User:Allysonsu/Rick Owens

Early Inspiration
-Grace Jone's "Corporate Cannibal" video

-Tine Turner singing ”Acid Queen” in the movie ”Tommy”

-Architecture of Claude Parent

-Artist Andrei Molodkin

-Larry Legaspi

Michèle Lamy (Muse, Wife, Inspiration)
Owens credits his wife, Michèle Lamy, as the creative force behind his shows. They met in Los Angeles during the 1990s when Lamy owned Café des Artistes. She supported Owens’s work from early on and they lived together from a bohemian, Baudelaire inspired place to a place marked with their own Rick Owens label. Eventually, Owens and his wife moved to Paris in the early 2000s, after acquiring his title at Révillon.

Since 2007, the couple has worked together through the design process for their furniture line. Owens comes up with the drawings in which Lamy then creates the preliminary models for. Before his wife hires artisans to create the final pieces made from marble, alabaster, bronze, leather, and plywood, the two carve, re-proportion, and make any adjustments beforehand.