(Men's Style)

"I try to make clothes the way Lou Reed does music: minimal chord changes, and direct. It is sweet but kind of creepy. It's about giving everything I make a worn, softened feeling. It's about an elegance being tinged with a bit of the barbaric, the sloppiness of something dragging and the luxury of not caring. At Revillon, I felt it isn't about displaying one's junk, but rather giving the woman a selfish pleasure. It is about using sable as the lining under a very humble jacket, the luxury is all hers." 

-Rick Owens

Owens' design aesthetic of "barbaric elegance" is also apparent in the furniture he creates, now on display at London's Sebastian + Barquet's Gallery. The show, "Evolution", features chairs, sofas, tables, and lamps created from plywood, antlers, black-and-white, marble, shearling, fisher fur, and his famed washed black leather. These materials provide juxtaposition between the sharp and the sumptuous, the  strange and the beautiful. As Owens' put it, "Everybody loves glamour, when there is a little disaster involved."

(WWD)

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