Rick Owens Performa Fall/Winter 2020

The ability to link reminiscences of art and the vision of the future is typical of Rick Owens who manages to design a collection for the Fall / Winter 2020-21 Woman referring to Performa, the art biennial founded by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004 and dedicated to the exploration and critical role of live performance with artists such as Marina Abramovic, Mike Kelley, Rashid Jonson. To this, he combines the linear graphics of Kansai Yamamoto's fashion in the years he was dedicated to building looks for David Bowie. A truly exciting example of creative mastery that leads Owens to preserve both its originality and to make a very modern tale of fashion that comes from his ideas. Owens' fashion often refers to that free imagination that was born in the seventies and in this F / W 2020-21 Women's collection the designer tells a precise narration of a world that flowed parallel to the one created starting in 1973 by Larry LeGaspi, a reference by Owens who seems almost taken by the desire to revive those years because, having, at the time, anticipated a future in the past, today they find themselves in the position of compatibility with the future as can be seen from the observation point of 2020. After all, since 1973, when LeGaspi sewed her first dress, only 47 years have passed to date, some fewer than since 1971, when Kansai Yamamoto started showing in London. An era that today Owens brings back to the contemporary by designing sweaters with linear graphics worn with vinyl coats, with high-shoulder shaved felt jackets, leather bikers and coats cut according to the shape dear to LeCorbusier, knitted suits with a sleeve and a leg that, also designed by Kansai Yamamoto, David Bowie wore in his performances. A new inspiration that, exploring years of absolute creativity, remains parallel to that of the seasons in which Owens recounted those years through the reinterpretation of LeGaspi.