Temple of Love: Rick Owens

"Published to coincide with the 2025 exhibition at Palais Galliera in Paris, this retrospective catalog of fashion provocateur Rick Owens is a meditation on identity, body, transformation and desire. For three decades Rick Owens and muse Michéle Lamy have been ringleaders of a fashion freak show that vividly illustrates how design — clothing, materiality, presentation — becomes a means of self-definition, of conceptual provocation. Flowing, diaphanous fabrics sit alongside structured, sharp silhouettes. There is an obsession with form, movement, texture and the unexpected. This is fashion as contemporary art, design as an existential argument, a bold and beautiful statement of living life adventurously. —————————————-"