Table Of Content
- Meet The Editor: Chioma Nnadi, Head of Editorial Content at British Vogue!
- Rick Owens Opens the Doors to His Minimalist Venice Home
- BOOK CLUB: In Search Of African American Space
- TOILET ARCHITECTURE: AN ESSAY ABOUT THE MOST PSYCHOSEXUALLY CHARGED ROOM IN A BUILDING
- Rick Owens opened up his Paris home to host his latest menswear show
- An aesthetic of extravagance and drama
I mean, nothing's authentic anymore, so to be able to provide that, that's a special thing. In 2014, Owens bought a condominium apartment on the top floor of a building just a few blocks from the Excelsior and proceeded to renovate it into a beach house version of Superman’s fortress of solitude. Basically, all that remains of the old apartment is the view—360 degrees of the sea and the lagoon and Venice itself—from the wide, wraparound marble terrace.
Meet The Editor: Chioma Nnadi, Head of Editorial Content at British Vogue!
In Owens’s office, a cardboard and gaffer-tape wall sculpture, created by in-house furniture maker Jacek Nowak, enhances the do-it-yourself-or-don’t-aesthetic. The top-floor entertaining area of Rick Owens’s Paris townhouse is a haven in cashmere and felt. The low-line, furniture is reminiscent of L.A.’s skate parks. According to Owens, every element of the Venice home has been designed with intention—including, yes, the shower. People that I respect who live their aesthetics completely and fully every day, not just for dress-up.
Rick Owens Opens the Doors to His Minimalist Venice Home
Rick Owens Held a Fashion Show In His Own House - GQ
Rick Owens Held a Fashion Show In His Own House.
Posted: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]
Owens uses a variety of materials in his home to create a unique atmosphere. One of the most notable choices is its use of army blankets, inspired by Joseph Beuys. "I always insulated my rooms with vintage army blankets," he says. "As a symbol of protection, insulation and isolation." He also uses a lot of travertine, a material he describes as "classic tone".
BOOK CLUB: In Search Of African American Space
We took her to be cremated on Isola San Michele, where Stravinsky's buried. I don't really talk about it that much, but it's a sensitive time in the world where intimacy is kind of a good idea, intimacy and honesty and warmth. And that's the whole purpose about bringing people to the house. It was the most intimate, warm thing that I could do. Like I said, a festival atmosphere just did not seem appropriate now. Also, this is authentically part of the aesthetic world that I'm making stuff from.
Known for his minimalist style, fashion designer Rick Owens is also known for his one-of-a-kind home in Concordia, Italy . In a video for Vogue, he gives a glimpse into his apartment and shows how he lives in this space. It is covered in Swiss army blankets, stapled onto the plywood support.
Philippe, Owens’s pattern maker maestro, is hard at work on a multi-paneled prototype of a skinny fur jacket. The room is literally piled high with a jumble of pelts and patterns. It’s just as soft as smooth cashmere, but this way it reminds you of the life that has passed over it. It’s not just a dead object, but a living artifact. Well, there are some chairs made from matte black-varnished plywood. They look temporary, jerry-built, but in fact they’re massive.
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These collections often share the same title and theme. The designer still wants to ‘corrupt the world,’ even as he’s embraced by the mainstream. With my furniture collection, to a certain extent. In this space, I don't like living with a lot of things.
Indeed, the collection itself had a feeling of intimacy. Vast, shaggy forms wrapped around the body – a warped vision of comfort – while Owens’ architectural puffer jackets were raised high on the neckline as if to suggest protection. Elsewhere, a feeling of softness was echoed in all-in-one ‘space suits’ knitted from soft recycled cashmere, alpaca and merino.
And it's narrow, and it can be a little bit cruel. I don't mean to eliminate it because it's beautiful. I'm just saying I want to offer a little bit of flexibility. I want to offer something that is not exactly that. Then, other people may see themselves with that. The designer was in a moment of personal reflection.
So it was a very weird experience for this part of town. Then gradually, it became our offices, and I never used these rooms myself. These were always our showroom because I didn't like facing the square. Intolerance is something that we've all experienced. My personal effort has been to oppose intolerance in any way that I can by proposing aesthetics that are not the accepted standards or not the enforced standards. We're forced to march through this gauntlet of beauty—the beauty ads, the beauty goods, perfume things—that is exactly the same globally, and this has become our accepted standards of beauty.
For my first Paris showroom I needed benches, and a friend said, “I have a friend working with Gaetano Pesce. He can make you 50 benches in two days.” And that guy — Jacek Nowak — is still here, working away upstairs in what would have been the ideal guest room, but he insisted he couldn’t work in any other space. From producing quite utilitarian pieces for the showroom, we just naturally moved into making more statement pieces. Then when we were doing the men’s collection showroom we thought, “Hey, let’s show the furniture too.” It was like putting a show on in the backyard. But it was meant to be a one-shot thing, then it got bigger and I wanted to keep Jacek so I thought we should get serious.
Rick Owens opened up his Paris home to host his latest menswear show - Wallpaper*
Rick Owens opened up his Paris home to host his latest menswear show.
Posted: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]
"I think that creates a retro-futuristic aesthetic that I've developed over the years." But when you’re not covering everything in cashmere or mink, you resort to utilitarian army blankets.I’ve always been obsessed with Swiss army blankets. There’s something about their inbuilt sense of history I find fascinating. French blankets are grey, which is less interesting.
But inside Rick’s place, you could have been anywhere. Cocoon-like, womb-like, dark — it was the kind of space any self-respecting goth-skater would be happy to call home. If it seemed at the time a million light years away from the glitz of Hollywood, it was completely unreachable from Paris. What’s surprising is how effortlessly Mister Owens seems to have transported his moody, broody aesthetic to the City of Light. Five years ago, I went back to Porterville for the first time in 27 years because my mom was starting chemotherapy. Then, I brought her to Europe, and I took her to Venice where I was living last summer, and she died in Venice.
He has credited its vast landscapes for his love of the monumental – as well as being a site of teenage angst and yearning – all elements that continue to pulsate through the designer’s work. ‘I remember the small brutalities of a sensitive childhood in a judgemental country,’ he wrote in a letter released just before the show’s start. We are a Germany-based global online platform for design enthusiasts. We represent the connection between design lovers and exclusive designers as well as brands. As an established, exclusive hub for outstanding design, our concept store provides access to a carefully curated selection of design products.
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