Rick Owens Quotations

Sometimes the whole thing cracks me up, it's so absurd,

It's not like I planned on producing it - but I would like it if someone wanted to do a limited edition,

This is like CSI work; you get to go back and try to figure out what happened.

Instead of soft and drape-y, it is a little bit sharper and fitted to the back,

I can't think of too many other fields where you can learn all of this on the job.

I don't even know what's brilliant in fashion anymore. There are too many voices.

I think forums are great. It's a weird thing to overhear a conversation about yourself. But, the bottom line is that these people are really interested; they get the image and they get very opinionated and it turns into squabbles. You know that's human nature, that's life.

You reach a saturation point where people resent having to share you more with people who they think are not as connected and so they end up with a feeling of resentment.

I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.

I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

Fashion can be cruel. Style is a gift to others.

I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it.

Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.

The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool.

People ask why I do monochromatic clothes; the reason is because I'm thinking in proportion to the world. In this room, your head is going to look so much more interesting if it's on a monochromatic column. Whereas I think people think of outfits and gets a little too fussy, a little too detailed. I'm always thinking of the line of a person standing with their head in a room and I always feel like a stalk, or a stem, or a pillar is nicer. I always think of everything architecturally.

The whole fashion thing is so oversaturated.

I like things pretty reduced. I don't understand how people live with so much stuff around them, because you can't focus on it, and after a while it ends up becoming absorbed. It's not as if anything's really being appreciated. To me all that stuff is some desperate message to everyone about who you are, like bumper stickers.

Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is also one of the most attractive things you can do.

I'm really conscious of not doing something just for the sake of moving forward.

Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive.

I want to have fun. And I want to enjoy what I'm doing.

You can't stay in one place. If you stay in one place you die. So you have to move forward.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.

The coolest thing is when you don’t care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac - that’s what really sums up style for me.