, the very striking usage of an exotic leather with-fur in such a way as to be adding to the beauty, rather than merely adding to the price tag or as a gaudy afterthought. the very concept of such a look is the genius manifold that is rick owens’ catalog, because quite possibly one could find an interpretation of almost any silhouette or design-reference-point conceivable. one feels completely free to both be a part of and also remake the idea every time you put on your clothes.

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doc marten’s tobias creepers that i customized with silver leaf.

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it’s like heroin chic done by the elves from middle earth

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for national pet day, i mourn the loss of my dog a gurl yellow lab named budda (like butter pronounced wrong not buddha) and my cat felix aka. caissa,

today my only pet is my fashionable and scaly sidekick Ophelia. a hunrod one-eyed bunny bag done in white snake leather.

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this is how i would design all interiors in my empire. except exclusively pink silk fabric with silver reflective baroque embellishments.

100 Designers’ Favorite Rooms, 1994

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𝔱𝔬 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔬 𝔠𝔲𝔱 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔢𝔵𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢, 𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔳𝔢𝔡 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡, 𝔱𝔥𝔲𝔰 𝔞 𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔩 𝔞𝔠𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔰𝔲𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔡𝔢.

𝔱𝔬𝔲𝔠𝔥 𝔭𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔬 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔢𝔫𝔱.

𝔫𝔬 𝔰𝔲𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔡𝔢 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔡 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔞𝔫 𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔰.

𝔟𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔧𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰, 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔰𝔱 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔧𝔰. 𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔰𝔢𝔵. 𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔡𝔯𝔲𝔤𝔰. 𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔠 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔴𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔴𝔡𝔰. 𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔧𝔫𝔤 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔣 𝔦𝔫 𝔞 𝔥𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔫 𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔭𝔢𝔱 𝔞𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔢𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔬𝔨𝔶𝔬. 𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔫 𝔬𝔩𝔡 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔡 𝔞𝔤𝔞𝔦𝔫, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢’𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢.

𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔦𝔰 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 𝔴𝔢 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔞𝔠𝔠𝔢𝔭𝔱, 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔡𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔣 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔯 𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔞 𝔟𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔢.

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please don’t hold me responsible for my actions i’m a brunette

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This documents the final concept sketches for the cartoon tennis sneakers for calvin and hobbes f/w ‘23. now all that is to be done is make them!

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1st design concept was to customize something already in existence. this is my interpolation of the rick owens mainline high-top toe-cap “ramone” sneaker. finished with ultra-black paint and silver leaf.