Continuing his now-signature seasonal template, Rick Owens presented this season’s collection as the sister show to his men’s outing in June. Titled Temple, both collections coincided with the opening of Rick’s retrospective at the Musée Palais Galliera right by his usual outdoor show space at the Palais de Tokyo. 

With Jefferson Airplane playing over the speakers, Rick went pretty slick with this collection. Silhouettes were often form-fitting and sheer, while even his trademark bumper-like shoulders appeared more refined, serving as frameworks for billowing fabrics. Leather fringes, suspended from mesh like the trailing branches of a weeping willow, adorned several looks. Elsewhere, sequinned textiles were sculpturally draped and wrapped around the body.

High collars appeared throughout, christened “dracu-collars” in the show notes. The finale looks featured hand-drawn motifs bearing Rick’s full birth name, Richard S. Owens, alongside the time and place of his birth. As Rick summed it up in the show notes, these were “tough clothes for tough times”.