RICK OWENS FW24 WOMENS PORTERVILLE (LIVE STREAM)

FW24 PORTERVILLE WOMEN’S THURSDAY 29 FEBRUARY 2024 OWENSCORP, 7 BIS PLACE DU PALAIS BOURBON, 75007 PARIS FOLLOWING OUR MEN’S SHOW, WE ARE ONCE AGAIN SHOWING IN MY HOME AND WORKING COMPOUND WHERE WE BEGAN SELLING OUR COLLECTIONS 25 YEARS AGO – AN INTIMATE MOVE IN OBSERVANCE OF THE BARBARIC TIMES THROUGH IN WHICH WE ARE LIVING. THE SHOW IS CALLED ‘PORTERVILLE’ RECALLING MY EXPERIENCE GROWING UP IN A JUDGEMENTAL ENVIRONMENT HOSTILE TO AN OVERLY SENSITIVE YOUNG SISSY. THIS KIND OF BANAL HOSTILITY AND INTOLERANCE IS A FACT OF LIFE THAT WE ARE WITNESSING AT ITS MOST HORRIFICALLY MAGNIFIED INTENSITY RIGHT NOW. IN PAST INTERVIEWS I HAVE MENTIONED MY STERN FATHER NOT ALLOWING A TV IN THE HOUSE BUT I UNDERPLAYED THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT HE REPLACED IT WITH – OPERA. STORIES OF ACHING, LONGING, AND DISAPPOINTMENT, SET TO RAPTUROUS MUSIC REACHING FOR TRANSCENDENCE BY PUCCINI, WAGNER, PURCELL, STRAUSS... AND EVERY EVENING HE WOULD SOFTLY READ EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS PAPERBACKS TO ME, STORIES SET IN SPACE WITH NAMES LIKE THUVIA, MAID OF MARS AND LLANA OF GATHOL AND A PRINCESS OF MARS, FILLED WITH BEINGS THAT WERE WEIRD BUT NOBLE, AND HE WOULD ALTER HIS VOICE FOR EACH CHARACTER. ON EACH BOOK COVER WOULD BE A FRANK FRAZETTA ILLUSTRATION OF MUSCULAR HEROES AND HEROINES IN THE BRIEFEST OF VAGUELY JUGENDSTIL-ESQUE SPACE GEAR SURMOUNTING JEWELRY ADORNED MONSTERS. THIS WAS THE WORLD I LONGED TO LEAVE PORTERVILLE FOR. WEIRD BUT NOBLE SPACESUITS ARE KNIT IN RECYCLED CASHMERE OR FELTED ALPACA AND SWADD