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Rick Owens and Birkenstock debut second collaboration range

Rick Owens and Birkenstock have done it again. After the luxury designer and the German comfort footwear brand debuted their first collaborative collection for Spring/Summer 2018, the two parties teamed up once again, this time for Spring/Summer 2019. The footwear range was unveiled a few days ago during Paris Fashion Week, just hours after Rick...

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Dowdy no more: Men in suits storm back into style

Many had thought it as good as dead, destined for a place in fashion oblivion next to plus fours. But this week a most unexpected thing has been happening on Paris men's catwalks -- the stuffy old suit has come back. In show after show suits and tailored jackets have shaken off the toxic baggage of corporate uniformity. It wasn't supposed be...

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Birkenstock CEO turns down collaboration with Supreme, compares it to prostitution

Hypebeasts pay thousands of dollars for Supreme and Vetements items, but Birkenstock’s CEO Oliver Reicher is not fussed. In an interview with New York Magazine’s supplement The Cut, he revealed Birkenstock has been approached by streetwear brands Supreme and Vetements, but turned down both collaborations. “There’s no benefit for us except...

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Video: Rick Owens SS19 Menswear collection

Rick Owens Spring Summer 2019 collection by Rick Owens, PFW/Paris Fashion Week. Source: FF Channel, YouTube.

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Rapper Tommy Cash swaps the stage for Paris catwalk

The outrageous post-Soviet rapper and conceptual artist Tommy Cash -- best known for his wacky hits "Leave Me Alone" and "Winaloto" -- made his catwalk debut Thursday as a model in Rick Owens' dramatically apocalyptic outdoor Paris show. The Estonian, who has built up a huge following thanks to his videos which are often dubbed "the craziest on...

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In Pictures: Birkenstock Box x Rick Owens debuts in Los Angeles

Los Angeles - German footwear brand Birkenstock recently announced a capsule collection with Parisian brand Rick Owens. The two decided to debut a box that has officially opened in Los Angeles this week as a fresh concept space. A post shared by Birkenstock (@birkenstock) on Apr 20, 2018 at 4:28am PDT The collaborative news was reported by...

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Birkenstock x Rick Owens

German footwear brand Birkenstock has partnered with Paris-based designer Rick Owens on a capsule collection of its ubiquitous functional sandal. Owens has waived his gothic wand over the shoe that was once considered an orthopedic comfort clog the polar opposite of anything chic. Now designer versions, like Phoebe Philo's Céline's furry...

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Video: Rick Owens SS18 Dirt Mens backstage

Rick Owens´s Spring Summer Men´s collection is called ´Dirt´ as a counterpoint to last season´s glitter and to evoke a reductive, eternal and blunt answer to out temporary chaotic human condition. Source: Rick Owens, YouTube.

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Video: Rick Owens FW18 PFW

Rick Owens collection Fall / Winter 2018/2019, March 2018, Paris Fashion Week. Source: Rick Owens, YouTube

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Video: Rick Owens FW18 Men's PFW

Rick Owens Fall Winter 2018/19 Men's collection, January 2018, Paris Fashion Week. Source: Rick Owens, YouTube

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Rick Owens debuts retrospective in Milan

Twenty years of blood, sweat, tears and unorthodoxy are on display at the Rick Owens retrospective exhibition at the Triennale in Milan. “The clothes I make are my autobiography. They are the calm elegance I want to get to and the damage I’ve done on the way. They are an expression of tenderness and raging ego. They are an adolescent...

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Video: Rick Owens SS18 collection PFW

"&amp;amp;amp;gt; Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2018 collection, Paris Fashion Week, 28 September 2017. Video: FF Channel, YouTube