In Paris, Designers Look for a Stranger Kind of Beauty

Is it possible that after all this time, beauty standards have only gotten more standardized? After the Rick Owens show yesterday, the designer mused in a video interview for SSENSE that his collection was about “celebrating exoticism.” He said, “When I promote exoticism, I am saying, We have other options. The world has such narrow aesthetic parameters.” His ridiculous shoulders—here, peaked like cartoon mountains that suggest anyone who dwells here is villainous—are “a protest to the way the world thinks everything should be. It’s just a little nudge in the direction of thinking about otherness and thinking about opening your… Read Full Article