Distinctly Rick

2013

For his spring collection, he casts step dancers to model the clothes and perform at his show, literally shaking the industry.

2015

Owens sends women down the Paris runway in the spring carrying fellow models like surreal cargo: a comment on the support and strength of community.

2017

The influence of glam pioneer Larry LeGaspi hovers over Owens’s work. Owens wrote a book about LeGaspi and his designs (like this one, on Anna Cleveland) this year.

2018

In September, Owens puts on a show with fearsome models bearing torches. He references the Tower of Babel, and Vogue calls it fashion’s “first knock-down, drag-out Me Too collection.”