Rick Owens Quotes

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Rick Owens

Profession : Designer

Birth : November 18, 1961

I don't like too many cooks in the kitchen, and I don't like committee decisions.

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People need to collect together and be shoulder to shoulder watching something transcendent. That will happen forever.

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I do Xeroxes of my past collections and then I draw over them to see where I'll go next.

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Fashion will always be 80 percent status. There are going to be different ways of expressing status - intellectual status, financial status.

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Margiela was the perfect example of an anti-status status. He had more status than status. You were saying, 'I'm above status,' when you wore Margiela, which is just another form of status. Even in an atmosphere of humility and responsibility, those who show it will be the most humble of all.

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I'm not a Buddhist, but there is something lovely about thinking of yourself in a bigger picture, and thinking of yourself as part of it.

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There's room for fast fashion, and then there's room for another fashion faction that operates differently.

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I like cheese and ice cream.

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I'm not a foodie.

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I don't like those little places with low ceilings, where everyone tells you the food is wonderful but the bathroom is on the other side of a paper-thin wall. It's disgusting.

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When I'm making furniture I think of timelessness and I think of clothes that way too.

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I've always really admired and championed people who were uncomfortable with the way they were and made a resolve to change it, for better or for worse.

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It takes a certain amount of strength of character to decide you're not satisfied with something and then change it and to change it flamboyantly and ferociously and spectacularly. That just really impressed me.

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Anybody that creates anything is just creating new compositions of things that have existed before. We're all creating something, we're all creating our own personal works of art in ourselves.

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Art is supposed to be some kind of transcendent moment. Fashion has sometimes done that.

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All the women in my life are formidable. I have seen them all step up to handle adversity with grace.

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There will always be conflict forever and how we deal with conflict is what can help define our character.

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Italy is where I create, and Paris is where I am judged.

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I think death is part of all of our lives and everything needs to evolve into something else. Anyway, that's my fatalistic attitude.

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I'm not one of the pessimists who thinks that we're going to destroy the planet. I feel like it's going to evolve into something else, and I think it would be arrogant of us to think that we have that power.

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