Photo: Courtesy of OwensCorp
Earlier this week, Rick Owens opened a new store in Hong Kong, his largest in Asia, which houses his men’s, women’s, and DRKSHDW collections and accessories. As with all things Owens-related, the final product is sleek, thoughtful, and brimming with unexpected details—the most noticeable being a glass-top table supported by a Rick Owens mannequin.
The likeness of the mannequin is so realistic that, from afar, telling the difference between the furniture and the actual man is difficult. It has his signature dark mane, tattoos, and biceps that won him our “Best Arms in Fashion” title last year.
Of the store design, Owens explains, “I’ve designed the store to correspond to a primal ideal I set for myself—quiet emptiness, stone, and light. Walls are concrete blocks custom-molded with an angular Brutalist design I saw on a wall a long time ago in Berlin and never found again. I might have dreamed it. This wall became a mythological image to me of a futuristic utopian ruin.” While he doesn’t comment on the table, it’s worth noting that New York-based artist Bjarne Melgaard’s remakes of Allen Jones’ 1960s furniture, which featured sexy female mannequins serving as chairs, has garnered notable press in recent years.
Photo: Courtesy of OwensCorp
Photo: Courtesy of OwensCorp
—Steff Yotka, Style.com
