Rick Owens Quotes

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Rick Owens

Profession : Designer

Birth : November 18, 1961

It's hard for somebody to live with me, I think. I'm very inflexible and that can't be easy.

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If I were living with me, I would get sick and tired of it always being about Rick Owens this, Rick Owens that.

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Relationships are compromises.

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I really learned not to think about what other people like. The other thing I've learned recently is not to look at sales reports.

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I like the idea of promoting alternative ideas of beauty.

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The fashion world can be very strict on the standards of beauty, and I like pushing it around a little bit. I like teasing those ideas a little bit, by promoting quieter kinds of beauty.

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I don't always know exactly what's right, but I know what's wrong a lot. I can usually define that.

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I am always going to be beating myself up and then forgiving myself afterwards for beating myself up, and then getting on myself for letting myself beat myself up... I'm very busy. Very, very busy.

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I think in times of hardship, you have to step up your game and fight back, and creating is the strongest way to do that.

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I've always been very skeptical about the collab situation. Under the worst circumstances, it's an obvious marketing gimmick.

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I do think that I am making efforts to balance out conservative energy, and the false morality and judgmental attitude that I've always felt uncomfortable with. I do like to tease that. Maybe bring a little karmic balance. But I mean it in the most playful way - not antagonistic, not hostile.

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The world can be really uptight.

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Well, I try not to think about my visibility or where I stand in the fashion world. Because that's just never going to be a comfortable space. I just like to stick to my thing. I'm trying to do something I believe in.

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At a certain point in his life, when he reaches a level of stature, a man commissions his portrait to go over the fireplace. It's a classical tradition, but I thought I'd do it in wax because that's funnier. It's my Dorian Gray moment.

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I like classicism. I like historic reference. I like something new with something almost ancient.

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I like discipline and the idea of restraint.

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There is a dark side to the world that we're all familiar with - and you can choose to ignore it and create a sugar-coated, Disney version, or you can acknowledge both the beautiful and the dark.

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The reading I did do that stuck with me was usually somewhat breathless and brittle - I suppose camp. But my definition of camp has always been authentic sentiment disguised in artifice.

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There's something almost heroic in defining and committing to a life decision that will be transcendent and final.

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I get it, I mean, it's easy to categorize somebody. I summarize things quickly, too.

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