Rick Owens Spring 2012

label Rick Owens
season Spring 2012

Every Rick Owens collection is such a religious experience. Watching his videos are like a service and each season I just want to come and lay prostrate before the altar so I can rise and he can clothe me in the folds of one of his monocromatic dresses for men.

To call them dresses though is to misspeak. Surely the word dress with it's connotations of feminine, flimsy, and sometimes even frilly at times, can not describe the piece that Owens presents each season. With their shapeless silhouettes anchored with heavy boots and all done in blacks, grays, and whites with the occasional beige thrown in, it is neither a LaRoque frock or Carolina Herrera gown that comes to mind but instead it's something that is thoroughly and utterly masculine.

The pieces are certainly not for everyone. I find the ones with high backs a little too... adventerous for my tastes but the white numbers that seem evocative of robes are certainly my speed. Even the blazers, which by the way assist in composing the Rick Owens 4 Piece Suit, resonate with me.