Rick Owens - Paris Shop

[nqth]

Rick Owens Enters Next Phase With Paris Shop

By Robert Murphy and Katya Foreman
PARIS — A boxing gym theme with some skulls and bones thrown around for good measure is hardly a typical formula for a designer fashion shop.


extract from wwd.com.

Anyone knows anything, or has the full text please post:-)
Thanks!

 

[nqth]

I think it should be in "shop by designer" indeed:-) bc it is not just about shopping really, and it does not fit in with the other threads in sub-forum. Maybe it is better be in general shopping thread ? I have no clue:-)

 

[Spacemiu]

I always thought if he has a store it would look like some kind of chic sci-fi meets ancient pagan stone temple, but I guess not.

Pictures form ashadedviewonfashion.com

 

[BerlinRocks]

i saw the diane pernet's photos of the shop and it looks like it could be your own dressing. but i would like to know what the movie is on the tv.

 

[Spacemiu]

but i would like to know what the movie is on the tv.

me to

 

[nqth]

thanks for the pics:-)

 

[faust]

Apparently Rick is planning to sell real skulls in there.

From nytimes.com

“The skull was one of the last frontiers,” said Rick Owens, the designer known for his glamorized Goth style. “There’s no way to make yourself edgy anymore.”
Even so, he is planning on selling skulls — real ones — in “natural and black” in his new Paris boutique. “Skulls are kind of timeless,” he said, deadpan as it gets.

 

[thesiren]

i wonder if they'll sell his furniture...

 

[stellabelle]

i love his designs but i have to disagree with his quote about skulls being the last frontier on edginess. i never thought the skull fad was edgy at all. it's too obvious. edgy works better when it's subtle and subversive.

 

[UNiQFashionista]

wait has the store opened already?

 

[faust]

i wonder if they'll sell his furniture...

Looks like the answer is, yes.

from hintmag

[FONT=Arial,sans-serif][SIZE=-1] With the opening of his first store—snugly located in Paris' tony Palais Royal—Rick Owens has come a long way from his former milieu, which he once described to us in a Hinterview as the "super sleazy, crystal, ****** hustler bars just off Hollywood Boulevard." Yet despite the high-rent ambitions, we're happy to report that Owens' new luxe ways aren't far removed from his old louche days. Among the women's and men's collections, jeans, shoes and bags, as well as his furs for Revillon and pieces from his new furniture line, one can find "opera DVDs and books on all my favorite scary old queens, like Stephen Tennant, Robert de Montesquiou and Jayne County," not to mention Internet-scavenged human skulls and bones. Displays and seats are made out of cashmere-upholstered plywood crates, recalling, according to Owens, a posh boxing gym from the 1940s as designed by Jean-Michel Frank [the interior designer known for his opulent materials]. And finally, for those with their noses in the air, the American in Paris promises to "always make the store smell good, too." Rick Owens, Jardins du Palais Royal, 130-133 Galerie de Valois, +33 (0) 1 40 20 42 52.[/SIZE][/FONT]