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To the Palais-Royal via California
By ERIC WILSON
Published: October 5, 2006
PARIS
Antoine Antoniol for The New York Times
Rick Owens at his new shop in Paris. He was surprised to be noticed.
APART from the time years ago when I heard an American tourist ask for directions to the Arc de Trump, the strangest conversation I heard this week was between a newlywed couple in an elevator. He was whining that they had not had time to go shopping. “I guess it’s never what I want to do,” he said.
Paris is a city that makes you lose your mind when it comes to spending, and in the last couple of years a bunch of new designer stores have opened, remaking stretches of the Rue St.-Honoré in the blocks around Colette. There the old Helmut Lang store is being remade into a Miu Miu, and closer to the Louvre, Brooks Brothers opened this week.
Rick Owens, the California-born designer who has not left Paris in four years, was surprised by the demand he encountered when he opened his first store, in the Jardins du Palais-Royal, in August. (It is on Galerie de Valois, opposite Didier Ludot’s vintage store and a new Marc Jacobs store on Galerie de Montpensier.)
“I always thought this place was so hidden away and discreet,” Mr. Owens said. “I thought we would go out of business in the first month. If I didn’t have Diana Ross land outside in a parachute, I thought, who is going to notice?”
Mr. Owens, 44, took over the space from L’Éclaireur, a fashion shop that carried his clothes, and within a month he was having trouble keeping it full of clothes. On Monday, the morning after his spring show, he was stocking the racks with his intricately sliced and sewn fall jackets, mixed with furs from his collection for Revillon and small square leather handbags.
Upstairs, Mr. Owens has installed his own furniture designs, including a canoe-shape settee constructed of unstained wood, a cashmere cushion and balls of resin on each end, which sparkle like quartz. A small table made of human skulls, snake vertebrae and ostrich eggs was his idea of coquille d’oeuf, an old technique of using eggshells in surface decoration.
Mr. Owens said that as he has become more at ease in Paris, he has accepted his place in its realm of designers, as an outsider working inside the classic French boundaries, in his way.
“I’m a California guy interpreting the heritage of French artifice in a crude American way,” he said. “Now I kind of feel like I have found a little corner where I am comfortable and can do my own thing.”
nytimes.com
By ERIC WILSON
Published: October 5, 2006
PARIS
Antoine Antoniol for The New York Times
Rick Owens at his new shop in Paris. He was surprised to be noticed.
APART from the time years ago when I heard an American tourist ask for directions to the Arc de Trump, the strangest conversation I heard this week was between a newlywed couple in an elevator. He was whining that they had not had time to go shopping. “I guess it’s never what I want to do,” he said.
Paris is a city that makes you lose your mind when it comes to spending, and in the last couple of years a bunch of new designer stores have opened, remaking stretches of the Rue St.-Honoré in the blocks around Colette. There the old Helmut Lang store is being remade into a Miu Miu, and closer to the Louvre, Brooks Brothers opened this week.
Rick Owens, the California-born designer who has not left Paris in four years, was surprised by the demand he encountered when he opened his first store, in the Jardins du Palais-Royal, in August. (It is on Galerie de Valois, opposite Didier Ludot’s vintage store and a new Marc Jacobs store on Galerie de Montpensier.)
“I always thought this place was so hidden away and discreet,” Mr. Owens said. “I thought we would go out of business in the first month. If I didn’t have Diana Ross land outside in a parachute, I thought, who is going to notice?”
Mr. Owens, 44, took over the space from L’Éclaireur, a fashion shop that carried his clothes, and within a month he was having trouble keeping it full of clothes. On Monday, the morning after his spring show, he was stocking the racks with his intricately sliced and sewn fall jackets, mixed with furs from his collection for Revillon and small square leather handbags.
Upstairs, Mr. Owens has installed his own furniture designs, including a canoe-shape settee constructed of unstained wood, a cashmere cushion and balls of resin on each end, which sparkle like quartz. A small table made of human skulls, snake vertebrae and ostrich eggs was his idea of coquille d’oeuf, an old technique of using eggshells in surface decoration.
Mr. Owens said that as he has become more at ease in Paris, he has accepted his place in its realm of designers, as an outsider working inside the classic French boundaries, in his way.
“I’m a California guy interpreting the heritage of French artifice in a crude American way,” he said. “Now I kind of feel like I have found a little corner where I am comfortable and can do my own thing.”
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Love the jacket on you... 
Can't get enough of pictures of it!
Can't get enough of pictures of it!
So, I'm back from Paris and the RO boutique was lovely, but did not have the biker leather jacket in dust. Barbara was nice and was encouraging me to get black ... but I'm obsessed with the dust. She did mention that there are going to be some great jackets for spring in dust.
Here's my jacket from Barney's ... I'm still annoyed about the price difference. Hate feeling like I'm getting ripped off, but I'm not sure if I wanna call around hunting for this thing (have already tried the main carriers). Should I keep it? What do you all think? $2170 (w/o tax) is a lot of money for me - esp. since I came home with a Birkin!
Here's my jacket from Barney's ... I'm still annoyed about the price difference. Hate feeling like I'm getting ripped off, but I'm not sure if I wanna call around hunting for this thing (have already tried the main carriers). Should I keep it? What do you all think? $2170 (w/o tax) is a lot of money for me - esp. since I came home with a Birkin!
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I love that colour Tiger1 - how do you feel about it?? - do you love it totally - does it work with your wardrobe, skintone, etc. do you feel you'll wear it both summer or winter ?? - or everytime you look at it do you feel bad about how much you had to pay for it...? Is it the style you love or simply the colour. I know Dust is a standard RO colour but next season the styles might be different...
I saw a girl with short hair wearing the ubiquitous RO jacket yesterday afternoon browsing the MAC counter in Galeries Lafayette. I was wondering if it was any of you fellow TFSers?? - I know it wouldn't have been you Pucci - the girl was too tall!
It's a great jacket...
I saw a girl with short hair wearing the ubiquitous RO jacket yesterday afternoon browsing the MAC counter in Galeries Lafayette. I was wondering if it was any of you fellow TFSers?? - I know it wouldn't have been you Pucci - the girl was too tall!
It's a great jacket...Thanks for your thoughts, Grill! I totally love the jacket, but see it for fall/winter cuz of the woolly part of the arm. I know they're not coming out with this style next season. The jacket is still hanging unworn in my closet and the more I look at it the more I love it. I'm probably going to keep it, but figure out a way to justify it ... not buying something else I want.
Keep it, love it, wear it to death!
I finally got my act together last year and hunted down a Zeus (the biker one not the one with the weird long bits,) in Dark Shadow and I've pretty much lived in it ever since. It seems to go with most things/colours. The only time I don't wear it is when it's cold and dry and I'm swathed in shearling.
I finally got my act together last year and hunted down a Zeus (the biker one not the one with the weird long bits,) in Dark Shadow and I've pretty much lived in it ever since. It seems to go with most things/colours. The only time I don't wear it is when it's cold and dry and I'm swathed in shearling.
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