Fashion’s enfant terrible joins forces with the most grunge brand of recent decades, and gives birth to a collab with an anti-conformist and subversive aesthetic, available in two iconic boot models, revisited in Owens fashion .
Black sheep of fashion, the American designer who initially intended to paint, met with international success in 2001, thanks to his collaboration with the Italian distributor EBA. Since becoming a master of a transgressive fashion, both dark and grunge, Rick Owens continues to surprise with minimalist creations, glaringly free and original, playing with materials and incorporating sometimes draped fabrics, sometimes transparency. . If the Owens label is recognizable among a thousand and shakes up the dusty classics of current fashion, its DNA is now part of an explosive new collection that revisits two of the very famous Dr. Martens boots, the 1460 and the 18-hole 1918 .
Oversized tongues, imposing side zippers and enveloping laces, these two models completely reinvent the look of the classic Dr. Martens and imbue themselves with an extravagant and imposing attitude, which one wears as if to assert one’s non-conformist spirit and libertarian.
If the iconic 1460 is dressed here in enveloping laces and extra-large eyelets with silver finishes, the 1918 is made of Hair-On leather which gives it a wild and atypical look, arranged in a white color with XXL tongue and laces.
Exaggerated and surprising, this collaboration is a real ode to difference, which blows an icy wind on the world of fashion. And who better to present this new collection than artist Ron Athey? Chosen by Rick Owens to be the emblematic face of this collaboration which sounds obvious, the American perfomer, famous for his performances and extreme physical demonstrations, put on his shoes for this volcanic campaign of these two new models, dressed only in underwear and a large black cape, a nod to the ever more casual and creative attitude of Rick Owens.
On the left, the 1918 in Hair-On leather, on the right, the 1460
Ron Athey wears the 1918 pair
Johanna Arnoult