Rick Owens Spring 2010

This image struck a cord — the aus­tere black top, a slash of pale skin, white shorts (are those shorts?), and of course the ban­gle bracelets that look as though some­one had wrested the spikes off a Stegosaurus. Clearly, Owens woman is not to be messed with — lean the clothes may be, and in many moments poet­i­cally beau­ti­ful in their draped details — but woe to the man who tries to tame this crea­ture in con­ven­tional chains.