Rick Owens at Fashion Week
The party line in the fashion world is this: the skinnier the models, the better the clothes look. Designer Rick Owens said a big F that and enlisted some normal-sized college students to aggro step dance in his fall fashion week show. That Rick Owens is a man who steps to his own beat. I know this because I was once shopping at a leather supply store, and he came in smoking a cigar. No one cared but me.
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Is it weird that this thing gives me this chills? I just love seeing normal girls on the runway. And I read the anger as fuck what’s come before us, check out some real people.
I know, the whole thing is hideous. But that’s kinda why I like it. I read an article by an angry stepping fan who said it’s usually at least partly about looking cute. Clearly he wasn’t going for cute. She seemed to think it was reinforcing some racially stereotyped anger problems. I think any fashion project that uses non-models is worth noting, even if it just serves to remind everyone of why fashion designers always use models.
This is the most boring version of sorority girls stepping I’ve ever seen and with the worst music too. Ps the clothes are terrible too!
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