Rick Owens Biography
Rick Owens is a California-based American fashion designer with an Italian background. Owens also has a furniture line and a number of diffusion lines in addition to his main line.
How old is Rick Owens? – Age
He is 59 years old as of 18 November 2021. He was born in 1962 in Porterville, California, United States. His real name is Richard Saturnino Owens.
Rick Owens Family – Education
His parents are Concepción “Connie” Owens and the late John Owens. Connie is of Mexican origin. Owens grew up in a conservative, Catholic family. He moved to Los Angeles after high school to study art at Otis College of Art and Design for two years before taking pattern-making and draping classes at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College.
Rick Owens Partner
He is bisexual. He is married to Michèle Lamy, French culture and fashion figure. The couple married in 2006.
Rick Owens Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet and 8 inches.
Rick Owens Books
Owens has written three books: L’ai-je bien descendu?, published in 2007, Rick Owens, published in 2011, and Rick Owens Furniture, followed by two books about Larry LeGaspi, published by Rizzoli in November 2019. Owens returned to Los Angeles for the first time in 16 years in November 2019 to launch the books.
Rick Owens Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $19 Million.
Rick Owens DRKSHDW – Labels
Rick Owens, DRKSHDW, Rick Owens Lilies, Slab (Defunct), and HUNRICKOWENS were among his five labels (previously “Palais Royal”). He collaborated with Birkenstock in 2018 and Veja, a French sneaker brand, in 2019. The latter collaboration lasted five seasons, with the end date set for November 2021. In 2020, Owens will add to this list of collaborations by designing capsules with Moncler and American activewear brand Champion. According to a 2017 interview with WWD, the brand made $120 million the previous year. In the same interview, Owens stated that his label intended to remain independent of corporate investment. Owens dedicated his 2019 fashion show to Larry LeGaspi, whom he regards as his creative forefather. Gaspi debuted in his fall and winter 2019 women’s runway collection.
Rick Owens Dunk
Owens debuted these sneakers in his Fall/Winter 2006 collection “Dustulator,” alongside an unreleased “Cut-Out” women-exclusive version of the Dunks, which were made famous by Russian supermodel Sasha Pivoravova, who wore them in a photoshoot. Due to the scarcity of these samples, existing pairs have commanded exorbitant resell prices. The sides of these Dunks feature a distinctive detail resembling the Nike Swoosh, a reversed rendition of the Puma stripe, and Adidas’ three stripes as a stitching detail behind the “swoosh” applique. The Shearling/Nubuck Dunk debuted in the SS06 collection, followed by the “Dustulator” Dunk in the FW06 collection. According to legend, Nike sent a cease-and-desist letter to the designer in order to halt production of the Dunks, and Owens later stated in an interview that the letter made him “swoon.”
Rick Owens Career
Owens debuted his fashion line in 1994, with a store on Hollywood Boulevard. He relocated to Paris in 2003 with his companion Michèle Lamy, whom he married in 2006, and established his home and atelier inside a historic five-story building that once housed former French President François Mitterrand’s offices. Since then, his runway collections have been displayed in Paris. Owens and Michèle Lamy founded their own fashion company, Owenscorp, in 2004, and described their partnership as “asking a gypsy to organize a war with a fascist.”
Owens exhibited his ‘Prehistoric’ collection at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London in 2013. Owens’ color palette in this seven-piece collection ranges from white to black, with no stops in between. Owens received the 2002 Perry Ellis Award for emerging talent and the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. She also received the Cooper-Hewitt Design Award for fashion design and the Fashion Group International Rule Breaker Award in 2007. On December 15, 2017, his first museum exhibition and retrospective, titled “Subhuman Inhuman Superhuman,” opened at the Triennale di Milano, chronicling over 20 years of his life’s work. Owens was named Menswear Designer of the Year at the 2019 Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Fashion Awards in June 2019.