The Rick Owenscene Future Is Here

🫧 Open on Bubbles At first I thought the sunblasted video of Rick Owens’ 2027 collection, presented last week on the shadeless place of the Palais de Tokyo in the midst of the 40-degree Saharan omega heatdeath of Europe, felt like a prequel to Mad Max , with stranded club kids trudging through the desert, clinging to the increasingly tenuous expectation that there’ll be a gas station, and it’ll have gas. As I was typing this out, I thought of a rebooted Gerry , Gus Van Sant’s near-wordless exploration of su