Rick Owens Opens the Doors to His Minimalist Venice Home

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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.

Rick Owens, Fashion’s Patriarch of Freaks

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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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".