.RickOwensOnline's spring collection felt like a defiant fashion act, deflecting doom with major shoulders, thigh-high boots and 'lurid' colors.
Rick Owens spends his summers on Venice’s Lido, the narrow strip of beach where Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice” is set, and in his press notes, the designer describes the novella’s main character as someone “ascetically devoted to his craft” and who sports “desperately age-defying hair dye.”
That Owens showed in front of the Lido Casino — with no audience and not in Paris — was a function of the coronavirus pandemic, not the cholera that did in Mann’s poor protagonist. Venice is two hours away from Owens’ Italian factory, where he’s been holed up. And incidentally, the word quarantine originates from the Venetian language and the region’s response to the bubonic plague in medieval times, the designer noted.
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