Rick Owens Designer Profile- Stylert.com

April 2, 2011 - PRLog -- Rick Owens’s look has been described as glamour meets grunge. Rick Owens is a designer with a extraordinary vision of rock-inspired chic. Rick Owens is an American fashion designer known for his edgy fashions style he is loved by rock stars and people who like to cultivate an avant-garde reputation. With his hallmark looks, asymmetrical dresses, fitted jackets and soft knits makes his recent collections a little more structured—but never conceptual.

Rick Owens was born in California in 1962. Owens studied fine arts at Otis/Parsons (now known as Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles Owens and New York for two years before a pattern-making class led him to drop out and work for some local companies that produced sportswear and inexpensive imitations of designer clothing. His own label, he created in 1994 found a following, selling exclusively to Charles Gallay, a pioneering Los Angeles retailer who kept Owens in business for several years. It was in 2002, when he won the CFDA's New Talent award and moved to Paris, that the label well and truly exploded onto the fashion scene.

Courtney Love, Bill Kaulitz from Tokio Hotel, Madonna and Helena Bonham Carter are the celebrities who have been wearing his clothes. Patricia Field used some of his pieces to create a fashion-forward look for Emily Blunt's character in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada. The opening of his first shop in the Palais Royal, in Paris, also debuted his furniture range as well as his various clothing lines from the younger and more affordable Lillies and the denim range named DRKSHDW to the very exclusive fur collection Palais Royal. His second store in New York's TriBeCa opened in the summer of 2008 with plans of further expansion. In the May 2010 LA Times Magazine Owens dressed basketball superstar, Kobe Bryant.

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