Rick Owens

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One of the most subversive forces in the fashion vanguard, as a designer Rick Owens can only be categorized as truly "other." Juxtaposing stranglingly tight tops with slouchy loose fitting bottoms his collections take antinomic elements and place them in a context in which they are dialectically reconciled. All of his pieces are made of the finest and rarest fabrics to be found. By using such sociohistorically laden luxury materials in an iconoclastic manner Mr Owens has helped to incite an upheaval of conventional sartorial mores. Though his aesthetic has inevitable seeped into popular consciousness thanks to advocates in the celebrity circuit, Owens remains outside his cult of worshipers and continues to unfold his collection in innovative directions each season.