Rick Owens

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Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Work Out
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The coolest thing is when you don’t care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac - that’s what really sums up style for me.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Style
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You can't stay in one place. If you stay in one place you die. So you have to move forward.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Moving
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Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is also one of the most attractive things you can do.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Attractive Things
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People ask why I do monochromatic clothes; the reason is because I'm thinking in proportion to the world. In this room, your head is going to look so much more interesting if it's on a monochromatic column. Whereas I think people think of outfits and gets a little too fussy, a little too detailed. I'm always thinking of the line of a person standing with their head in a room and I always feel like a stalk, or a stem, or a pillar is nicer. I always think of everything architecturally.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Thinking
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The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Aphrodisiac
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Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Simple
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Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Fashion
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Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Landscape
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I like things pretty reduced. I don't understand how people live with so much stuff around them, because you can't focus on it, and after a while it ends up becoming absorbed. It's not as if anything's really being appreciated. To me all that stuff is some desperate message to everyone about who you are, like bumper stickers.
- Rick Owens
Collection: People
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Fashion can be cruel. Style is a gift to others.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Fashion
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The whole fashion thing is so oversaturated.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Fashion
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I want to have fun. And I want to enjoy what I'm doing.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Fun
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I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Together
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I'm really conscious of not doing something just for the sake of moving forward.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Moving
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I don't even know what's brilliant in fashion anymore. There are too many voices.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Fashion
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I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake
- Rick Owens
Collection: Queens
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I think forums are great. It's a weird thing to overhear a conversation about yourself. But, the bottom line is that these people are really interested; they get the image and they get very opinionated and it turns into squabbles. You know that's human nature, that's life.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Thinking
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I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Fashion
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I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Listening
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You reach a saturation point where people resent having to share you more with people who they think are not as connected and so they end up with a feeling of resentment.
- Rick Owens
Collection: Thinking